We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS Manager and WhatsUp Gold 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."Cisco UCS has different layers of security, and you can do multiple installations of your LIAMs on top of the server and Blade. You can install VMware, Windows Server, Hyper-V, etc."
"The management is one of the most valuable features of this solution."
"It is more robust than other solutions. So, the stability is good."
"Cisco UCS Manager is overall a good package because it gives a GUI interface and a CLI."
"From a usability and functionality perspective, Cisco UCS Manager is very good."
"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."
"We can configure the Cisco UCS Manager, the profiles and interactions with the resource we manage."
"The flexibility and the ease in which the features can be expanded are the solution's most valuable aspects."
"It is easy to access and discover devices, as well as monitor them automatically. The topology discover is also a useful feature."
"This is a good, stable network monitoring solution for devices."
"The interface in the last few years it has been a lot greater, they are much more user-friendly. I like the interface."
"The interactive mapping interface for scrolling, zooming, and drilling down on an element to learn about a network issue is good. When we see a network there will sometimes be a spot that has one link. You can go into a particular part of the topology map, scroll in, and see exactly which module it is."
"I use it on premises to monitor my network database. We monitor the link up/down and use the SNMP traps as well."
"The most valuable feature of WhatsUp Gold is NetFlow and the virtualized maps."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of resources."
"NetFlow monitoring, real-time monitoring, and surveys have been the most valuable features for our business."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements made to their security."
"We have three data centers and if we could manage all three data centers using one interface, it would be great."
"Getting a CLI report on routers, switches, or any other CLI configuration device is difficult."
"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."
"I would like to see Cisco UCS optionally work as a hyper-converged system because right now, it only operates as a converged system."
"The installation and upgrade sytems need to be improved."
"The solution's pricing is high and could be reduced."
"The pricing can be better."
"Adding on services increases the cost and on the version we have there is no option for ATM monitoring."
"We can never achieve or get a good picture of the network topology."
"The new release cadence needs to be improved. It takes a while for them to add new features and functionality. There should be a quicker turnaround with new versions."
"I would like to see them do an enhancement to the application monitoring. A lot of other products do better application monitoring so they should do some improvements to the application monitoring."
"The pricing for this solution has gone up quite recently, which has led some of our customers to buy an alternative product."
"I might like to see a better interface in the future."
"The product is old and not updated."
"Importing the maps and being able to customize them could be easier."
Cisco UCS Manager is ranked 29th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 21 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 30th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 22 reviews. Cisco UCS Manager is rated 8.0, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.8. 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 WhatsUp Gold writes "If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue". Cisco UCS Manager is most compared with Cisco Intersight, Nutanix Prism, HPE OneView, Zabbix and Datadog, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Grafana, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, PRTG Network Monitor and Nagios XI. See our Cisco UCS Manager vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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