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Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service

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What is Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service?

Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service (IIS) is an infrastructure lifecycle management solution that helps IT operations teams manage their compute, storage, and networking infrastructure—wherever it is—all from one place. Designed for Cisco UCS and HyperFlex customers, Cisco IIS…

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What is Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service?

Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service (IIS) is an infrastructure lifecycle management solution that helps IT operations teams manage their compute, storage, and networking infrastructure—wherever it is—all from one place. Designed for Cisco UCS and HyperFlex customers, Cisco IIS simplifies…

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What is Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service?

Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service (IIS) is an infrastructure lifecycle management solution that helps IT operations teams manage their compute, storage, and networking infrastructure—wherever it is—all from one place. Designed for Cisco UCS and HyperFlex customers, Cisco IIS simplifies infrastructure management to help teams deliver outstanding digital experiences. IIS can be used to operate with consistency and control, strengthen an organization's security posture, and increase energy efficiency.

Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service Features

  • Supported: Infrastructure lifecycle management
  • Supported: Security advisories and custom field notices
  • Supported: Compliance (policies and templates)
  • Supported: Automation and workflow orchestration
  • Supported: Server power management
  • Supported: Converged infrastructure support
  • Supported: Personalized dashboard
  • Supported: Automated support

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Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android

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Frequently Asked Questions

Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service (IIS) is an infrastructure lifecycle management solution that helps IT operations teams manage their compute, storage, and networking infrastructure—wherever it is—all from one place. Designed for Cisco UCS and HyperFlex customers, Cisco IIS simplifies infrastructure management to help teams deliver outstanding digital experiences. IIS can be used to operate with consistency and control, strengthen an organization's security posture, and increase energy efficiency.

HPE Greenlake, VMware vSAN, and Dell APEX Data Storage Services are common alternatives for Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service.

Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 8.5.

The most common users of Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Joacim Wicander | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it as a tool to help customers with their management and operations of Cisco servers. With Cisco Intersight we don't need to have a VPN to the customer to be able to help with the management of operations of the servers. We also use it to deploy IKS (kubernetes) clusters at customers private cloud and in our lab
  • TAC cases
  • Remote management
  • Life cycle management
  • HCL
  • Installation and upgrades for Cisco Hyperflex
  • Kubernetes
  • IWE, beeds to be able to handle not just IKS virtual machines
For me as a consultant with many customers running Cisco Servers in their DC, Cisco Intersight helps me and the customer to install/maintain and troubleshoot these servers without me being on-site or via VPN. The connected TAC functionality is the best part of Cisco Intersight today. You can directly from Intersight create a TAC case and the upload of the tech support files is done automatically so we don't have to do this manually. This is not only for Cisco Servers anymore—I learned this last week—but you can use it for Cisco ACI, and the upload of the tech support files if/when you are creating TAC cases. This requires Cisco ACI version 4.2
  • Because Cisco Intersight is free (basic license), we can get customers on board very easily.
  • Easier to sell Cisco Servers.
I don't know of any product that is competing with Cisco Intersight, so I haven't been able to do a comparison.
Because Cisco is actively developing Cisco Intersight. Because Cisco listens to users of Cisco Intersight and actively develops suggestions and fix issues found.
Yes
UCS Director, UCS Manager for new Fabric Interconnects, Hyperflex Installer VM and Hyperflex Witness for Hyperflex Edge clusters
Documentation is superb and it is always updated after suggestions
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I used Cisco Intersight in my research environment to manage firmware and easily deploy code from the cloud. It's a great tool to manage many things in one package, and Stony Brook benefitted from it greatly. In the past, many up-to-date versions of firmware would sit on computers, and nobody would know where or who had it. It's also great to know that Ciscos SaaS products are always secure.
  • SaaS cloud code management and deployment.
  • It is secure.
  • Driven by APIs.
  • I liked everything.
IT, research, inventory. It could be well suited almost anywhere except home, but the support is really good, so it's easy to make it work anywhere. The VMs are particularly helpful in my field of research, and many tedious or mundane tasks are made super easy on this platform. It does what it aims to do well and more!
  • Quicker workflow.
  • Productivity and happier workers.
  • More time for real research.
Support for this platform is unmatched. I've used only a couple of other platforms, honestly, but Cisco Intersight's support system really works, and they do a great job. Any issue I've had was solved in a timely manner with a polite representative who cared about helping me and not just plainly reading off of a script that doesn't actually help. I rate it well.
I don't know why I need to write 50 words, but the usability is great. Everything is generally intuitive, and I never spent a long time looking for what I needed.
Gerardo Huerta Robles | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In our case Cisco Intersight was integrated with Cisco UCS manager solution, we can monitor and manage server remotely which is crucial for our operation. We have end customer services running on our organization and that critical data center operations need to be up the most time of the year. We get notifications of use for our servers, an advantage only possible through Cisco Intersight.
  • Remote infrastructure monitoring.
  • Health servers notifications.
  • Automation tasks.
  • A better documentation of use.
  • More scenarios of examples.
  • Integration with third-party servers.
It is well suited for environments where applications are crucial to be up the most time possible. If you are running web services app and you want to monitor resources and automate tasks like assign CPU and RAM to specific VM this is for you. I think scenarios where it is less appropriate should be scenarios where you have standalone severs and these are saturated with VM that if you decrease the RAM or CPU to add it to another one would cause a disaster, but the advantage is the remote monitoring from everywhere.
  • Better resource manage.
  • Monitoring 24/7 from everywhere.
  • Less workload for operators.
It is a 24/7 service but unfortunately the Spanish service needs to incorporate more Spanish engineers.
Very friendly GUI, the provisioning system is fast, you can add servers as soon as you have the dashboard and all running up. Workload optimizer have an intuitive interface you can design and deploy workflows for specific apps.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cisco Intersight is used to provide visibility into our Cisco UCS footprint which spans across numerous data centers across the globe. Intersight allows us to have a single pane of glass to monitor our UCS environment and provide administrators with a global view of our environment. Intersight also allows for the automated opening of TAC cases to simplify support and parts replacement.
  • Snapshot of current support contract status
  • Automated opening of support tickets with Cisco TAC
  • Detailed inventory information (if appropriate licensing is purchased)
  • Cost of advanced license features can limit feasability
  • Limited support for different types of hardware (limited devices are supported)
  • Limited monitoring functionality compared to traditional SNMP polling based applications
Businesses with a homogeneous environment of Cisco devices can quickly enable cloud-based monitoring. Smaller footprints may find Cisco Intersight to be cost competitive compared to other enterprise class solutions. The cost to monitor large environments can be free (basic licenses) or if advanced features are required; other solutions may provide more value for the cost.
  • Ability to quickly generate inventory exports from a single web page
  • Automatic creation of TAC cases to replace failed hardware reduces time spent by in-house staff
  • Visibility of support contract status on all supported devices prevents lapses in coverage
Overall, the functionality and stability of Cisco Intersight is similar to other enterprise monitoring solutions. Some issues have required calls into Cisco TAC to resolve issues while others have resulted in support replying that there are known issues that plan to be addressed in future releases.
Usability of Cisco Intersight is highly dependent on the licensing purchased. The default (free) license level provides a lot of value for the minimal amount of effort to implement. The paid license levels provide additional features (detailed inventory, configuration management and deployment, etc.)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Intersight is the first Web tool that I open in the morning. My team and I are using it to take a look at all of our Cisco HyperFlex Clusters and all of our Cisco UCS Standalone Servers to see if there is any new problem or any problem left that we can address today. We are the only department using it, cause we are the IT department.
  • One single pane of glass for all the servers
  • You are able to configure the views, so it matches your needs
  • All HyperFlex Cluster, all UCS Managers and all UCS servers through one tool
  • The on-prem version needs quicker updates
  • HyperFlex stretched cluster upgrade still missing
We use Cisco Intersight to take a look in the morning for errors or problems and for forecasting storage usage by example. So we use it for monitoring mostly. Cisco Intersight is able to deploy Hyperflex Clusters or configure UCS managers and servers, but we do not use this by now.
  • Positive is the single pane of glass for the morning, so it saves us time!
I do not know any other software that is bringing the same abilities as Cisco Intersight if you have a Cisco-orientated Datacenter as we do.
If you have bigger problems with the on-prem version, the support team is sometimes a bit slow in their reactions and you have to keep going, to get your help. But finally, all problems, that we have addressed, have been resolved to my full appreciation!
It saves me time every morning when opening up just Cisco Intersight instead of eight Cisco HyperFlex Connects, four Cisco UCS managers, and some other tools. So it simplifies the morning routine by a minimum of fifteen minutes every day. Also, it saves us time when there is a problem and we are able to open a TAC case for that problem through Cisco Intersight or jump directly to the problematic management UI.
No, we do not use the API by now, but are planning to use it to integrate into our PRTG, so we are even quicker to get new errors or warnings.
5
They are all in the same role like me. System administrators in our IT department
1
I am the only one, that manages the appliance or adds new servers and clusters.
  • Early access in the morning to have a view on all clusters and servers
  • One pane of glass to see problems or address them
  • one way to get to all other management UIs
  • Nothing in mind...
  • We want to test the Intersight workload optimation tool to see if we need it
We use it every single day and love the ease of it and the integration of all our servers
Yes, we always have premium support because of the critical infrastructure
No
They are always providing exceptional support
  • easy single pane of glass
  • easy to customize the view
  • none
Yes, but I don't use it
everything works well and is really useful
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