Cisco Intersight Review
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 …
Cisco Intersight
Cisco Intersight
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What is Cisco Intersight?
The Cisco Intersight platform provides intelligent cloud-powered infrastructure management for the Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®) and Cisco HyperFlex™ platforms. The platform offers a level of management that enables IT organizations to analyze, simplify, and automate their environments.
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Joacim Wicander
Senior Data Center Engineer
Conscia Sweden AB (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)Video Reviews
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What is Cisco Intersight?
The Cisco Intersight platform provides intelligent cloud-powered infrastructure management for the Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®) and Cisco HyperFlex™ platforms. The platform offers a level of management that enables IT organizations to analyze, simplify, and automate their…
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What is Cisco Intersight?
Cisco Intersight is a Software as a Service (SaaS) lifecycle management platform that delivers simplified configuration, maintenance and support for Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®) and Cisco HyperFlex™ systems, other Cisco Intersight-connected devices, and third-party Intersight-connected devices. With Cisco Intersight users can manage and get support for Cisco Intersight-connected servers and third-party storage servers with full lifecycle capabilities to analyze, update, fix, and automate the environment in ways that were not possible with prior generations tools. These capabilities empower organizations to achieve significant TCO savings and deliver applications faster in support of new business initiatives.
Cisco Intersight Features
- Supported: Unified management
- Supported: Inventory information and status
- Supported: Open API
- Supported: Seamless integration and upgrades
- Supported: Model-based deployment
- Supported: Telemetry data collection
- Supported: Customizable dashboard
- Supported: User-interface launch
- Supported: Platform compliance
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Cisco Intersight Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Mobile Application | No |
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The Cisco Intersight platform provides intelligent cloud-powered infrastructure management for the Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®) and Cisco HyperFlex™ platforms. The platform offers a level of management that enables IT organizations to analyze, simplify, and automate their environments.
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Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 8.5.
The most common users of Cisco Intersight are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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March 09, 2023
Cisco Intersight Review
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
February 28, 2023
My review of Cisco Intersight
Cisco Intersight is currently being used by our organization for hardware monitoring and management. We currently monitor all of our physical servers using Cisco Intersight. We were using Cisco's IMC Supervisor solution and have migrated to Intersight. We also use Cisco Intersight to upgrade the firmware and software on our physical host. Cisco Intersight HCL allows us to easily confirm that our server hardware is running the correct version of firmware and drivers.
- Firmware Upgrades
- Hardware Monitoring
- System policies
- Hardware Compatibility Checks
- System profiles
- User Notifications
- Automatic TAC case creation is hit or miss
- Quicker refresh rates when applying changes
- Needs ability to easily add widgets to the dashboard
- Some of the functions and features are hard to find
- Cisco licensing is somewhat confusing
We haven't needed or used the embedded analytics feature of this product. When we do I'll be sure to update my review.
February 11, 2023
Good even in the free tier
Intersight allows me to easily have a global view of all my Cisco ucs servers (serial numbers, support contracts, status, error details etc...), which are present on multiple datacenters. My use of the solution is fairly basic, but even then it's a huge help to manage my datacenters. Intersight allows me also to have cases opened at the moment of a hardware failure (which is a big win) <br>
- Support
- Inventory
- Licencing management
- Lower price
February 08, 2023
Intersight Is Great for Beginners
I have used Intersight to deploy/install/configure Cisco UCS, UCS chassis, stand-alone servers and HyperFlex
- Details on which step it is currently at during a HyperFlex installation
- Showing errors and error details
- It is very difficult to troubleshoot issues within Intersight without involving Cisco support
- No access to Fabric Interconnect to test connectivity or configurations
- Cannot change IP address of Fabric Interconnects without un-claiming them and unconfiguring them back to UCS mode.
December 27, 2022
Intersight has great features but licensing can be confusing
Score 7 out of 10
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Verified User
It is nice to have 1 management console for multiple servers, server chassis, and devices. I feel the price is a little high and the different levels of licensing can be confusing. It is nice you can see vulnerabilities in firmware on certain license levels, advantage and up, I believe.
- Vulnerability Notification
- 1 pane of glass for management
- compatible with lots of Cisco products
- Confusing Licensing
- High price for some licensing levels
- Not all products integrated/supported yet
We use Intersight
Connectivity for the Cisco ACI Fabric to automatically generate TechSupport files for the device Serial Number and link it to the Service Request that was opened for the device. Also, it is possible to generate and
pre-upload TechSupports to Intersight using the TAC Assist feature. This simplifies the collection of information and greatly reduces the time that is needed for Cisco TechSupport to analyze the logs.
- Simple installation and configuration.
- Automated tasks.
- Proactive Service Request creation based on faults.
- Licensing could be simpler.
August 22, 2022
Well balanced platform that delivers more than it promises!
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.
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.
July 31, 2022
Powerful Insight from leveraging Cisco Intersight
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
December 10, 2021
Nothing will escape your gaze!
I manage all my infrastructure (Cisco UCS, Pure Storage, VMware) from Intersight. I make use of workflows to orchestrate all my infrastructure. It also simplifies the firmware upgrade of Cisco UCS. It also makes load balancing of resources simple and efficient with workload optimizer. It keeps expanding support for devices as well as vendors and even cloud environments.
- Orchestration.
- Optimization recommendations.
- Centralized management.
- Vulnerability advisories.
- Simplifies Cisco UCS firmware upgrades.
- Can install Cisco hyper flex solution.
- Support other virtualization software like Proxmox and Xen, newer versions of them.
- It needs to test more the new features before releasing them.
October 25, 2021
Excellent Product
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Cisco Intersight to help with our management and operations of Cisco devices. We don't need to have a separate VPN into our network to be able to manage the devices. Highly recommend the implementation of this solution.
- Central management.
- Cost savings.
- Ease of use.
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
Used to manage all of our Cisco equipment, mostly to keep all the equipment up to date in terms of firmware releases and updates and also to monitor and prevent possible failures.
- Collect information form your Cisco equipment.
- Monitor Cisco equipment.
- Ability to add 3rd party hardware to it (specially networking devices).
- Better monitoring alarm systems.
- Easier rollout.
It has allowed us to be more proactive in finding possible issues or bottlenecks within our Cisco hardware. It also helps us in maintaining a good security posture having all of our equipment running on the latest updates.
April 13, 2021
Set your sights on Intersight!
Our IT department uses Cisco Intersight to manage and monitor multiple Cisco UCS installations across multiple data centers. It allows us to quickly see the health and configuration status of our computer infrastructure in one place.
- Accessible from anywhere online.
- Cisco is always adding new functionality.
- Easy to learn and use on a daily basis.
- Requires internet connectivity, which may not be an option for some IT environments.
We are able to see the health and performance of our entire environment in one place. Cisco also notifies our IT staff of bugs and updates proactively, saving time and guesswork.
Cisco Intersight enables web-based management of Cisco UCS & Hyperflex clusters regardless of physical location. It will also enable you to depoly upgrades and even complete configurations via this web interface, remote deployment could become plug and play. Another great feature is the checking against supported firmware and driver baselines and the growth forecasting available in the product.
- Web based but secure via MFA
- Base checks for security and software issues
- Remote diagnostics for Cisco Support
- Basic access is free.
- Workload optimization available in higher tiers.
- Mobile app has some minor display issues.
- Most exciting features are still being rolled out.