Cisco Intersight - A New Look

Overview

Cisco Intersight is a SaaS-based management platform that enables organizations to conduct IT operations, management and administration tasks across hybrid cloud environments with one tool. Intersight has been designed to support the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS), Cisco HyperFlex hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), Cisco networking platforms, virtualization and container platforms, third-party servers and storage, public cloud platforms and services, and other integration endpoints.

With Cisco Intersight, organizations can automatically provision servers, associated storage, and networking resources, regardless of form factor, using profiles and can consistently align policy, server personality, and workloads. These policies can be created once and used to simplify server deployments, resulting in improved productivity and compliance and a lower risk of failures due to inconsistent configuration or manual error. Cisco Intersight can also help organizations to automate lifecycle workflows (e.g., firmware and software upgrades) to reduce manual operations and decrease IT administration time while reducing the risk of mistakes.

Cisco Intersight also provides correlated visibility and management at both application and infrastructure layers, covering bare-metal servers, hypervisors, containers, serverless functions, and application components. By bridging insights uncovered at the application and infrastructure layers, organizations can manage their entire hybrid cloud environment via a single cloud-based or on-premises GUI that provides a consistent and common view of all occurring events. Organizations can then facilitate collaboration within and between teams with domain expertise—on-premises, cloud, storage, and applications. Both MTTI and MTTR can decrease when service-affecting issues arise, thus helping to reduce operational expenses.

This demonstration explores the new user interface designed to simplify the entire user experience with Cisco Intersight.

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