We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS Manager and SolarWinds NPM 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."What I like most about Cisco UCS Manager is the ease of administration. It also allows the central management of maintenance, installation, and configuration activities."
"I can quickly manage the provisioned servers."
"The management is one of the most valuable features of this solution."
"The hardware is very powerful and it is a stable solution."
"The reporting functionality will give you any report you want."
"It is more robust than other solutions. So, the stability is good."
"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."
"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."
"We found that it was easy to operate, and it was simple if anyone has entry-level working experience or even if someone is not experienced."
"The most important feature is reporting. The reports that are generated are useful and they save a lot of time with respect to monitoring."
"The product is lightweight in terms of memory use, requiring only 10 megabytes or less."
"The product is scalable."
"Being able to easily, and quickly obtain disc space statistics from servers and determine how much was free or used on various volumes."
"The solution ranks as one of the top five monitoring tools."
"I like that SolarWinds NPM is a strong tool for monitoring network devices, switches, and routers. It's also a user-friendly tool. My team also likes how scalable it is."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds NPM is the performance monitoring to see the memory, and CPU utilization."
"Cisco UCS Manager is not a scalable solution because once you have 160 blades, it cannot be expanded more."
"The installation and upgrade sytems need to be improved."
"Getting a CLI report on routers, switches, or any other CLI configuration device is difficult."
"I want to be able to schedule multiple sequential updates in one go."
"The solution's pricing is high and could be reduced."
"We have three data centers and if we could manage all three data centers using one interface, it would be great."
"Cisco UCS is expensive compared to others. The Cisco UCS Chassis is more expensive than a standalone server, but some companies require standalone servers because of their production load and affordability. You need to pay more if you require more features on the Blade or if you need more ports on the switch."
"Its user interface can be improved. It can be more user-friendly."
"A feature I would ask for is for them to have this solution available for Linux systems instead of Windows."
"In terms of scalability, there is room for improvement. When you start monitoring, if you have so many interfaces and you're trying to monitor them at a faster interval, or a shorter interval, you get to a point where you need to request another node."
"I think Solar Winds NPM needs to create a profile with documentation responsibility."
"The solution could improve in many areas, such as the marketing and description of the products, providing areas of improvement, cloud capabilities, and being able to be more streamlined with the current integration points with other applications."
"The solution's network discovery and node addition processes need more work."
"It would be nice to have a test to check if you can access a particular device via API without installing it and waiting for a poll cycle. You should have the capacity to initiate a test to see if it was reachable and get the results almost immediately."
"The tool can only monitor up to 1000 instances in a single SolarWinds console. Customers may have over 1000 instances. Hence, it needs to support a minimum of 1500 instances. It should also improve support."
"They have had a rather large security breach in the past. It's cost some companies customers."
Cisco UCS Manager is ranked 29th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 21 reviews while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 147 reviews. Cisco UCS Manager is rated 8.0, while SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco UCS Manager writes "Used to manage servers, monitor or manage firmware upgrades, and push policies". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". Cisco UCS Manager is most compared with Cisco Intersight, Nutanix Prism, HPE OneView, Zabbix and Datadog, whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and Entuity. See our Cisco UCS Manager vs. SolarWinds NPM report.
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