We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS Manager and Nutanix Prism based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The reporting functionality will give you any report you want."
"The solution is highly scalable, mainly because of the templates that make it easy for you to actually edit on the system."
"The flexibility and the ease in which the features can be expanded are the solution's most valuable aspects."
"I can deploy something in my 50-odd servers all in one go, in parallel, whereas if I was to do that individually, it could be a nightmare."
"I can quickly manage the provisioned servers."
"The most valuable features are flexibility and management."
"Ease of management is certainly the most valuable feature in this product."
"When one server fails, we can attach the service profile to a new server, which saves a lot of time."
"Prism's best features include the single point of failure (SPOF) and ease of implementation."
"Has a user-friendly UI with a centralized console."
"I like the general usability for general configuration. It is sufficient for everyday operations."
"By using virtualization, we are saving on the cost of hardware."
"The Clone and Snapshot features are two of the most valuable aspects of the solution for our organization. Rather than simply one-click automation the Snapshot and reverse Snapshot are great."
"I don't know how to explain how much time and effort switching to Nutanix HCI has saved us. It's 80 percent more time-efficient and convenient than having to use multiple interfaces to deal with storage and compute in our hypervisor."
"The storage management is one of the best."
"Nutanix is a HCA product and includes VMware called Nutanix Express that has been fantastic for us. We have about 100 plus VMs without any trouble and we have VCDR."
"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."
"I want to be able to schedule multiple sequential updates in one go."
"Its user interface can be improved. It can be more user-friendly."
"The pricing can be better."
"Upgrading the firmware is a difficult procedure."
"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."
"The interface and the way it is constructed is very complex. They should work to simplify it. It's quite difficult for somebody who doesn't know the product very well. Users should be able to get proficient with it faster. There's definitely room for improvement there."
"Nutanix does not support all of the Linux distributions, so we have to use VMware in some cases."
"The pricing could be improved."
"Nutanix Prism can be more stable because it's not as stable as VMware."
"The replication we have does not have any backup systems built-in. We have to separate license records for backup, like onboard. We would like to have this in a future release."
"The three clusters we have at our remote offices are just one-node clusters. If there were an easier way to upgrade items such as the BIOS, SATA drives, the BMC, et cetera, on those, that would be helpful."
"In our environment we are using it alongside VMware, so some integration with that would be nice. VMware has SHD (Skyline Health Diagnostics) which diagnoses health and gives suggestions. A plug-in for taking information out of it would be helpful."
"There is a bug with the HTML5 interface."
"There are some things that you can only do via the command line. Over the years that I've been using Nutanix, they've slowly integrated those into Prism, but they're still trying to catch up with a solution that has been around longer, like VMware."
Cisco UCS Manager is ranked 30th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 21 reviews while Nutanix Prism is ranked 4th in Virtualization Management Tools with 57 reviews. Cisco UCS Manager is rated 8.0, while Nutanix Prism is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Cisco UCS Manager writes "Stable and resilient, but slightly more complicated to deploy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Prism writes "Having a centralized platform for infrastructure information has helped us with capacity planning". Cisco UCS Manager is most compared with Cisco Intersight, HPE OneView, Zabbix, Datadog and ServiceNow IT Operations Management, whereas Nutanix Prism is most compared with Zabbix, VMware Aria Operations, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), Veeam ONE and HPE OneView. See our Cisco UCS Manager vs. Nutanix Prism report.
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