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We performed a comparison between Cisco Intersight and NetApp Cloud Insights based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Cisco Intersight vs. NetApp Cloud Insights Report (Updated: May 2024).
772,649 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Pros
"I like Intersight because of the integration with HashiCorp, Kubernetes, and each cloud because Intersight is the IO module.""We enjoy having an inside view of all the data centers and all the EdgeX nodes within a single portal rather than going into the EdgeX connections one by one.""Intersight can validate our environment.""What I like most about Cisco Intersight is its manageability.""Cisco Intersight has valuable features for workflow automation and inventory administration.""Provides an overall view using a single portal.""The product has good integration.""Our organization uses Cisco Intersight since it helps manage our physical infrastructure."

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"The solution is 98 percent stable.""NetApp Cloud Insights helps with login monitoring and troubleshooting. Previously, if we had performance concerns or needed to interface with other groups and their products, a task that should require only one or two people turned into a six-person job.""One feature we appreciate the most is its ability to take snapshots, which adds an extra layer of security and allows us to protect our data effectively.""The solution is easy to deploy.""Its ability to quickly inventory our resources, figure out interdependencies across them, and assemble a topology of your environment is brilliant. There is a price associated with it. Whenever you target a NetApp environment, it is included in the price but whenever you want to add different vendors, like VMware and Cisco, the price greatly spikes. Inventorization helps us a lot to visualize the environment.""All our production clusters are in Cloud Insight. It provides a single pane of glass, giving us visibility into the environment, which allows us to understand if any issues are going on across any of our clusters.""Cloud Secure is definitely the most valuable feature and being able to see file level activity. It gives real-time alerting on possible ransomware attacks and provides file security review. It helps us to see if something abnormal is happening on the system before it's too late.""Cloud Insights' best features are visibility and the connector to move the workloads."

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Cons
"The product could be easy to use.""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.""The unique problem with Cisco Intersight is that it's not supporting some players.""The product's setup should be easier.""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.""The solution needs some enhancement in order to build the cluster in two nodes.""The usability must be better.""When new features are added, the service becomes full of bugs."

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"The IP-based monitoring could be added in a future release.""The first level of NetApp's technical support could be improved.""There is room for improving the creating and managing or modifying of reports. That is still a difficult task to do and requires knowledge beyond the storage itself. I would love to see reporting improved so that we can create reports by dragging and dropping pieces into a report form and publish a report that way.""Their pricing model needs improvement.""Cloud Insights could offer more detail when we drill down into the Azure environment.""Most of the time, I initially connect with entry-level support, and then I need to request a higher-tier support level, which can result in delays.""When I did need support because I was having problems with the solution, the first or the second line just didn't understand it. They were providing this only on a software as a service basis. So, they were asking all the wrong questions.""The support is not very quick."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Cisco Intersight is not cheap, but it's not the most expensive product either."
  • "It's just the standard licensing cost. There are no additional fees."
  • "Cisco Intersight has competitive pricing. On a scale of one to five, my rating for its pricing is four."
  • "You can get a free license for monitoring but need to purchase a license if you need extra control."
  • "The product is cost-effective."
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  • "The licensing model could be improved. We love that you can use it for free for looking at NetApp products. You only need licenses to look at non-NetApp products, but as soon as you do that, you start utilizing licenses that actually would have been free in the public. So, there is a bit of an anomaly in the licensing model."
  • "Be aware of the capacity licensing and understand how that works, because it is based on capacity. Getting an understanding of that is the biggest thing."
  • "The solution's pricing is based on the device you purchase and includes support services."
  • "We are billed based on management units, so we can purchase units based on six months, twelve months, twenty-four months, or thirty-six months upfront or pay as you go depending on our requirements."
  • "The solution is expensive."
  • "The licensing is complex. The calculation depends on what you're ingesting. A terabyte of one product is not a terabyte of another product. Virtual machines don't equate so easily. It's all about the end-use managed units and having an easy place to reference how far those units go."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Intersight can validate our environment.
    Top Answer:We used the solution's automation capabilities, but it wasn’t easy. It was part of why we took some time to deploy the solution. It didn't give us much value. It wasn't that good. Intersight is a… more »
    Top Answer:We use the solution for server management across various locations.
    Top Answer:NetApp Cloud Insights helps with login monitoring and troubleshooting. Previously, if we had performance concerns or needed to interface with other groups and their products, a task that should… more »
    Top Answer:The licensing is complex. The calculation depends on what you're ingesting. A terabyte of one product is not a terabyte of another product. Virtual machines don't equate so easily. It's all about the… more »
    Top Answer:Ease of reporting is one thing that they're trying to tackle. If you have a specific set of data you want from Cloud Insights, you can ask NetApp to help you build the reports from the ground up. The… more »
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    Overview

    Cisco Intersight is Cisco’s systems management platform that delivers intuitive computing through cloud-powered intelligence. This platform offers a more intelligent level of management that enables IT organizations to analyze, simplify, and automate their environments in ways that were not possible with prior generations of tools. This capability empowers organizations to achieve significant savings in Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and to deliver applications faster, so they can support new business initiates. The advantages of the model-based management of the Cisco UCS platform plus Cisco Intersight are extended to Cisco UCS servers and Cisco HyperFlex and Cisco HyperFlex Edge systems. Cisco HyperFlex Edge is optimized for remote sites, branch offices, and edge environments.

    NetApp Cloud Insights is an infrastructure monitoring tool that gives you visibility into your complete infrastructure. With Cloud Insights, you can monitor, troubleshoot and optimize all your resources including your public clouds and your private data centers.

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    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company43%
    Financial Services Firm7%
    Manufacturing Company5%
    Healthcare Company5%
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    Computer Software Company17%
    Logistics Company17%
    Legal Firm17%
    Media Company8%
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    Manufacturing Company16%
    Computer Software Company16%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Government7%
    Company Size
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    Small Business30%
    Midsize Enterprise20%
    Large Enterprise50%
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    Small Business13%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise76%
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    Midsize Enterprise33%
    Large Enterprise67%
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    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise69%
    Buyer's Guide
    Cisco Intersight vs. NetApp Cloud Insights
    May 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco Intersight vs. NetApp Cloud Insights and other solutions. Updated: May 2024.
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    Cisco Intersight is ranked 26th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 10 reviews while NetApp Cloud Insights is ranked 27th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 12 reviews. Cisco Intersight is rated 7.8, while NetApp Cloud Insights is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco Intersight writes "Scalable and easy to set up portfolio of services; good for remote device management and other functions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp Cloud Insights writes "It helps with login monitoring and troubleshooting". Cisco Intersight is most compared with Cisco UCS Manager, HPE OneView, IBM Turbonomic, Cisco UCS Director and VMware Aria Operations, whereas NetApp Cloud Insights is most compared with Dell CloudIQ, Datadog, Zabbix, IBM Turbonomic and ServiceNow IT Operations Management. See our Cisco Intersight vs. NetApp Cloud Insights report.

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