Cisco Intersight vs Morpheus comparison

Cisco and Morpheus Data are both solutions in the Cloud Management category. Cisco is ranked #14 with an average rating of 8.2, while Morpheus Data is ranked #6 with an average rating of 7.0. Cisco holds a 1.9% mindshare in CM, compared to Morpheus Data’s 5.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Cisco users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 77% of Morpheus Data users who would recommend it.

Cisco Intersight

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

Cisco Intersight and Morpheus are leading players in the hybrid cloud management solutions category. Cisco Intersight has a slight edge in integration capabilities and automation features, while Morpheus outperforms with flexibility and multi-cloud management.

Features: Cisco Intersight offers comprehensive infrastructure lifecycle management, seamless Cisco hardware integration, and robust automation features. Morpheus provides strong multi-cloud management, extensive automation capabilities, and a highly flexible integration platform.

Room for Improvement: Cisco Intersight could enhance its cross-platform compatibility, expand third-party integrations beyond Cisco offerings, and improve ease of use in non-Cisco environments. Morpheus could benefit from refining its user interface, enhancing support for single cloud strategies, and reducing reliance on third-party tools for basic cloud management functions.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Cisco Intersight ensures smooth deployment in Cisco environments, supported by proactive customer service. Morpheus supports fast deployment across various infrastructures, offering versatile customer support options to address diverse setups.

Pricing and ROI: Cisco Intersight provides a competitive pricing model with potential for high ROI through optimized Cisco infrastructure use. Morpheus, although possibly higher in initial cost, promises better ROI due to comprehensive multi-cloud compatibility and advanced features.

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Categories and Ranking

Cisco Intersight

Ranking in Cloud Management

14th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Infrastructure Monitoring (12th)

Morpheus

Ranking in Cloud Management

6th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of Cisco Intersight is 1.9%, down from 3.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Morpheus is 5.5%, down from 6.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Morpheus	5.5%
Cisco Intersight	1.9%
Other	92.6%

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Humphrey Hlatshwayo

Systems Engineer at First Rand Bank Ltd.

Automation and seamless incident handling transform operational efficiency

I would like AI to be more integrated into Cisco Intersight. 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. For instance, if I need to find commands for UCS Manager, it should provide that information.

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MarkWittling

NFV Cloud Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Seamless upgrades, stable, and easy to deploy

We've been facing some challenges with Morpheus due to its design for public cloud usage. Their main focus is on allowing customers to deploy virtual machines to Azure, Google Cloud, AWS (and other private or public clouds they support). They provide features such as guidance and cost optimization. However, we're using Morpheus for on-prem v center clouds, which is probably not the user base norm. We are very pleased with the dashboard and multi-tenancy capabilities, but there are some challenges when deploying and configuring the more complex Telco workloads that have advanced networking. The integration of the NSX-T needs to be refactored. As I have been working on the API, there are some issues with the workflow engine in the automation that need to be addressed. For example, I need to be able to flag a task as fail or continue on fail if something goes wrong in the workflow. Currently, if one of the tasks in a twenty-task workflow fails, the remaining nineteen are not run, which can be a problem if one of those tasks is critical, such as when patching or doing security tasks. Thus, workflow enhancements and improvements are necessary. Morpheus desires the ability to control the full life cycle of a virtual machine from beginning to end. We have many vendors who want to establish virtual machines, but we want users to access them through Morpheus. We want the VMs to be provisioned from an external system and then be managed in Morpheus so users can only perform limited activities without being able to delete or provision them. We are currently working on resolving this issue, which I refer to as reconciliation. I have asked the developers to implement multi-tenancy, where each tenant has their own landing page at a unique URL. However, we are using groups, not tenants, so there are features we can do with tenants that we cannot do with groups. Specifically, I am trying to get the developers to add notifications support so that when a group member logs in to the Morpheus portal, they can be informed of their VMs' maintenance schedule at a specific time. This is a feature I have requested them to add. We are generally pleased with Morpheus, however, due to some restraints and restrictions, we are utilizing it differently than the majority of its users. This creates some difficulty.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Overall, I rate Cisco Intersight a ten out of ten."

"Scalable portfolio of services for remote device management, with good cloud integration. It's also easy to set up."

"What I like most about Cisco Intersight is its manageability."

"Intersight can validate our environment."

"Cisco Intersight is a very effective tool for data center infrastructure management."

"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."

"I like Intersight because of the integration with HashiCorp, Kubernetes, and each cloud because Intersight is the IO module."

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

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"Provides a good automation platform."

"The user interface of the application is exceptional."

"The most beneficial features for us were the API integrations with various cloud vendors like Nutanix, VMware, AWS, Azure, and GCP. It saved us the effort of doing that work ourselves."

"Morpheus is an intuitive solution that is very easy to use."

"In my organization, Morpheus is a very useful tool to automate processes—for example, provisioning new virtual machines reduces the time required, and every action is very fast using Morpheus, allowing me to prepare new environments for testing or proof-of-concept projects."

"Morpheus provides a very easy and one-click solution to scaling up and down."

"The most valuable feature of Morpheus is its strong integration with vSphere Cloud."

"It supports many features, and it also supports some of the automation that Cloudify supports. So, in addition to just giving you basic platform management—such as the ability to deploy virtual machines and have multitenancy to log in and perform all of your basic platform management tasks—it also supports automation. You can, for example, spin up three virtual machines, and you can have each virtual machine configure each other. You can do service chaining with it. You can run scripts in Dash and Python, or you can use tools like Ansible, Puppet, or Chef. All of this is just built into the tool. It is a very powerful tool."

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Cons

"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."

"The unique problem with Cisco Intersight is that it's not supporting some players."

"When new features are added, the service becomes full of bugs."

"More products should be made compatible with iWORK, including more software and hardware."

"The solution needs some enhancement in order to build the cluster in two nodes."

"Cisco Intersight needs some improvement in terms of stability. Hybrid cloud management and proper hyperscaler tie-up are other areas for improvement."

"The product could be easy to use."

"It's a very complex solution."

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"The tool could support virtual network functions better. It is really good at doing enterprise-type of things, but one of the things on which we're working with them is loading very complex virtual machines with it, such as Juniper SRX routers. It needs to support more complex virtualized resources a little bit better. Aside from that, it is a terrific tool. We really like it."

"The product has become overly complex. The biggest problem is that we find a bug, they fix the bug, but then another one pops up. We can never really deliver on the vision we had using Morpheus."

"I would suggest adding integrated tools such as FinOps or other management tools as improvements to Morpheus."

"I faced a few problems while deploying."

"The service is limited and somewhat lacking."

"We've been facing some challenges with Morpheus due to its design for public cloud usage."

"There is room for enhancement in integrating Morpheus with other solutions."

"We had to put in much effort ourselves since Morpheus's support wasn't always available to help us."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"The product is cost-effective."

"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."

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

"The solution is cheaper if you have less number of servers, but it becomes very expensive for a large number of servers."

"Licensing is on an annual basis, and it is upfront for the year. There is no extra cost unless you want additional support or specific deployment packs."

"The license is based on the number of virtual machines that Morpheus is managing. So, it is a pay-as-you-grow model."

"Morpheus doesn't directly support cost optimization, but its API integration can facilitate resource optimization. It doesn't dynamically optimize resources like an aeronautic system would; it operates step by step."

"Initially, the license may seem like a good deal, but as we grow, it becomes costly."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

21%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

University

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	7

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	4

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Cisco Intersight?

Intersight can validate our environment.

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What needs improvement with Cisco Intersight?

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What is your primary use case for Cisco Intersight?

We use Cisco Intersight ( /products/cisco-intersight-reviews ) for operational tasks. We run patches and import firmware updates from the Cisco site. In the event of a component failure, such as a ...

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What do you like most about Morpheus?

The most beneficial features for us were the API integrations with various cloud vendors like Nutanix, VMware, AWS, Azure, and GCP. It saved us the effort of doing that work ourselves.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Morpheus?

We've been a Morpheus customer since the early days. I know what they're trying to sell now, and you'd really need a strong use case to justify the cost.

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What needs improvement with Morpheus?

I think that adding artificial intelligence or a large language model inside Morpheus would be very useful for clients. I would suggest adding integrated tools such as FinOps or other management to...

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Also Known As

Intersight

Morpheus Cloud Management Platform, Morpheus CMP

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.

Cisco

Morpheus is a 100% agnostic cloud management platform (CMP) designed from the ground up to unify management of multi-cloud and hybrid IT while empowering DevOps teams with self-service provisioning of bare metal, VM, and container-based application services.

Morpheus Data

Sample Customers

EXMAR, RapidScale

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

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