The management tool you didn't know you needed for your UCS or Hyperflex environment.
Updated June 23, 2020
The management tool you didn't know you needed for your UCS or Hyperflex environment.
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Intersight
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.
Pros
- 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.
Cons
- Mobile app has some minor display issues.
- Most exciting features are still being rolled out.
- Having access to your data-center management from your mobile phone makes it very easy to do a quick check on your environment.
- Proactive alerting prevents downtime or overtime when preventing issues from becoming problems.
There's no other product that integrates this closely with Cisco hardware.
Do you think Cisco Intersight delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Cisco Intersight's feature set?
Yes
Did Cisco Intersight live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Cisco Intersight go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Cisco Intersight again?
Yes
Using Cisco Intersight
1 - Operational management of infrastructure team
- insight in your datacenter from anywhere with the mobile app
- forecasting storage usage
- being informed of updates/fixes fro your specific installed base
- Integration of different kinds of information makes intersight a one-stop for your datacenter health
- deployment of remote sites
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