Cisco Intersight

Score8.9 out of 10

123 Reviews and Ratings

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.

#1 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

20.4%

28 installations of 137

#2 most frequent

Manufacturing

14.6%

20 installations of 137

#3 most frequent

Finance and Insurance

13.9%

19 installations of 137

“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.”
— Infrastructure expert, CAGIP (10,001+ employees)

Jacob Rivas

System Engineer in Information Technology at Tcoe (201-500 employees 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

greg pires

IT architect in Information Technology at HFSinclair (1001-5000 employees 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

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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

Bobby Oommen

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

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

integration with NetApp storage

Pros

UCS management
NetApp storage management
Automation
Network management

Cons

robust integration with NetApp
integrate D0 automation into 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

Viral Patel

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

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Excellent dashboards for monitoring UCS environment

Pros

Dashboards
Metrics
Onboarding

Cons

More Metrics
More Target Providers

Return on Investment

Positive ROI

Alternatives Considered

Splunk AppDynamics

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