Cisco Intersight

Rethink cloud operations

Greg Scarlett
Technical Solutions Architect
10 May 2021
 Other LOB Cloud Architects DevOps Engineers
IT Ops teams
are feeling the
pressure of an
always-on
digital world…

43%
of organizations want
On-prem apps
On-prem data
Infra and Ops
Serverless &
Functions Service Provider

Machines
to release new IaaS/PaaS
SaaS
changes weekly or Open Source Lifecycle AI/ML
Tools Management
even more frequently Stacks

IaaS/PaaS
and be able to restore Integration
Data center
IaaS/PaaS Production
service between one team Branch team
Containers
hour and one day
Colo IaaS/PaaS
Edge Cloud backup
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Sources: Google: State of DevOps 2019, IDC US, DevOps Survey 2019, July 2019
With more apps, more types of infra,
more interdependencies, more targets…
The number of applications 60% of all compute & storage
created by businesses is resources at remote/edge or
expected to rise by 55% provider data centers
over the next two years

On-prem data Serverless &

On-prem apps Infra and Ops Functions Service Provider

Applications created in the Machines IaaS/PaaS 47% of applications will be

next two years have an average Open Source Lifecycle AI/ML
SaaS built as microservices in
of over 20 dependencies Tools Management Stacks the next two years

IaaS/PaaS
Integration Data center IaaS/PaaS Production
team Branch team
Containers

Colo IaaS/PaaS
Edge
By 2025, the percentage of
Cloud backup By 2025, 70% of digital business
enterprises deploying multifaceted initiatives will require I&O leaders
cloud governance tooling will be to report on the business metrics
over 70% versus 10% in 2020 from digital experience

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…the costs, risks, and bottlenecks are familiar

Risking application Delaying in service

performance and On-prem apps
On-prem data
Infra and Ops
Serverless &
Functions Service
Provider
development due to
user experience Machines IaaS/PaaS manual tasks
SaaS
Open Source Lifecycle AI/ML
Tools Management Stacks

Data center IaaS/PaaS

Integration IaaS/PaaS Production
team Branch team
Containers

Colo IaaS/PaaS
Edge Cloud backup

Increasing costs from Not driving the

overprovisioning business forward

Unnecessary time wasted

with platform-specific tools

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Time to rethink cloud operations
Other LOB Cloud Architect DevOps Engineers
Comprehensive reach
across any infrastructure
and any workload

Unified operating model

for IT Ops, infrastructure On-prem data Serverless &

and DevOps teams On-prem apps Functions Service Provider

Machines IaaS/PaaS
On-prem data ServerlessSaaS
&
On-prem apps
Open Source
Tools Infra and Ops
Lifecycle
Management
AI/ML
Stacks
Functions Service Provider

Intelligent automation Machines IaaS/PaaS

IaaS/PaaS
Data center
Production
for real-time, Integration
team
Open Source
Branch
Tools
Lifecycle
Management
AI/ML
IaaS/PaaS
SaaS
team
Containers Stacks
balancing risk, cost IaaS/PaaS
Edge Data center Colo IaaS/PaaS Cloud backup
and control Integration
team Branch
IaaS/PaaS Production
team
Containers

Colo IaaS/PaaS
Edge Cloud backup

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Infra and Ops
Time to rethink cloud operations
Other LOB Cloud Architect DevOps Engineers
Comprehensive reach
across any infrastructure
and any workload

Unified operating model

for IT Ops, infrastructure On-prem data Serverless &

and DevOps teams On-prem apps Functions Service Provider

Machines IaaS/PaaS
SaaS
Open Source Lifecycle AI/ML
Tools Management Stacks

Intelligent automation Data center IaaS/PaaS

Production
for real-time, Integration IaaS/PaaS

team Branch team

balancing risk, cost
Containers

Colo IaaS/PaaS
Edge Cloud backup
and control

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Infra and Ops
Cisco Intersight
Cloud operations platform

Intelligent visualization, optimization, and orchestration for applications

and infrastructure across public cloud and on-premises environments.
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 Simplify Optimize Accelerate
the management of your real-time with Supercharge
entire environment with a actionable data across solution delivery and
cloud-delivered platform the full stack, anywhere empower DevOps

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 Connecting people and technology in a hybrid
world App App App

Apps
Traditional Hybrid Cloud-native

DevOps Serverless

Service Management Containers

Support Virtual Machines

Governance and Security Bare Metal

Infra
Edge Branch Data center Colo Public Cloud

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 Integrated modular SaaS Offerings
App App App

Apps
Traditional Hybrid Cloud-native

DevOps Serverless

Intersight
Intersight Intersight
Terraform Service
Cloud Orchestrator Workload Optimizer
(Hashicorp)
Service Management Containers

Intersight Intersight
Virtualization Service Kubernetes Service

Support Virtual Machines

Intersight Infrastructure Service

Governance and Security Compute Storage Networking 3rd Party Infra Bare Metal

UCS/HX

Infra
Edge Branch Data center Colo Public Cloud
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 Simplify and
unify operations
Intersight with secure,
Architecture cloud-delivered
management

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 Architecture - SaaS TAC

• Case Open
• Contract Status
• Proactive RMA
• TechSupport / Log Upload

Intersight Portal HCL Intelligence

- Recommendation Engines
- Policy Management • Driver / Firmware Updates
- RBAC
- Licensing
- Automation Advisories
- Monitoring
- Analytics • PSIRT
SaaS • Software Deferrals
- Etc.
• Field Notices

Cisco / Cloud

Customer Premises
Device Device
Device Connector Connector
Connector
UCS Manager (API) HX Storage
BMC
(API) Controller VM
(API)

BMC
Connector
Device
C Series Server

Fabric Interconnect Attached Systems

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Intersight: Seamless Scalability

Intersight

UCS Manager IMC Software HX Connect Intersight Assist

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Device Connector
 Intersight Assist Appliance – Connectivity

DNS Requirements!
• A Record
Intersight • CNAME Record
• Reverse Lookup
Device
Connector

Hosting
Component
CIMC, UCSM, etc.

Cisco / Cloud
Device(s)

Device Connector “Proxy” Customer Premises

Device
Connector
Device vCenter
Connector
Hosting
Component
CIMC, UCSM, etc.
Intersight Assist Appliance
Generic HTTP
(OVA) Purity
Device(s)
Hypervisor Hitachi
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Intersight Assist
Configuration and Monitoring

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 Architecture – Connected Appliance
TAC

intersight.com • Case Open

• Contract Status (roadmap)
• TechSupport / Log Upload

HCL Intelligence
Device Connector
• Driver / Firmware Updates
Intersight Portal
- Recommendation Engines Advisories (roadmap)
- Policy Management
- RBAC • PSIRT
- Licensing • Software Deferrals
- Automation • Field Notices
- Monitoring
- Analytics
On-Prem
- Etc.
Connected Appliance

Device Device
Device Connector Connector
Connector
UCS Manager (API) HX Storage
BMC
(API) Controller VM
(API)

BMC
Connector
Device
C Series Server

Fabric Interconnect Attached Systems

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 Architecture – Intersight Private Appliance
TAC

intersight.com • Case Open

• Tech Support / Log Upload
(Manual Upload)

HCL Intelligence
Device Connector
• Driver / Firmware Updates
Intersight Portal (Packaged in Appliance)
- Recommendation Engines
- Policy Management Advisories (roadmap)
- RBAC
- Licensing • PSIRT
- Automation • Field Notices
- Monitoring • Software Deferrals
- Analytics
On-Prem
- Etc.
Connected Appliance

Device Device
Device Connector Connector
Connector
UCS Manager (API) HX Storage
BMC
(API) Controller VM
(API)

BMC
Connector
Device
C Series Server

Fabric Interconnect Attached Systems

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17
 Architecture – Intersight Private Appliance
TAC

intersight.com • Case Open

• Tech Support / Log Upload
(Manual Upload)

HCL Intelligence
Device Connector
• Driver / Firmware Updates
Intersight Portal (Packaged in Appliance)
- Recommendation Engines
- Policy Management Advisories (roadmap)
- RBAC
- Licensing • PSIRT
- Automation • Field Notices
- Monitoring • Software Deferrals
- Analytics
On-Prem
- Etc.
Connected Appliance

Device Device
Device Connector Connector
Connector
UCS Manager (API) HX Storage
BMC
(API) Controller VM
(API)

BMC
Connector
Device
C Series Server

Fabric Interconnect Attached Systems

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