Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer
Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer is another consumption model for CWOM. Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer offers the same capabilities as today’s CWOM on-premises offering in a SaaS model. Customers interested in workload optimization capabilities can purchase the CWOM standalone version and, if they choose, can transition to the SaaS-based Intersight Workload Optimizer offering.
Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer is available as an option with Cisco Intersight. It extends the capabilities of Cisco Intersight with multidomain visibility across the full stack of applications and infrastructure, from on-premises to the cloud. The Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer analytics engine matches real-time workload demand to the underlying infrastructure supply. The supply includes public cloud, virtual machines, containers, third-party hardware, and Cisco infrastructure resources.
The optimization functionality is engineered for limitless scale and true SaaS multitenancy. It is architected to enable scaling to support the entirety of Cisco’s UCS and Hyperflex portfolio and third-party systems. Finally, it is a singular platform with common credentials, common accounting, and a common user experience.
Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer, when combined with AppDynamics, correlates business, application-performance, and infrastructure metrics to provide full-stack visibility and common data for a single source of truth. Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer applies machine intelligence to drive automation of physical and virtual resources. It dynamically optimizes the infrastructure in a cost-effective manner while ensuring the user experience. This enables a top-to-bottom closed-loop system—all the way from the business logic, across a hybrid cloud, to DIMMs on a server or links on a network.
Cisco Hyperflex – Intersight
The “new normal” is causing most IT departments to work remotely. Even when organizations determine they are ready to resume admitting staff onsite, IT operations are going to look different. You still need the ability to manage and support your infrastructure remotely, and you’ll want a simple, convenient, and secure way to do that. Cisco has been on the forefront of empowering teams to work from anywhere, through innovative systems management and support capabilities designed to meet the needs of more than 14,000 Cisco data center customers—a number that is rapidly growing.
A cloud-based management platform provides unified access to applications and to infrastructure monitoring, configuration, and orchestration, which helps reduce IT management complexity and unify the deployment and management of many edge devices. Cisco Intersight is a Software as a Service (SaaS) hybrid cloud operations platform that delivers intelligent automation, observability, and optimization to customers for traditional and cloud-native applications and infrastructure. It supports Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) and Cisco Hyperflex hyperconverged infrastructure, other Intersight-connected devices, third-party Intersight-connected devices, cloud platforms and services, and other integration endpoints. Because it’s a SaaS-delivered platform, Intersight functionality increases and expands with weekly releases. Figure 3-27 shows the Cisco Intersight login page.
Figure 3-27 Cisco Intersight login page
With Intersight, you get all the benefits of SaaS delivery and full lifecycle management of distributed infrastructure and workloads across data centers, remote sites, branch offices, and edge environments. This empowers you to analyze, update, fix, and automate your environment in ways that not previously possible. As a result, your organization can achieve significant total cost of ownership (TCO) savings and deliver applications faster in support of new business initiatives.
For Cisco infrastructure, the Intersight platform works in conjunction with Cisco UCS Manager, Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC), and Cisco Hyperflex Connect. In addition, Intersight integrates with third-party storage, cloud services, virtualization, and container platforms. You can simply associate a model-based configuration to provision servers and associated storage and fabric automatically, regardless of form factor. Using profiles, IT staff can consistently align policy, server personality, and workloads. These policies can be created once and used to simplify server deployments, resulting in improved productivity and compliance as well as lower risk of failures due to inconsistent configuration. In addition, Cisco provides integrations to third-party operations tools, starting with ServiceNow, to allow customers to use their existing solutions more efficiently. Figure 3-28 illustrates Cisco Intersight Management as a Service (MaaS).
Figure 3-28 Cisco Intersight MaaS
