Cisco Intersight vs Vagrant

Likelihood to Recommend

Cisco Intersight is very well suited for doing firmware upgrades across all of your cisco hardware. So far we have had no problems pushing out new firmware. It's also well suited for hardware management. Cisco TAC has the ability to pull logs for the IMC for themselves, which saves you from having to pull the logs yourself and then uploading them to the case. It may or may not be appropriate for upgrading operating systems. I have not been able to test it.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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I would recommend this tool to a colleague looking to create a repeatably deployable local dev environment based on their staging and production environments. I would recommend this mostly for individuals or teams requiring environments with server-side software such as php, et al. There are likely less processor-heavy and smaller tools for simpler projects.

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Brendon Brown

Front End Developer / Marketing Technologist

Island City MediaRetail, 1-10 employees

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Pros

Accessible from anywhere online.
Cisco is always adding new functionality.
Easy to learn and use on a daily basis.

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Professional in Information Technology

Airlines/Aviation Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Vagrant is decentralized so anyone can make a container package to get a project started. you aren't limited to wordpress, or even one style of wordpress install (you can make a sage.io wordpress environment).
Vagrant easily lets you set ports and URLs for local development.
I have yet to have a problem with Vagrant, as opposed to MAMP and DesktopServer, which both gave me SQL or other issues.

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Collin Berg

Freelance Web Developer

SJI Associates | Design & AdvertisingMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

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Cons

Mobile app has some minor display issues.
Most exciting features are still being rolled out.

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Wouter Hindriks

Technical Team Lead Network & Security

Missing Piece BVInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Because Vagrant is a low-level tool with many ways to configure it, there is a steep learning curve. You don't just have to learn (or install) Vagrant, but also Virtualbox, Ansible and possibly some Vagrant plugins to keep boxes up to date.
Support on Windows doesn't seem great. I'm a Mac guy, so it's been very difficult getting things to work as expected when a developer wants to work on Windows.
Perhaps I didn't configure it correctly, but the default shared folders are not the best for performance. There are also frequently weird issues regarding file permissions.

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Andrew Shell

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer

Pinpoint Software, Inc.Internet, 1-10 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Cisco Intersight 8.2

Based on 1 answer

Basic version is free, good functionality now and many interesting things on the roadmap.

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Wouter Hindriks

Technical Team Lead Network & Security

Missing Piece BVInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Vagrant 9.0

Based on 1 answer

Vagrant is fast, versatile and does exactly what we need it to do: spin up virtual servers for local development fast and without trouble.

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Collin Berg

Freelance Web Developer

SJI Associates | Design & AdvertisingMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

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Usability

No score

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Vagrant 5.5

Based on 1 answer

A GUI would be nice for entry level users.

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Hernán Silva

Senior Front-end developer

Velocity PartnersInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees

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Support Rating

Cisco Intersight 8.2

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Because Cisco is actively developing Cisco Intersight.
Because Cisco listens to users of Cisco Intersight and actively develops suggestions and fix issues found.

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Joacim Wicander

Senior Data Center Engineer

Conscia Sweden ABInformation Technology & Services, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We use the Dell OpenManage product previously when we were using Dell servers. Cisco Intersight has much more capabilities than Dell OpenManage had in the past. I haven't used any other product lately which would allow me to compare the features. We use What's up gold for up/down monitoring but It doesn't have the firmware update features.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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I liked lando better because lando seemed extremely easy to setup compared to other VM's and it seemed faster though that project was simpler. Virtualbox I ran on windows and it has a gui and has often been slow. The vagrant boxes I used did well but had slightly more problems than lando.

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Josh Stapp

Sr. Software Engineer

ICF NextComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

Basic Intersight access is free to all Cisco customers.
You can decide what level of functionality fits your needs and budget.

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Verified User

Professional in Information Technology

Airlines/Aviation Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Vagrant is free - It requires a bit of extra technical knowledge in terms of setup, but since it costs nothing it's an excellent resource
It can be time consuming to learn, but once you get a good handle on it you're in good shape.

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Joey Yax

Web Developer

Grady BrittonMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No