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Cisco Intersight

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113 Reviews and Ratings

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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.

Categories & Use Cases

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

Incentivized
Xavier Reculin
Infrastructure expert in Engineering at CAGIP (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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. It helps us to configure all our products on a centralized appliance and permits us to analyze logs through the same tool. We also link Intersight to our managing tools to have all alarms monitored.

Pros

  • Manage configurations through Profiles
  • Analyze logs
  • Automate infrastructure deployment

Cons

  • Analyze logs is not user friendly
  • Add some warnings when applying some critical settings
  • Viewing topology on servers or FI can have some view bugs

Return on Investment

  • Positive impact : profile templates help a lot to simplify deployment and avoid some human errors
  • Negative impacts : If a bad setting is set, it can impact all the infrastructure

Alternatives Considered

Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects and Fabric Extenders, Cisco UCS Manager and Cisco UCS Series

Other Software Used

OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter, HPE OneView

To Intersight or not to Intersight

Incentivized
John-Paul StraverView profile
AI Architect in Information Technology at Trivium Packaging (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, We use Cisco Intersight to manage ucs-X blade server.

Pros

  • Policy control to allow expansion

Cons

  • In my opinion, Discovery should work more reliable in Cisco Intersight
  • In my opinion, Cisco Intersight Policy templates should be available to easy start initial setup of you

Return on Investment

  • no improvement yet

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Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Managing the UCS chassis and the fabric interconnect switches

Pros

  • Firmware updates
  • Config management

Cons

  • Integration with nexus switches

Return on Investment

  • Central management

Alternatives Considered

Hitachi Command Suite

Other Software Used

Splunk Enterprise

Usability

Cisco Intersight- what it means and how to benefit as a customer

Incentivized
Mitch Kumar (CCIE-DC)View profile
Sr Solutions Architect in Customer Service at Froedtert Health (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Use Intersight to manage and monitor our large foot print of Cisco UCS blades and rack servers. It is one view dash.

Pros

  • Able to provision pools and policies and provision server workloads quickly and easily.

Cons

  • able to include third party servers and devices
  • send alerts on critical events and as resources are depleted and under utilized.
  • SaaS solution that is the best of breed.
  • easily able to alerts of pro-active errors

Return on Investment

  • ROI is much better
  • easy to provision new servers
  • get alerts on critical items

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365

Cisco Intersight review

Incentivized
Patrick Bullard
Sr Systems Engineer in Information Technology at Centene Corporation (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cisco Intersight is now our primary pane of glass for managing our fabric interconnects and compute nodes.

Pros

  • Flexibility in provisioning systems
  • Ability to integrate workflows from Terraform
  • Always seems highly available

Cons

  • Navigation to and from objects does not feel as intuitive as UCS Central
  • Reduce the number of shallow discoveries upon policy application
  • Provide better insight into roadblocks when upgrading firmware on Fabric Interconnects

Other Software Used

VMware ESXi

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