October 3, 2017 at 11:52New Intersight Platform Simplifies Cisco UCS and HyperFlex Management
In late September, Cisco introduced Intersight, a new administration and automation platform for Cisco UCS and Cisco HyperFlex. New solution:
Read more about this below. / Flickr / Diesmer Ponstein / CC Often, user data is distributed between a data center and a private or public cloud (sometimes several clouds at once). According to Cisco, Intersight is a scalable solution that helps manage data in this mixed environment. Intersight is also designed to simplify the work with deployment models: containers and microservices.
Cisco Intersight has a dynamic UI that is customizable based on the user's role. At the same time, the platform is constantly learning to help simplify routine IT operations.
The platform is becoming more intelligent thanks to the cloud-based components of machine learning. Cisco will collect user infrastructure information, analyze trends, and then use intelligent systems to identify likely points of failure and make recommendations on how to use resources.
Intersight offers new APIs, so Cisco UCS and HyperFlex get the opportunity to work with tools for continuous software deployment and configuration management - Puppet, Chef, Ansible and PowerShell.
At the same time, the platform inherited the standards of the Cisco InfoSec solution, which allows you to configure secure communication between the Intersight SaaS platform and the target data centers. Application deployment and updating takes place in a secure environment.
Cisco Intersight will be available on the market in two versions. Intersight Base Edition will be distributed free of charge. It includes monitoring systems, a customizable control panel, a HyperFlex installer for deploying clusters, and the ability to contextually launch UCS Manager, IMC, and HyperFlex Connect.
Intersight Essentials Edition - the second version of the platform - will include all the functionality of the free solution, as well as the ability to configure profiles in accordance with security policies, firmware management, Hardware Compatibility Listing checks and update recommendations service.
The work with Cisco and the adaptation of the Intersight platform have already been announced by companies at IBM. This is not surprising, since in more than 15 years of partnership, Cisco and IBM have delivered solutions to 25 thousand customers around the world. IBM representatives noted that "the new Cisco Intersight management platform is another step in the development of the managed infrastructure market." Pure Storage also became a Cisco partner in this area .
Cisco Intersight ( video ) is expected to be available in the fourth quarter of this year. According to the developers, the platform easily integrates with existing UCS and HyperFlex tools, so its implementation will not affect the increase in system complexity. In the future, the company also plans to release a platform for on-premise infrastructure. In the meantime, you can see the preview of the solution.
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- Uses machine learning to identify likely points of failure in the infrastructure;
- Gives recommendations on the use of computing resources;
- Simplifies configuration management.
Read more about this below. / Flickr / Diesmer Ponstein / CC Often, user data is distributed between a data center and a private or public cloud (sometimes several clouds at once). According to Cisco, Intersight is a scalable solution that helps manage data in this mixed environment. Intersight is also designed to simplify the work with deployment models: containers and microservices.
“Cisco UCS was designed as a programmable infrastructure. With Cisco Intersight, we were able to move the idea of centralized control to the cloud. This has opened up a new range of opportunities for users, ” said Satinder Sethi, Cisco’s vice president of data center solutions.
Functions and Features
Cisco Intersight has a dynamic UI that is customizable based on the user's role. At the same time, the platform is constantly learning to help simplify routine IT operations.
The platform is becoming more intelligent thanks to the cloud-based components of machine learning. Cisco will collect user infrastructure information, analyze trends, and then use intelligent systems to identify likely points of failure and make recommendations on how to use resources.
Intersight offers new APIs, so Cisco UCS and HyperFlex get the opportunity to work with tools for continuous software deployment and configuration management - Puppet, Chef, Ansible and PowerShell.
At the same time, the platform inherited the standards of the Cisco InfoSec solution, which allows you to configure secure communication between the Intersight SaaS platform and the target data centers. Application deployment and updating takes place in a secure environment.
Cisco Intersight will be available on the market in two versions. Intersight Base Edition will be distributed free of charge. It includes monitoring systems, a customizable control panel, a HyperFlex installer for deploying clusters, and the ability to contextually launch UCS Manager, IMC, and HyperFlex Connect.
Intersight Essentials Edition - the second version of the platform - will include all the functionality of the free solution, as well as the ability to configure profiles in accordance with security policies, firmware management, Hardware Compatibility Listing checks and update recommendations service.
The work with Cisco and the adaptation of the Intersight platform have already been announced by companies at IBM. This is not surprising, since in more than 15 years of partnership, Cisco and IBM have delivered solutions to 25 thousand customers around the world. IBM representatives noted that "the new Cisco Intersight management platform is another step in the development of the managed infrastructure market." Pure Storage also became a Cisco partner in this area .
When released
Cisco Intersight ( video ) is expected to be available in the fourth quarter of this year. According to the developers, the platform easily integrates with existing UCS and HyperFlex tools, so its implementation will not affect the increase in system complexity. In the future, the company also plans to release a platform for on-premise infrastructure. In the meantime, you can see the preview of the solution.
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