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 heterogeneous environment. For example, if you're having a campus networking and data center using different devices such as Catalyst, Nexus switches, you can still manage everything. And at the same time, if you still have software-defined network, which is the ACI product from Cisco, you can still manage that. With that, you will get a single pane of glass to configure and to automate the things. You don't need to log in to multiple setups to look into each device. And on top of that, they also have telemetry. That tells you how the traffic pattern is going, and based on that, you can apply configuration on your devices. In our lab also, we have Cisco switches. You can develop a lot of automation because Cisco is rapidly working on DevNet. You have different options. You can use NSO also to configure the devices, or you can integrate with Terraform, or they also have infrastructure as code. You can leverage those playbooks if you're dealing with Ansible, and you can also do the automation on your day-to-day ops. Recently, Cisco also has some announcement with Quali. It's a stack automation. We are doing the testing with Quali. Basically, this will help for Day 0, Day 1, and Day 2 deployment or Day 2 operations as well. It supports multiple stacks. And suppose, as per looking into engineering effort, suppose some team has already developed a lot of playbooks for different tasks. If suppose moving into a different tool, can say that so we are wasting a lot of engineering effort. But with the stack automation Quali, you can still use those playbooks and can do your Day 2 operation. I think that will definitely help an organization in their Day 2 operation and can help the efficiency in their operations. With Splunk, it's very good. Splunk has a very great capability. You can do log analysis. You can have a deep visibility. And you can also have Cisco ThousandEyes. That helps you the entire network packet flow. It can even look into the application side of it and tell a network engineer that the problem is not on the network side, it's the application itself is having some issues. Visibility-wise, they have different tools, different offerings. You need to get the right tool for yourself. And Splunk is a great tool if you want to get a lot of logging, telemetry data. You can put everything into Splunk and you can get a dashboard that helps in improving your operational visibility, helps you to detect the threat as well. You can create different dashboards. And the best part is that if you're having a converged infrastructure in your data center, you can have a visibility of each stack. It's not only about having compute, network, storage. You can still look into GPU, NVIDIA side of it, or any Kubernetes that you're running, for example, Red Hat OpenShift. It's very good visibility if you're going with Splunk. It definitely enhances the troubleshooting capabilities. And also, suppose you have built a SOC team, a Security Operations Center. If you have a proper Splunk dashboard setup, it will help the SOC team directly also because they can immediately look into if there are any abnormality happening, a sudden spike happening within the network or any application is getting compromised. The SOC team also can get heavily benefited if you have a proper Splunk setup in your environment. Cisco Intersight definitely enhances the troubleshooting capabilities. Because as I mentioned, the first is you can directly work with TAC seamlessly. Cisco Technical Assistance Center is the TAC. In the old days, during the old time, we needed to work on an individual server, provide the logs from a single domain. It was a very cumbersome task, and it was lots of time-consuming. But with Cisco Intersight, now you can directly create the support bundle, and it can be fed directly to Cisco TAC. That helps you in getting engaged with the Cisco TAC or getting proper support from Cisco. Apart from that, doing the upgrades. Since now it's a SaaS and it's a centralized product, if you plan to upgrade your Cisco Intersight, if you plan to upgrade your UCS domain through Cisco Intersight, you can directly do it. You don't need to log in locally to each domain. That is one of the great enhancements that I can see. I purchased Cisco ASA-V from Marketplace. My overall review rating for this product is 8.
Senior Infrastructure And Storage Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
Top 20
Jan 13, 2026
I have experience with B-Series, C-Series, and S-Series equipment. I would recommend the S-Series but not the C-Series. I would rate this solution an eight overall.
Sr. Network Engineer at Saudi Business Machines - SBM
Real User
Top 20
Jan 27, 2025
If your environment needs the capabilities required on Intersight, such as HCI implementation, I would suggest it. The overall product rating is eight out of ten.
Even if there are some issues during the first implementation, Intersight offers many features that provide great value to companies. The solution is generally valuable, even if the customer uses non-Cisco products.
The one big advantage is that it helps us know whether our solution is deployed correctly, whether we have the right drivers and devices, and whether everything is working correctly. I will recommend the tool to others. Overall, I rate the product a seven out of ten.
Senior Infrastructure And Storage Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
Top 20
Jul 17, 2023
At present, it is not easy to integrate Cisco Intersight with products from other vendors. It can be reasonably set up, and it is easy to get it running after that. The product is good and works with other Cisco devices. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.
Senior System Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Nov 22, 2022
Cisco itself maintains Cisco Intersight at the ground level. You need one to two people to make some checks, but Cisco handles maintenance. Twenty people use Cisco Intersight within the company. My rating for Cisco Intersight is seven out of ten. My company is a Cisco Intersight partner.
We're currently using the EdgeX nodes M5, and the next generation is M6. I really recommend using these servers. It's really solid and actually has very long-term stability. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.
Senior Technical Consultant at a engineering company with 10,001+ employees
Reseller
Apr 7, 2022
We are partners with Cisco. We are solution integrators. We are not customers. Cisco will be focusing more on Cisco Intersight, so that's where we are going. That's the solution we're using. We do both on-premises and cloud deployment with Cisco Intersight. We can also do SaaS. For one organization, two people is enough to maintain Cisco Intersight, particularly for a mid-size customer. The number of Cisco staff here is large enough, but the technical staff, are not as many as you'd desire. They have a local presence, but not as big as Dell EMC. We are the biggest partner of Cisco here in our region. Cisco Intersight has a lot of competitors, e.g. GCP, Azure, AWS, etc., but it's quite a new product on the rack, so it'll take some time for it to develop. Cisco Intersight is a recommended product, but you should have a Cisco install base. It's not meant for a non-Cisco install base. It's a very good tool if you have a Cisco house, but if not, you won't see much from the product, because it's not a very heterogeneous solution. It's primarily for Cisco workloads. It's not mature enough, so I don't think there are a lot of options in Cisco Intersight for non-Cisco workloads. I would rate Cisco Intersight eight out of ten.
Cisco Intersight delivers advanced data center management with cloud integration, remote server scaling, and predictive analytics, promoting efficient infrastructure management. It supports hybrid environments and is suitable for scaling across enterprises.Cisco Intersight offers a comprehensive view of data centers with seamless cloud platform integration, enhancing manageability across environments. It is known for workflow automation, inventory management, and predictive analysis, allowing...
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 heterogeneous environment. For example, if you're having a campus networking and data center using different devices such as Catalyst, Nexus switches, you can still manage everything. And at the same time, if you still have software-defined network, which is the ACI product from Cisco, you can still manage that. With that, you will get a single pane of glass to configure and to automate the things. You don't need to log in to multiple setups to look into each device. And on top of that, they also have telemetry. That tells you how the traffic pattern is going, and based on that, you can apply configuration on your devices. In our lab also, we have Cisco switches. You can develop a lot of automation because Cisco is rapidly working on DevNet. You have different options. You can use NSO also to configure the devices, or you can integrate with Terraform, or they also have infrastructure as code. You can leverage those playbooks if you're dealing with Ansible, and you can also do the automation on your day-to-day ops. Recently, Cisco also has some announcement with Quali. It's a stack automation. We are doing the testing with Quali. Basically, this will help for Day 0, Day 1, and Day 2 deployment or Day 2 operations as well. It supports multiple stacks. And suppose, as per looking into engineering effort, suppose some team has already developed a lot of playbooks for different tasks. If suppose moving into a different tool, can say that so we are wasting a lot of engineering effort. But with the stack automation Quali, you can still use those playbooks and can do your Day 2 operation. I think that will definitely help an organization in their Day 2 operation and can help the efficiency in their operations. With Splunk, it's very good. Splunk has a very great capability. You can do log analysis. You can have a deep visibility. And you can also have Cisco ThousandEyes. That helps you the entire network packet flow. It can even look into the application side of it and tell a network engineer that the problem is not on the network side, it's the application itself is having some issues. Visibility-wise, they have different tools, different offerings. You need to get the right tool for yourself. And Splunk is a great tool if you want to get a lot of logging, telemetry data. You can put everything into Splunk and you can get a dashboard that helps in improving your operational visibility, helps you to detect the threat as well. You can create different dashboards. And the best part is that if you're having a converged infrastructure in your data center, you can have a visibility of each stack. It's not only about having compute, network, storage. You can still look into GPU, NVIDIA side of it, or any Kubernetes that you're running, for example, Red Hat OpenShift. It's very good visibility if you're going with Splunk. It definitely enhances the troubleshooting capabilities. And also, suppose you have built a SOC team, a Security Operations Center. If you have a proper Splunk dashboard setup, it will help the SOC team directly also because they can immediately look into if there are any abnormality happening, a sudden spike happening within the network or any application is getting compromised. The SOC team also can get heavily benefited if you have a proper Splunk setup in your environment. Cisco Intersight definitely enhances the troubleshooting capabilities. Because as I mentioned, the first is you can directly work with TAC seamlessly. Cisco Technical Assistance Center is the TAC. In the old days, during the old time, we needed to work on an individual server, provide the logs from a single domain. It was a very cumbersome task, and it was lots of time-consuming. But with Cisco Intersight, now you can directly create the support bundle, and it can be fed directly to Cisco TAC. That helps you in getting engaged with the Cisco TAC or getting proper support from Cisco. Apart from that, doing the upgrades. Since now it's a SaaS and it's a centralized product, if you plan to upgrade your Cisco Intersight, if you plan to upgrade your UCS domain through Cisco Intersight, you can directly do it. You don't need to log in locally to each domain. That is one of the great enhancements that I can see. I purchased Cisco ASA-V from Marketplace. My overall review rating for this product is 8.
I have experience with B-Series, C-Series, and S-Series equipment. I would recommend the S-Series but not the C-Series. I would rate this solution an eight overall.
Overall, I rate Cisco Intersight a ten out of ten. If it were possible, I would rate it twelve out of ten.
If your environment needs the capabilities required on Intersight, such as HCI implementation, I would suggest it. The overall product rating is eight out of ten.
Even if there are some issues during the first implementation, Intersight offers many features that provide great value to companies. The solution is generally valuable, even if the customer uses non-Cisco products.
The one big advantage is that it helps us know whether our solution is deployed correctly, whether we have the right drivers and devices, and whether everything is working correctly. I will recommend the tool to others. Overall, I rate the product a seven out of ten.
I rate Cisco Intersight a seven out of ten.
At present, it is not easy to integrate Cisco Intersight with products from other vendors. It can be reasonably set up, and it is easy to get it running after that. The product is good and works with other Cisco devices. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.
Cisco itself maintains Cisco Intersight at the ground level. You need one to two people to make some checks, but Cisco handles maintenance. Twenty people use Cisco Intersight within the company. My rating for Cisco Intersight is seven out of ten. My company is a Cisco Intersight partner.
We're currently using the EdgeX nodes M5, and the next generation is M6. I really recommend using these servers. It's really solid and actually has very long-term stability. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.
I would rate this solution 9 out of 10.
We are partners with Cisco. We are solution integrators. We are not customers. Cisco will be focusing more on Cisco Intersight, so that's where we are going. That's the solution we're using. We do both on-premises and cloud deployment with Cisco Intersight. We can also do SaaS. For one organization, two people is enough to maintain Cisco Intersight, particularly for a mid-size customer. The number of Cisco staff here is large enough, but the technical staff, are not as many as you'd desire. They have a local presence, but not as big as Dell EMC. We are the biggest partner of Cisco here in our region. Cisco Intersight has a lot of competitors, e.g. GCP, Azure, AWS, etc., but it's quite a new product on the rack, so it'll take some time for it to develop. Cisco Intersight is a recommended product, but you should have a Cisco install base. It's not meant for a non-Cisco install base. It's a very good tool if you have a Cisco house, but if not, you won't see much from the product, because it's not a very heterogeneous solution. It's primarily for Cisco workloads. It's not mature enough, so I don't think there are a lot of options in Cisco Intersight for non-Cisco workloads. I would rate Cisco Intersight eight out of ten.
I rate this product a seven out of 10.