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Cisco UCS Manager vs NetApp Cloud Insights comparison

Cisco and NetApp are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. Cisco is ranked #16 with an average rating of 8.7, while NetApp is ranked #33 with an average rating of 8.8. Cisco holds a 1.4% mindshare in IM, compared to NetApp’s 0.2% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Cisco users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of NetApp users who would recommend it.
Cisco UCS Manager
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96% willing to recommend
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100% willing to recommend
 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Cisco UCS Manager and NetApp Cloud Insights compete in the cloud and network management category. Cisco UCS Manager has the upper hand in environments needing advanced security and virtualization integration, whereas NetApp Cloud Insights leads in analytics and visualization, offering deep multi-platform visibility.

Features: Cisco UCS Manager offers flexibility, strong integration for virtualization environments, and is favored for its hardware customization capabilities. NetApp Cloud Insights provides advanced analytics, multi-environment visualization, and the ability to resolve complex issues in multi-tiered systems efficiently.

Room for Improvement: Cisco UCS Manager should enhance user-friendliness, cross-platform management, and simplify firmware upgrades, which may require extensive training. NetApp Cloud Insights could improve its reporting functions, simplifying the licensing model, and easing navigation for complex system aspects.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Cisco UCS Manager is best suited for on-premises deployment, supported by reliable technical support but demands expertise to manage. NetApp Cloud Insights offers deployment flexibility across private, public, and hybrid clouds with generally good support, though inconsistencies are noted in Europe vs. the US.

Pricing and ROI: Cisco UCS Manager is expensive but valuable for enterprise solutions with Cisco bundles, offering cost-effectiveness due to stability. NetApp Cloud Insights has competitive pricing with scalable options, but the licensing is complex. ROI is favorable for both, though Cisco may be costly for smaller companies while NetApp provides a scalable model appealing for those avoiding upfront costs.

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Categories and Ranking

Cisco UCS Manager
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
16th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
27
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
NetApp Cloud Insights
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
33rd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Migration (10th), Cloud Monitoring Software (24th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of Cisco UCS Manager is 1.4%, down from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp Cloud Insights is 0.2%, down from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Edwin Mwosa - PeerSpot reviewer
Enhanced network oversight with rapid issue identification and good efficiency
We mainly use Cisco UCS Manager to integrate and manage our Cisco switches across the building. We also utilize it for network integration. It provides an integrated solution for our Cisco environment, streamlining our operations and managing multiple Cisco devices like switches and routers Cisco…
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Scott Lauters - PeerSpot reviewer
It provides a single pane of glass, giving us visibility into the environment
All our production clusters are in Cloud Insight. It provides a single pane of glass, giving us visibility into the environment, which allows us to understand if any issues are going on across any of our clusters. The main issue we were looking to address was the lack of visibility across all the clusters in one single view. We're using Cloud Insight's Unified Manager. It has improved our ability to support and see the immediate status of the entire environment. If we have a critical incident, we can quickly see these issues and loop in monitoring teams and other teams. For example, if our app team thinks there are issues in the environment, we can quickly see if anything related to storage is part of the problem. It improved our organization by unifying all the various support teams. We all have the same view of what's happening in the environment. The dev team knows what storage is used or not, and we can quickly move on to other activities. Cloud Insights provides a single tool for containers and other cloud-based architectures, but we're not using some of those things, such as Kubernetes. We're primarily leveraging the monitoring and reporting. The solution does a great job of inventorying our resources. It allows us to put the tags on the devices. The process is fast. It also gives you the dependencies. I can dig down into all the related components. Cloud Insight's advanced analytics feature does a good job of highlighting the areas where there might be issues in the future.
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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"One of the valuable features is the user interface base."
"The management is one of the most valuable features of this solution."
"Cisco UCS Manager is recommended for its ease of deployment and management capabilities."
"It is more robust than other solutions. So, the stability is good."
"It's robust."
"The interface is ergonomic and native. We can use UCS Manager to do all the configurations for the servers, including storage, networking, and all the other components we need inside the fabric. It's simple and flexible."
"Technical support has been good so far. We haven't had any issues with them. We're satisfied with the level of service they provide our company."
"The flexibility and the ease in which the features can be expanded are the solution's most valuable aspects."
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"The solution is easy to deploy."
"One feature we appreciate the most is its ability to take snapshots, which adds an extra layer of security and allows us to protect our data effectively."
"Its ability to quickly inventory our resources, figure out interdependencies across them, and assemble a topology of your environment is brilliant. There is a price associated with it. Whenever you target a NetApp environment, it is included in the price but whenever you want to add different vendors, like VMware and Cisco, the price greatly spikes. Inventorization helps us a lot to visualize the environment."
"NetApp Cloud Insights helps reduce the time spent on problem resolution by up to 50% for my customers, making their operations significantly more efficient and productive, which is a perfect outcome."
"The solution is 98 percent stable."
"The visibility and assistance with security vulnerabilities are valuable."
"All our production clusters are in Cloud Insight. It provides a single pane of glass, giving us visibility into the environment, which allows us to understand if any issues are going on across any of our clusters."
"Cloud Secure is definitely the most valuable feature and being able to see file level activity. It gives real-time alerting on possible ransomware attacks and provides file security review. It helps us to see if something abnormal is happening on the system before it's too late."
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Cons

"Improving functionalities similar to InterSite within UCS Manager would be beneficial."
"There is room for improvement in terms of cost and complexity to set up. It doesn't work straight out of the UCS, so someone who knows what they're doing is needed immediately, and it can be quite confusing."
"We have three data centers and if we could manage all three data centers using one interface, it would be great."
"Cisco UCS Manager is not a scalable solution because once you have 160 blades, it cannot be expanded more."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements made to their security."
"The primary challenge we face is identifying the correct version to deploy during firmware upgrades or compute updates."
"I want to be able to schedule multiple sequential updates in one go."
"What's lacking in Cisco UCS Manager is the performance dashboard. If a blade has any performance issues, you should be able to create a dashboard on Cisco UCS Manager. Currently, this feature isn't present."
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"There is room for improving the creating and managing or modifying of reports. That is still a difficult task to do and requires knowledge beyond the storage itself. I would love to see reporting improved so that we can create reports by dragging and dropping pieces into a report form and publish a report that way."
"In my opinion, one area where NetApp Cloud Insights could be improved for the next release is the console, which I find a bit complex."
"In a perfect world we would have something built, right out-of-the-box, that can identify what we call "noise," and reduce the amount of data. You're presented with so much data when you first start the data collectors. For example, it brings back a lot of change rates that happen just because of standard computing, like profile changes and that sort of thing. Being able to identify things like that and categorize them and strip it down—and it probably can do that, I just haven't gotten there yet—would be very beneficial."
"The visualization needs some improvement because there are occasional delays while the system queries information."
"The support is not very quick."
"Cloud Insights could offer more detail when we drill down into the Azure environment."
"Ease of reporting is one thing that they're trying to tackle. If you have a specific set of data you want from Cloud Insights, you can ask NetApp to help you build the reports from the ground up. The dashboards are intuitive, but finding the report you want is sometimes a challenge. If you don't have the report already loaded, pulling it in and letting it build its data can be cumbersome."
"The IP-based monitoring could be added in a future release."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Cisco UCS is more expensive than Dell and HP, but it is more reliable. I see less issues and it's quite stable."
"Cisco UCS Manager’s annual licensing fee is expensive."
"The pricing for Cisco UCS Manager is okay for its market, so it's a four out of five for me."
"With product discounts which can be negotiated, the product is a great value."
"You buy the hardware and then you get Cisco UCS Manager for free."
"We need to take a license for each port, which amounts to a big sum."
"Be aware of the capacity licensing and understand how that works, because it is based on capacity. Getting an understanding of that is the biggest thing."
"The licensing is complex. The calculation depends on what you're ingesting. A terabyte of one product is not a terabyte of another product. Virtual machines don't equate so easily. It's all about the end-use managed units and having an easy place to reference how far those units go."
"We are billed based on management units, so we can purchase units based on six months, twelve months, twenty-four months, or thirty-six months upfront or pay as you go depending on our requirements."
"The solution's pricing is based on the device you purchase and includes support services."
"The licensing model could be improved. We love that you can use it for free for looking at NetApp products. You only need licenses to look at non-NetApp products, but as soon as you do that, you start utilizing licenses that actually would have been free in the public. So, there is a bit of an anomaly in the licensing model."
"The solution is expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
24%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
7%
Manufacturing Company
33%
Computer Software Company
22%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Healthcare Company
5%
 

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Cisco UCS Manager?
When one server fails, we can attach the service profile to a new server, which saves a lot of time.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cisco UCS Manager?
My experience with the pricing of Cisco UCS Manager ( /products/cisco-ucs-manager-reviews ) is that it is reasonable. Recently, we acquired an excellent bundle with significant discounts, with offe...
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What needs improvement with Cisco UCS Manager?
For improvements, while the current graphical user interface is satisfactory, it could be further simplified for different tasks. While it has been improved from using Java to HTML, simplifying the...
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What do you like most about NetApp Cloud Insights?
NetApp Cloud Insights helps with login monitoring and troubleshooting. Previously, if we had performance concerns or needed to interface with other groups and their products, a task that should req...
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetApp Cloud Insights?
The licensing is complex. The calculation depends on what you're ingesting. A terabyte of one product is not a terabyte of another product. Virtual machines don't equate so easily. It's all about t...
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What needs improvement with NetApp Cloud Insights?
In my opinion, one area where NetApp Cloud Insights could be improved for the next release is the console, which I find a bit complex. Even though I work with NetApp, it still takes time for me to ...
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Overview

Cisco UCS Manager helps significantly reduce management and administration expenses by automating routine tasks to increase operational agility. Customers can extend the benefits of Cisco UCS Manager globally across an enterprise to thousands of servers in multiple domains with Cisco UCS Central Software.
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NetApp Cloud Insights is an infrastructure monitoring tool that gives you visibility into your complete infrastructure. With Cloud Insights, you can monitor, troubleshoot and optimize all your resources including your public clouds and your private data centers.

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