Cisco Intersight FAQ Detail
127 Reviews and Ratings
How does Cisco Intersight compare to other platforms?
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According to TrustRadius reviews, Cisco Intersight is primarily used as a centralized management and monitoring platform for Cisco infrastructure, including UCS, HyperFlex, and Nexus hardware. Reviewers compare it to other tools by highlighting its role in automating infrastructure deployment through APIs, scripting, and integrations with tools like Terraform and Splunk. While many reviewers note significant time savings in deployment and troubleshooting, some find aspects of the user experience, such as navigation and log analysis, to be less intuitive than other platforms like UCS Central.
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Centralized Cisco Infrastructure Management
4 mentions▼Reviewers describe Cisco Intersight as their primary tool for managing and monitoring various components of their Cisco…
Reviewers describe Cisco Intersight as their primary tool for managing and monitoring various components of their Cisco infrastructure, including UCS domains, fabric interconnects, compute nodes, and Nexus devices.
“We will be using it to manage our UCS Infrastructure.”
“Cisco Intersight is now our primary pane of glass for managing our fabric interconnects and compute nodes.”
“We use several Intersight appliances to manage our UCS products (FIs, B-Series, X-series and C-Series on IMM or standalone) on several environments.”
“manage and monitor UCS domains, and Nexus infrastructure.”
Automation, Provisioning, and API Integration
3 mentions▼Cisco Intersight is used to automate infrastructure deployment and provides flexibility in provisioning systems. Review…
Cisco Intersight is used to automate infrastructure deployment and provides flexibility in provisioning systems. Reviewers leverage its SDK and API capabilities to build scripts and integrate with Terraform for automated workflows.
“Automate infrastructure deployment”
“Flexibility in provisioning systems”
“We have been able to integrate Terraform workflows into our domain and server profile build processes.”
“very handy to build scripts and API to get much much automation using SDk”
Monitoring and Operational Efficiency
2 mentions▼The platform offers dashboards for monitoring the UCS environment. Reviewers report that using Intersight has saved the…
The platform offers dashboards for monitoring the UCS environment. Reviewers report that using Intersight has saved them countless hours on tasks like troubleshooting, maintenance, deployment, and configuration.
“Excellent dashboards for monitoring UCS environment”
“THis has saved hours of troubleshooting and maintenance windows”
“It has saved us countless hours of time deploying, configuring and monitoring.”
Ecosystem and Integrations
3 mentions▼Reviewers mention using Intersight alongside other Cisco products like UCS Manager and Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controlle…
Reviewers mention using Intersight alongside other Cisco products like UCS Manager and Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller. It also integrates with third-party tools such as ThousandEyes and storage/HCI solutions, with some planning to integrate it with ServiceNow.
“Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller, Cisco ThousandEyes, Splunk Enterprise Security”
“Cisco UCS Series, Cisco UCS Manager”
“No, but we hope to use this in our organization. One opportunity is ServiceNow.”
“We have integrated our storage and HCI solutions into CI. Because of that we able to manage our infrastructure.”
User Experience and Usability
2 mentions▼While some reviewers use the platform for daily management, others point out areas for improvement. One reviewer finds…
While some reviewers use the platform for daily management, others point out areas for improvement. One reviewer finds the navigation less intuitive compared to UCS Central, and another notes that the log analysis feature is not user-friendly.
“Navigation to and from objects does not feel as intuitive as UCS Central”
“Analyze logs is not user friendly”
“We use it everyday for the management.”
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