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Cisco Intersight

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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.

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Screenshot of 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.
Screenshot of the security advisories and field notices that alert users about endpoint devices in their environment that are impacted along with recommended resolution.
Screenshot of the Topology Views that let users quickly identify any UCS domain connectivity issues thorugh a visual representation.
Screenshot of an example of the automated workflows that users can create, using Intersight's drag-and-drop workflow designer and library of tasks and workflows.
Screenshot of 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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Screenshot of 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.

Who Buys & Uses Cisco Intersight

Cisco Intersight Reviews

What users are saying about Cisco Intersight.
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Pros

  • Centralized management and monitoring of Cisco UCS infrastructure
  • Efficient configuration management via profiles and policy control
  • Streamlined infrastructure provisioning and rapid server deployment

Cons

  • Limited device support for non-UCS Cisco products (e.g., Catalyst, MDS, ThousandEyes)
  • User interface and navigation could be more intuitive
  • Log analysis functionality is not user-friendly

Cisco Intersight rocks

Incentivized
Greg Pires
IT architect in Information Technology at HFSinclair (1001-5000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use CI for all of my network, storage, Cisco UCS to deploy, manage, and configure. CI solves our issues by complex troubleshooting in provides.

Pros

  • monitor all of our infrastructure devices
  • streamlines FI, server, and network configurations

Cons

  • more insight to TOR network gear

Return on Investment

  • speed to deploy

Alternatives Considered

Nutanix AHV

Other Software Used

Nutanix AHV

Cisco Intersight

Incentivized
Bobby Oommen
Sr. Manager in Engineering at NetApp (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use Cisco Intersight for integration with NetApp storage

Pros

  • UCS (unified computing system) management
  • NetApp storage management
  • Automation
  • Network management

Cons

  • In my opinion, there is room for improvement in Cisco Intersight for robust integration with NetApp
  • In my experience, there is room for improvement to integrate D0 (Day Zero) automation into Cisco Intersight for FlexPod

Return on Investment

  • good product for infrastructure management
  • continuous engineering commitment is needed and also do feature parity with other competitive products

Alternatives Considered

Cisco UCS Manager

Excellent Operations Tool

Incentivized
Viral Patel
systems engineer in Information Technology at Schoolsfirst FCU (1001-5000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use Cisco Intersight's Excellent dashboards for monitoring UCS (Unified Computing System) environment

Pros

  • Dashboards
  • Metrics
  • Onboarding

Cons

  • In my opinion, Cisco Intersight has room for improvement with More Metrics
  • In my experience, there is room for improvement in Cisco Intersight with More Target Providers

Return on Investment

  • Positive ROI (return on investment)

Alternatives Considered

Splunk AppDynamics

Other Software Used

Splunk AppDynamics

Cisco Intersight saves marriages

Incentivized
Verified User
Executive in Sales (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use Cisco Intersight to manage and monitor UCS (unified computing system) domains, and Nexus infrastructure. Cisco Intersight supports our day 2 operations and simplifies TAC (Technical Assistance Center) cases and speed to resolution

Pros

  • data collections for tac cases
  • remote monitoring via app
  • management of our UCS domains

Cons

  • Expand its reach to include non-UCS and Nexus. add Catalyst
  • add ThousandEyes
  • add MDS

Return on Investment

  • case resolution
  • cost for advanced licensing is a bit much now

Alternatives Considered

Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller

Other Software Used

Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller, Cisco ThousandEyes, Splunk Enterprise Security

SE review

Incentivized
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (201-500 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Intersight to manager our UCS Servers. We primarily use Intersight to apply firmware updates. We have some older blades that are no longer supported, but we would still like to see them the dashboard. We have a TAC ticket, we always get asked for logs. It would be nice if Intersight would provide, or give access to TAC to get the logs.

Pros

  • its able to provide a single point of glass, for multiple server domains
  • It makes it a lot easier to apply firmware to servers

Cons

  • show legacy devices, if they are not supported
  • make it easier to provide support logs to TAC for open tickets
  • provide steps on common tasks like importing and exporting profiles

Return on Investment

  • it has improved the time required to upgrade firmware

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