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Cisco Intersight

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108 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Cisco Intersight?

Cisco Intersight is an operations platform that helps IT operations teams control and automate Cisco UCS, converged, and hyperconverged infrastructure. Intersight consolidates and automates infrastructure lifecycle management from data centers to the edge in one solution delivered as-a-service.

Categories & Use Cases

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the Intersight dashboard, which provides out-of-the box summaries of real-time health and performance data across data center and edge infrastructure. Users can customize the dashboard with a library of widgets to quickly see information that's most important to them.
the security advisories and field notices that alert users about endpoint devices in their environment that are impacted along with recommended resolution.
the Topology Views that let users quickly identify any UCS domain connectivity issues thorugh a visual representation.
an example of the automated workflows that users can create, using Intersight's drag-and-drop workflow designer and library of tasks and workflows.
an example of the aggregated and visualized metrics that are collected for fabric interconnects, chassis, and servers to monitor devices, optimize performance, identify bottlenecks, and proactively address any potential issues.

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Intersight - what it means and how to benefit as a customer

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Mitch Kumar (CCIE-DC)View profile
Sr Solutions Architect in Customer Service at Froedtert Health (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Use Intersight to manage and monitor our large foot print of Cisco UCS blades and rack servers. It is one view dash.

Pros

  • Able to provision pools and policies and provision server workloads quickly and easily.

Cons

  • able to include third party servers and devices
  • send alerts on critical events and as resources are depleted and under utilized.
  • SaaS solution that is the best of breed.
  • easily able to alerts of pro-active errors

Return on Investment

  • ROI is much better
  • easy to provision new servers
  • get alerts on critical items

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365

Cisco Intersight review

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Patrick Bullard
Sr Systems Engineer in Information Technology at Centene Corporation (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cisco Intersight is now our primary pane of glass for managing our fabric interconnects and compute nodes.

Pros

  • Flexibility in provisioning systems
  • Ability to integrate workflows from Terraform
  • Always seems highly available

Cons

  • Navigation to and from objects does not feel as intuitive as UCS Central
  • Reduce the number of shallow discoveries upon policy application
  • Provide better insight into roadblocks when upgrading firmware on Fabric Interconnects

Other Software Used

VMware ESXi

Cisco Intersight review

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Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are just beginning to migrated from UCS Central to Cisco Intersight. We will be using it to manage our UCS Infrastructure.

Pros

  • Modern console
  • Fully supported
  • Latest technology

Cons

  • Support more features for UCSM mode FI's
  • More robust migration tools

Return on Investment

  • A positive image is now being able to deploy the latest supported systems
  • A negative image is the time and effort to move to Cisco Intersight from UCS Central

Alternatives Considered

Cisco UCS Manager

Other Software Used

Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued), Cisco UCS Series, Cisco UCS Manager

Cisco Intersight Makes life easy

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Ganesh Doddi
Infrastructure Designer in Information Technology at Bupa (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cisco Intersight to manage our UCS and Hyperflex clusters.

From Operations and management perspective it's a single pane to centrally manage all our clusters both DC and remote including HX clusters. Deploy, build and manage in single pane.

Pros

  • Raising Cisco TAC cases
  • Deploy HX clusters
  • Build HX clusters
  • Centralised Service profiles

Cons

  • Downloading software directly with 1 credentials

Return on Investment

  • Very good impact as we could setup monitoring and automation from Cisco Intersight itself

Alternatives Considered

Cisco UCS Manager

Other Software Used

Cisco UCS Manager

Cisco Intersight

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Gerald Pellegrini
Infrastructure Architect in Information Technology at MED-EL (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Cisco Intersight with a Cisco UCS Blade 9K for configuration and monitoring.

Pros

  • Configuring via Powershell
  • Change configuration
  • Updates

Cons

  • Monitoring
  • Usability via the GUI
  • Mobile App

Return on Investment

  • Positive security implementation
  • Negative lack of monitoring

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