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Cisco UCS Director vs VMware Aria Suite comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Cisco UCS Director
Average Rating
7.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Management (22nd)
VMware Aria Suite
Average Rating
9.6
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

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Senior Telecommunications Engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Managing extensive VoIP services becomes efficient and seamless
We use Cisco UCS Director primarily for managing our VoIP service to maintain seamless service delivery. We operate in an enterprise government environment Cisco UCS Director is straightforward to use, which we greatly appreciate. It helps save time by making it quicker to roll out new call…
it_user224100 - PeerSpot reviewer
SSIO Infrastructure Engineer at Wyndham Destination Network - RCI Europe
Key benefits include the ability to identify resource usage and hot spots.
I have been using Operations Manager for the last few months since reviewing my licence structure and procuring the Enterprise Plus, management bundle. Having a number of distributed vSphere environments spread across the UK and Europe has presented a number of challenges in terms of centralised alerting and reporting. With my collections all configured I am now able to receive invaluable information quickly - reducing the labour that was previously causing issues. Key benefits:- * Ability to identify resource usage and hot spots * Understand where I can reclaim resources * Trend and forecast my virtual landscape by adding projects

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The improvement for our organization has really been ease of use; we'd be a mess without the solution."
"Cisco's knowledge base is extensive."
"Without UCS Director it wouldn't be possible for us to go from receiving shipments at a data center to having systems live in production in a matter of days, or sometimes hours, instead of waiting weeks."
"This is a user-friendly solution that is very good and easy to use."
"Overall, I think that this is a very good product, although nothing is perfect."
"An easy and strong configuration, along with its low cost, are some of the features of the solution."
"As usual, the technical support from Cisco is amazing."
"I would recommend this solution to others because it simplifies a lot of tasks via orchestration."
"I found the ease of use with Operations Manager Dashboard and providing complete visibility of your infrastructure most valuable."
"With my collections all configured I am now able to receive invaluable information quickly, reducing the labour that was previously causing issues."
"Thanks guys – you managed to turn around an extremely frustrating experience into something more positive."
"This is our lifeblood, our ability to be pro-active instead of retroactive, and without it, it hurts our bottom line."
 

Cons

"The product's pricing needs to improve."
"The tool should be a lot more intuitive and make it easy for us to understand and migrate."
"There could be an improvement with the integration with the newest solutions from other vendors' technologies."
"There aren’t any areas of improvement that immediately come to mind."
"There could be an improvement with the integration with the newest solutions from other vendors' technologies."
"I would like to see more flexibility when it comes to managing other stacks, like VMware virtualization."
"We cannot depend on this solution to manage all of the data center's infrastructure."
"Normally, UCS Director is used primarily for orchestration, but when we look at a non-Cisco data infrastructure components, the UCS Director needs a bit more improvement in terms of integration with third-party systems and with existing older systems."
"I would like to see the vrealize Suite support the Mcrosoft Azure"
"I would like the reporting function to be made more complete."
"It’s hardly the most streamlined deployment experience is it? It’s ironic that an application designed to orchestrate operations can’t orchestrate its installation a bit better!"
"It has color coding to an extent, but it needs more colors to tag more diversely."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost of this solution is significant."
"On a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price and ten is a high price, I rate the pricing around five to six out of ten."
"The budget doesn’t work for the state and local governments."
"I would rate the product's pricing an eight out of ten."
"I rate Cisco UCS Director's price a three out of ten. Cisco UCS Director is not an affordable product. With Cisco UCS Director, there is a need to pay an overall price, which consists of the product, software, and support."
"Cisco UCS Director is expensive...I rate the solution's pricing a three out of ten."
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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company
19%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Marketing Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
7%
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Company Size

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Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise11
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Large Enterprise3
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cisco UCS Director?
While the pricing might be seen as expensive, it provides value for money due to reliable service and excellent technical support.
What needs improvement with Cisco UCS Director?
It should be more of a cloud-based architecture for Cisco UCS Director, and it should be affordable to small customers as well because the pricing is a major challenge when we talk about Cisco UCS ...
What is your primary use case for Cisco UCS Director?
Mainly in my region and country, large data center customers are using Cisco UCS Director, not the SMB or mid-market customers. More of the on-premise customers are utilizing Cisco UCS Director. Th...
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