Deployment Options
Cisco Intersight is a SaaS-delivered cloud operations platform with the flexibility of advanced deployment options. You can take advantage of new features as they become available from Cisco without the challenges and complexity of maintaining your management tools. The majority of Cisco users enjoy the benefits of SaaS; however, if you have data locality or security needs for managing systems that may not fully meet a SaaS management model, you can leverage the Cisco Intersight Virtual Appliance software on your premises to connect your servers through Intersight.com.
Alternatively, the Cisco Intersight Private Virtual Appliance provides an easy way to deploy a VMware Open Virtual Appliance (OVA), which can be configured, deployed, and run off-premises. The Private Virtual Appliance allows you to still take advantage of much of the SaaS functionality without connectivity back to Intersight.com. Both the Intersight Virtual Appliance and Private Virtual Appliance provide advantages over conventional on-premises management tools.
Benefits of Using Cisco Intersight
The following list and Figure 3-29 explains some of the benefits of Cisco Intersight Customer:
• Reduces complexity and manual effort to deploy, maintain, and upgrade Cisco Intersight–connected devices
• Delivers proactive support and Return Materials Authorizations (RMAs) through tight integration with Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC)
• Shifts the burden of building, maintaining, and securing your management environment to Cisco
• Learns and evolves to deliver greater capabilities and improved insights to help you proactively manage your environment
• Is fully programmable and can be integrated with third-party systems and tools
• Can add workload optimization and Kubernetes services seamlessly
• Has a choice of deployment options
Figure 3-29 Cisco Intersight Customer benefits
Figure 3-30 illustrates Cisco Intersight seamless scalability.
Figure 3-30 Cisco Intersight seamless scalability
Figure 3-31 illustrates Cisco Intersight Device Connector.
Figure 3-31 Cisco Intersight Device Connector
