Cisco Intersight: A Handbook for Intelligent Cloud Operations

Leverage Cisco Intersight to streamline, unify, and secure IT operations across data centers, cloud environments, and the edge.

The Cisco Intersight platform provides intelligent visualization, optimization, and orchestration for applications and infrastructure across any hybrid cloud setup. It enables you to manage traditional infrastructure with the agility of cloud-native systems while improving stability and governance in modern environments.

This comprehensive guide demonstrates how to use Intersight to transform diverse IT environments and simplify operations across your organization. Written by Cisco experts with over 150 years of combined experience in enterprise datacenters and cloud technologies, it covers all aspects of Intersight, from architecture and planning to security, infrastructure management, and administration.

The book addresses Intersight’s architecture, infrastructure operations, servers, networks, storage, virtualization, and workloads, along with chapters dedicated to Kubernetes, orchestration, programmability, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

Table of content

1. Introduction to Cisco Intersight:
   • Explains the architecture and foundational concepts of Cisco Intersight, which is designed to manage and automate hybrid IT infrastructures.
2. Infrastructure Operations:
   • Focuses on monitoring device health, infrastructure configuration, and integrating intelligent feeds for proactive maintenance and automation. Includes topics like UCS Director Integration and ITSM integration.
3. Server Operations:
   • Covers managing server deployment, applying server policies, and handling firmware updates. Provides best practices for managing ID pools and domain configurations.
4. Network Operations:
   • Details policy-driven network infrastructure operations, providing steps for efficient network management in cloud environments.
5. Storage Operations:
   • Discusses the integration and management of Cisco HyperFlex clusters, as well as traditional storage operations.
6. Virtualization Operations:
   • Focuses on virtualization orchestration and management, with specific guides on claiming vCenter and AWS targets.
7. Kubernetes Operations:
   • Explains Intersight Kubernetes Service (IKS) and covers cluster management, workload engine optimization, and the benefits of Kubernetes in cloud operations.
8. Workload Optimization:
   • Highlights tools and methods to optimize workload placement, planning, and cloud infrastructure efficiency.
9. Automation and Orchestration:
   • Delves into using Intersight for automation, showing use cases and how to apply orchestration techniques for efficient cloud operations.
10. Programmability and Infrastructure as Code (IaC):

• Covers advanced programmability features, including the Intersight SDKs and using tools like HashiCorp Terraform to implement Infrastructure as Code.

Each chapter contains real-world examples, references, and best practices to help readers apply these techniques in their environments. The book is designed for IT professionals aiming to leverage Intersight’s capabilities for cloud and hybrid IT operations.

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