Cisco Intersight- what it means and how to benefit as a customer
Updated August 03, 2025
Cisco Intersight- what it means and how to benefit as a customer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service
- Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer
Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Intersight
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
- ROI is much better
- easy to provision new servers
- get alerts on critical items
very well... will need to take extra time to add my specifics
single point and single pane of glass.
very handy to build scripts and API to get much much automation using SDk
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
15 - IT side of medical and clinical infrastructure that runs on computer, network and storage both Cisco and third party. Many medical and health professionals actively monitor, configure and replace, add new devices and monitor and troubleshoot operating environment. Since the whole solution is patient centric, utmost details are considered for safety and reliability of these monitoring platforms.
5 - Since the software as a service SaaS platform (Intersight) is very efficient, less people are required and needed for every day support.
The platform has many alerts and logs that monitor various inner working and staying up and running, its been appreciated by lot of support folks.
The platform has connectivity from multiple devices and system, it has built in redundancy and reliability of operations. The data is received on management out of the band network, leaving underneath data plane keep operating.
- Monitoring the health of overall compute devices deployed and implemented
- Troubleshooting when there are errors or when alerts are generated.
- Proactive fault notification and remediations. Systems monitors many devices for fault counters, informs and alerts users
- Opens service tickets automatically when errors are generated that could lead to system failures. Example hard drive or memory failures.
- Single dashboard view
- Actively monitoring and troubleshooting faults and errors
- Getting RMA and TAC service tickets automatically when things go south.
- Generate system status for management
- Expand to include more capacity
- Include more proactive and remedies including systematic failures
- Include third party storage, compute and networking gear
- Include ability to upgrade ACI and SD-WAN.
Cisco Intersight Support
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Quick Resolution Good followup Knowledgeable team Problems get solved Kept well informed Immediate help available Support understands my problem Support cares about my success Quick Initial Response | None |
Healthcare provider has an enterprise support license that includes premium support for cisco intersight. It seems lot of money initially and company leadership dwelled on it for a very long time, eventually put this to test, and so far been happy with the level of support and interworking within team to provide a good experience
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