Cisco Intersight Reviews

Cisco Intersight has valuable features for workflow automation and inventory administration.

The product could be easy to use, similar to CloudIQ. Additionally, they should provide more information to make decisions.

We are a Cisco partner. Thus, we communicate directly with cloud specialists in their technical support team.

Positive

The initial setup process is easy.

I rate Cisco Intersight a seven out of ten.

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

I am still assessing the solution's features since I haven't found it to be all that valuable till now.

There is still some work to be done on the solution. It does take care of the monitoring part but doesn't do it too well. Functionality-wise, it also doesn't manage as well as it used to do in the past.

In the future, the solution needs to plan on an extension to cover a broader range of objects since, at present, there are some Cisco devices within the range of Intersight UCS that it can't manage.

I have been using Cisco Intersight for about six months. I am using the solution in our company. I am using the solution's latest version. My company has a partnership with Cisco Intersight.

The solution's overall stability is pretty fine.

It is a scalable solution.

Only a dozen employees are using the solution in my company.

Our company plans to increase the solution's usage in the future.

The technical support by Cisco is very good. I rate the technical support an eight out of ten.

Positive

I use SolarWinds NPM. Though SolarWinds NPM and Cisco Intersight are used for slightly different purposes, they are both essentially used for monitoring.

SolarWinds NPM is able to monitor a much larger range of devices compared to Cisco Intersigh. Intershight can predominantly be used for other Cisco devices only.

The product is deployed on-premises.

The product was easy to implement.

The deployment phase was done in a week.

One person was required for the implementation process.

During the installation procedure, the tool was deployed the way I needed it.

I was involved in the solution's installation.

Market share is one advantage Cisco Intersight has over its competitors.

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.

Our primary use case is for monitoring locations. We are partners with Cisco.

I find the integrations to be the most valuable feature. 

One of the issues is that they are integrating a lot of technologies into the product and when new features appear, the service becomes full of bugs and doesn't work. I have to wait while they go back and make the application stable again. I'd like to see more integration with other companies. 

I've been using this solution for three years. 

The solution is stable most of the time, it's only when new features are added that it becomes less stable. 

The solution is pretty scalable. 

The initial setup is simple. 

I rate this product a seven out of 10. 

I use it mostly for managing servers and updating their hardware licenses to get the hardware status in the cloud. Mostly, my customers develop Intersight on-premises because there are many restrictions from regulatory bodies for cloud sessions or going to the cloud for any data. 

It is almost always implemented as on-premises. There are many servers to look after; previously, it was for HX. If customers are currently going for HCI, we will need Nutanix and Intersight.

We no longer need to use Fabric Interconnect. We can directly use Intersight to bring up the cluster of HCI. I have seen an ROI from this solution. This solution has provided time savings and required fewer people to operate this tool, rather than direct cost savings.

I do not have notes for improvement. 

I have used the solution for not more than two years.

Most of my customers don't complain, so stability seems to be okay.

I don't need to go beyond the scale I have.

For Intersight, and in general, Cisco provides better support than anyone else. However, sometimes it depends on the engineer. 

Positive

I rate it a ten out of ten. I don't have any issues with it.

We implement it.

I have seen an ROI from this solution. It's not just in terms of cost savings. It is also in time savings and requiring fewer people to operate this tool. Sometimes it's about indirect costs as well. The solutions are good.

There is another grid in the market. Customers are looking for other solutions more often. They are going with solutions that provide all solutions together, like Nutanix, which can implement everything without needing two solutions from two different vendors. I think it is okay in this case.

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.