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Cisco Intersight vs Morpheus comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
6.2
Cisco Intersight offers cost savings, simplifies operations, reduces personnel needs, and enhances management, proving valuable in tech evolution.
Sentiment score
5.4
Morpheus improves cloud efficiency, reducing provisioning time by 40-50% and manpower by 30-40%, achieving ROI within 12 months.
It simplifies the onboarding of new hardware, reducing time spent on manual installations and configurations.
Systems Engineer at FNB South Africa
I have seen a return on investment, as we need fewer employees, and most of it can be done from one dashboard.
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder at a computer software company with 1-10 employees
Morpheus return on investment was usually realized within 6 to 12 months.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.5
Cisco Intersight's customer service is praised for professionalism and efficiency, though complex issues may face varying quality and escalations.
Sentiment score
7.8
Morpheus support is praised for responsiveness and technical assistance, but smaller users face accessibility issues and occasional communication barriers.
For complex issues, it's challenging to get the right engineer quickly unless you have a specific contract like CX.
Senior Network Architect at ocp tech
On a scale of one to ten, I would rate the customer support a ten.
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder at a computer software company with 1-10 employees
I would rate the technical support by Cisco as an eight or nine, because Cisco TAC is one of the best TACs I work with.
Team Lead for Network & Security at Secure Services Mauritius Ltd
In the past, if we required any support from a configuration standpoint or if anything broke, we used to get really quick and easy customer support.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
Cisco Intersight is praised for scalability, adaptability, and efficiency in multi-environment management with easy deployment and server profile management.
Sentiment score
7.8
Morpheus offers scalable solutions with modular distribution, supporting easy upscaling, though some find challenges with infrastructure dependencies.
I rate its scalability a ten out of ten due to its capability to manage multiple domains and automate service requests.
Systems Engineer at FNB South Africa
Scalability allows for creating server profiles quickly, mapping them to multiple servers, and removing them when scaling down.
Technical Marketing Engineer Hybrid Cloud Infrastructures at NetApp
Cisco Intersight scales straightforwardly with the growing needs of the organization.
Team Lead for Network & Security at Secure Services Mauritius Ltd
We can start with one node and extend to three nodes as needed.
Morpheus specialist at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Morpheus's scalability is impressive as it scales very well for hundreds of cloud accounts and thousands of workloads, especially in a multi-tenant MSP operations standpoint.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
Cisco Intersight is reliable, though upgrades and new features may challenge stability, with some preferring older versions.
Sentiment score
8.2
Morpheus shows strong stability and performance, though high memory usage and complex abstraction layers present challenges.
After five years, if I don't have access to the Cisco Intersight portal, how do I manage my servers if I want to conduct some test environments?
Team Lead for Network & Security at Secure Services Mauritius Ltd
Some steps are not included in the official documentation, which can create challenges.
Senior Network Architect at ocp tech
It is always accessible online, secure, and allows access from any location, following strict authentication standards.
Systems Engineer at FNB South Africa
Morpheus is stable, and I can confirm that the platform is quite stable across different clouds, business units, and large environments.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Room For Improvement

Cisco Intersight needs improved integration, ease of use, more features, better support, and cost-effective maintenance for enhanced user satisfaction.
Morpheus needs better user-friendliness, documentation, and customization, along with improved integrations, GUI, bug fixes, and advanced features.
There is a significant issue regarding migration from UCS Manager into Intersight without formatting the Fabric Interconnects (FI), which is problematic in a production environment.
System Presale at Bezeq
It would be great to have a chat session mode AI so that when I am on standby and encountering issues, I could engage with it, much like ChatGPT.
Systems Engineer at FNB South Africa
When registering our devices and servers using tokens, auto-detection could make it easier by automatically identifying resources and adding them to the platform.
Technology Architect at University of Helsinki
It would be good to have more blueprint examples which are comprehensive so that users can create complex blueprints and elaborated workflows.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
I think that adding artificial intelligence or a large language model inside Morpheus would be very useful for clients.
Morpheus specialist at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
 

Setup Cost

Cisco Intersight's competitive pricing includes varied licenses, discounts, and self-setup options, with advanced features requiring higher-tier licenses.
Morpheus offers flexible, cost-efficient pricing for enterprise buyers, scalable with virtual machines but may escalate with high usage.
The pricing is fair and reasonable, particularly for enterprises.
Systems Engineer at FNB South Africa
Cisco Intersight's license cost is very high compared to AWS and Azure solutions, which have lower initiation costs.
Technology Architect at University of Helsinki
The pricing is solid for what we get.
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder at a computer software company with 1-10 employees
 

Valuable Features

Cisco Intersight enhances data center efficiency with remote management, automation, and integration across multiple platforms and environments.
Morpheus offers hybrid cloud management with automation, centralized control, and seamless integration, enhancing accessibility and flexibility with strong support.
This solution has provided time savings and required fewer people to operate this tool, rather than direct cost savings.
Sr. Network Engineer at Saudi Business Machines - SBM
It provides visibility into other products and storage, and is beneficial for environments where Cisco and other vendors coexist, allowing full visibility of the entire infrastructure.
System Presale at Bezeq
It also provides predictive analysis, predicting data leaks and making it easy to scale up servers remotely without requiring physical interference.
Technology Architect at University of Helsinki
The service catalog stands out for me because it allows me to prepare or develop something for a client to automate or clearly prepare forms for a client who may not be familiar with more specific details of the product, such as the provision of virtual machines.
Morpheus specialist at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The multi-cloud abstraction layer is definitely one of the best because there is a single pane of glass for all the different cloud providers.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Cisco Intersight
Ranking in Cloud Management
14th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
IT Infrastructure Monitoring (10th)
Morpheus
Ranking in Cloud Management
8th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of Cisco Intersight is 1.6%, down from 2.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Morpheus is 2.7%, down from 7.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Morpheus2.7%
Cisco Intersight1.6%
Other95.7%
Cloud Management
 

Featured Reviews

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Technical Marketing Engineer Hybrid Cloud Infrastructures at NetApp
Centralized policies have simplified hybrid operations and now support automated workflows
The challenge could be if there are any bugs. Most of the time, you may feel that the TCAM resources are getting full on the Nexus just because of some bug or the configuration is not supported. Or sometimes, if there are any vulnerabilities happening on the current running firmware, those are challenges we have. And if you talk about from the compute side, there were initial bugs such as a CPU throttle issue. Because of that, the chassis was not running in an optimum way. You may see performance issues during that time. For that, Cisco released a patch, and it got fixed. I think Cisco Intersight should allow more automation capabilities. It should be more open, and it should provide more automation capabilities. I think there is also a scope of making it a little bit simpler because a lot of policy and config sometimes becomes confusing for the user because it has a lot of config. Maybe they can do a little bit of simplification with Cisco Intersight.
AbhishekGupta2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Unified cloud governance has reduced provisioning time and simplifies multi-tenant operations
Morpheus offers several best features. The multi-cloud abstraction layer is definitely one of the best because there is a single pane of glass for all the different cloud providers. You don't need separate tooling in place. Morpheus is an MSP-friendly platform where we can have multi-tenancy, role-based access control, metering, chargeback, and showback. The user interface of the application is really good. Tenants can easily log in and see their specific environment. We can create white labeling for each of the VMs or deployments. The deployments of VMs are made really easy, and the user interface is appreciated by all new users who log into the platform and see the ease of provisioning a new virtual machine with a predefined template. Out of those features, the one that has had the biggest impact for my team and clients is, from the MSP perspective, definitely the most helpful because, as an MSP ourselves, we handle multiple end customers and clients. Our teams, because they handle multiple customers, didn't have to switch from one platform to another. They could leverage Morpheus and manage their end customers. The second aspect I would point out is the governance and policy engine functionality, where we could leverage quotas, put in a tagging strategy, and security policies in the environment. That really helped. Third, it also helped to decrease manual workflow because we had created different workflows and policies which were all automated. So it highly reduced the day-to-day activities which our operations teams used to conduct. Morpheus has positively impacted my organization by really helping to reduce provisioning times from days to minutes, which is one of the value-adds we also tell to our customers. Second, it has allowed our MSP teams to compartmentalize the tenants in a secure fashion. Third, it has decreased all manual workflow overhead which our operations team used to feel. Morpheus policy enforcement aspect has been really helpful because it has helped lower operational risk. Finally, it enables self-service workflow without sacrificing control over the different environments.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
12%
Computer Software Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Healthcare Company
7%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Outsourcing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise10
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise6
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Cisco Intersight?
The challenge could be if there are any bugs. Most of the time, you may feel that the TCAM resources are getting full on the Nexus just because of some bug or the configuration is not supported. Or...
What is your primary use case for Cisco Intersight?
The first use case is to build a hybrid cloud. The first thing is to configure the server. The server could be located either on an edge location or on the data center, or it could be a remote offi...
What advice do you have for others considering Cisco Intersight?
I work as a partner. For optimizing, Cisco has various tools. If you talk from a network point of view, they have recently launched Nexus One. That gives enterprise an opportunity to configure a he...
What needs improvement with Morpheus?
Morpheus can be improved, particularly from an analytics standpoint. The cost insight feature is really good, but I think advanced FinOps features could be a bit stronger. I would like to add more ...
What is your primary use case for Morpheus?
My main use cases for Morpheus include self-service provisioning and automation, with one particular set of catalogs for cloud resources across different providers. A standardized blueprint allows ...
What advice do you have for others considering Morpheus?
Morpheus advice I would give to others looking into using the product is to focus on building your blueprints one by one. Don't rush into building all of the blueprints. Align your governance and c...
 

Also Known As

Intersight
Morpheus Cloud Management Platform, Morpheus CMP
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

EXMAR, RapidScale
Morpheus CMP, mcdonalds, blackrock, HSBC, astrazeneca, arris, WGU, GBG, pennstate, beyondtrust
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