Cisco Intersight Reviews

Cisco Intersight has multiple use cases. It has developed into a bigger portfolio. Earlier, it was used mostly to manage the devices remotely. It was initially from Meraki, but then I saw it trickling down to switches. Now it is for HyperFlex, so now they're also developing: CBO, IWO, etc., are now being brought onto Cisco Intersight as part of its product portfolio. The product can be used for many things, mostly for management.

What I like best about Cisco Intersight is the way it's developing and converging into everything that the cloud has to offer, e.g. it's converging into one platform which is good. It's good for cloud integration, so it can be a Kubernetes cluster. It can be your on-premise cluster. It can be hybrid cloud. All of that can be managed through different suites within Cisco Intersight. It is a good product.

What could be improved in Cisco Intersight is hybrid cloud management, especially when compared to the likes of VMware Tanzu, though VMware Tanzu is quite mature, while Cisco Intersight is just new. Hybrid cloud management is a segment of the product that would need a lot of improvement.

An additional feature I'd like to see in the next release of Cisco Intersight is for it to have a proper hyperscale tie-up, e.g. it can be Amazon, Azure, GCP, etc. It should also have SDN solutions, and the ACI solution should be as competitive as NSX. ACI is good, but it's mostly good as an underlay solution, so on the contrary, NSX does it on the overlay, and you can call them as a proper SDN solution. When it comes to microservices, NSX is the de facto.

Cisco Intersight is a stable product, but it needs some improvement. From one to five, I'm scoring it a three.

Cisco Intersight is a scalable product.

The initial setup for Cisco Intersight was quite easy. It was not that difficult. From one to five, one being difficult and five being easy, I'm rating it 3.5.

Cisco Intersight is not cheap, but it's not the most expensive product either. If I would rate the price from one to five, I'd rate it a three.

I evaluated VMware Tanzu.

We are partners with Cisco. We are solution integrators. We are not customers.

Cisco will be focusing more on Cisco Intersight, so that's where we are going. That's the solution we're using.

We do both on-premises and cloud deployment with Cisco Intersight. We can also do SaaS.

For one organization, two people is enough to maintain Cisco Intersight, particularly for a mid-size customer.

The number of Cisco staff here is large enough, but the technical staff, are not as many as you'd desire. They have a local presence, but not as big as Dell EMC. We are the biggest partner of Cisco here in our region.

Cisco Intersight has a lot of competitors, e.g. GCP, Azure, AWS, etc., but it's quite a new product on the rack, so it'll take some time for it to develop.

Cisco Intersight is a recommended product, but you should have a Cisco install base. It's not meant for a non-Cisco install base. It's a very good tool if you have a Cisco house, but if not, you won't see much from the product, because it's not a very heterogeneous solution. It's primarily for Cisco workloads. It's not mature enough, so I don't think there are a lot of options in Cisco Intersight for non-Cisco workloads.

I would rate Cisco Intersight eight out of ten.

We're using Cisco Intersight for performance monitoring, such as checking the hardware, plus performance management. We couldn't do performance monitoring with just the Cisco UCS Manager.

What I like most about Cisco Intersight is its manageability.

An area for improvement in Cisco Intersight is automation. It needs more automation capabilities.

Apart from enhanced automation, I want Cisco Intersight to integrate with third-party monitoring tools in its next release.

I've been using Cisco Intersight for more than two years.

Based on experience, Cisco Intersight is a stable solution.

Cisco Intersight is a scalable tool that you can scale up and down according to your needs.

The technical support for Cisco Intersight is knowledgeable and responsive, so my rating for the support team is four out of five.

We're using Cisco UCS Manager at the same time we're using Cisco Intersight. Still, with Cisco UCS Manager, we can't monitor the performance of the hardware, so we're using Cisco Intersight for that purpose.

Setting up Cisco Intersight was easy, so the initial setup is a four out of five for me.

Cisco Intersight has competitive pricing. On a scale of one to five, my rating for its pricing is four.

We evaluated the Cisco UCS Manager.

Cisco itself maintains Cisco Intersight at the ground level. You need one to two people to make some checks, but Cisco handles maintenance. Twenty people use Cisco Intersight within the company.

My rating for Cisco Intersight is seven out of ten.

My company is a Cisco Intersight partner.

The tool helps to manage Cisco servers. 

The product's setup should be easier. 

I have been using the solution for three years. 

The product is stable and I would rate it a ten out of ten. 

I would rate the solution's scalability a ten out of ten. 

The tool's setup is not straightforward. It took three days for the deployment to complete. We collect information and scope from customers and then install the virtual machines. 

You can get a free license for monitoring but need to purchase a license if you need extra control. 

It's deployed on the cloud and on-prem.

Intersight is the best solution with the data center. I like Intersight because of the integration with HashiCorp, Kubernetes, and each cloud because Intersight is the IO module. I like the orchestration of the data center system. Cisco can be integrated with Pure Storage, Veeam, HashiCorp, and Umbrella.

The unique problem with Cisco Intersight is that it's not supporting some players. For example, Dell and ATP. I have a problem with integrating the existing solutions in the data center.

I would like to see integration with the observability solution.

I've been using this solution since 2018.

It's stable.

The cost depends on the case. It's just the standard licensing cost. There are no additional fees. I'm happy with the pricing.

I would rate this solution 9 out of 10.

Cisco Intersight has valuable features for workflow automation and inventory administration.

The product could be easy to use, similar to CloudIQ. Additionally, they should provide more information to make decisions.

We are a Cisco partner. Thus, we communicate directly with cloud specialists in their technical support team.

Positive

The initial setup process is easy.

I rate Cisco Intersight a seven out of ten.

Our organization uses Cisco Intersight since it helps manage our physical infrastructure.

I am still assessing the solution's features since I haven't found it to be all that valuable till now.

There is still some work to be done on the solution. It does take care of the monitoring part but doesn't do it too well. Functionality-wise, it also doesn't manage as well as it used to do in the past.

In the future, the solution needs to plan on an extension to cover a broader range of objects since, at present, there are some Cisco devices within the range of Intersight UCS that it can't manage.

I have been using Cisco Intersight for about six months. I am using the solution in our company. I am using the solution's latest version. My company has a partnership with Cisco Intersight.

The solution's overall stability is pretty fine.

It is a scalable solution.

Only a dozen employees are using the solution in my company.

Our company plans to increase the solution's usage in the future.

The technical support by Cisco is very good. I rate the technical support an eight out of ten.

Positive

I use SolarWinds NPM. Though SolarWinds NPM and Cisco Intersight are used for slightly different purposes, they are both essentially used for monitoring.

SolarWinds NPM is able to monitor a much larger range of devices compared to Cisco Intersigh. Intershight can predominantly be used for other Cisco devices only.

The product is deployed on-premises.

The product was easy to implement.

The deployment phase was done in a week.

One person was required for the implementation process.

During the installation procedure, the tool was deployed the way I needed it.

I was involved in the solution's installation.

Market share is one advantage Cisco Intersight has over its competitors.

At present, it is not easy to integrate Cisco Intersight with products from other vendors.

It can be reasonably set up, and it is easy to get it running after that.

The product is good and works with other Cisco devices.

Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

Our primary use case is for monitoring locations. We are partners with Cisco.

I find the integrations to be the most valuable feature. 

One of the issues is that they are integrating a lot of technologies into the product and when new features appear, the service becomes full of bugs and doesn't work. I have to wait while they go back and make the application stable again. I'd like to see more integration with other companies. 

I've been using this solution for three years. 

The solution is stable most of the time, it's only when new features are added that it becomes less stable. 

The solution is pretty scalable. 

The initial setup is simple. 

I rate this product a seven out of 10.