Cisco Intersight: A Handbook for Intelligent Cloud Operations

Cisco Intersight: A Handbook for Intelligent Cloud Operations

by Matthew Baker, Brandon Beck, Doron Chosnek, Jason McGee, Sean McKeown, Bradley TerEick, Mohit Vaswani
Released October 2022
Publisher(s): Cisco Press
ISBN: 9780137937271

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Book description

Use Cisco Intersight to streamline, unify, and secure IT operations across data centers, clouds, and the edge

The Cisco Intersight cloud operations platform delivers intelligent visualization, optimization, and orchestration for applications and infrastructure across any hybrid cloud environment. Using it, you can operate and maintain traditional infrastructure with the agility of cloud-native infrastructure, as you enhance stability and governance in cloud-native environments.

This unique guide shows how to use Intersight to transform heterogeneous IT environments and simplify operations throughout your organization. It has been authored by Cisco insiders with 150+ years of combined experience across every key role associated with enterprise datacenters and cloud technology.

The authors cover all facets of Intersight architecture, planning, and administration--from foundational concepts and security to operating infrastructure, servers, networks, storage, virtualization, and workloads--with chapters on Kubernetes, orchestration, programmability, and Infrastructure as Code.

Cisco Intersight: A Handbook for Intelligent Cloud Operations is for every IT operator, administrator, manager, and director responsible for operations, programming/automation, information gathering, or monitoring, as well as decision-makers evaluating Intersight or leading implementation. Whatever your role in operating disparate data centers, clouds, and edge environments, Intersight will radically simplify your work--and this guide will help you maximize its value.

  • Understand the platform architecture underlying Intersight's capabilities

  • Establish a cohesive approach to securing all your services

  • Explore Intersight's infrastructure operations capabilities, and integrate with other ops platforms

  • Deploy, configure, operate, and update Cisco UCS servers and network infrastructure

  • Centralize storage management, from Cisco HyperFlex to traditional storage

  • Control virtualized compute infrastructure, on-premises or in the cloud

  • Simplify deployment and management of Kubernetes clusters and service meshes

  • Use Workload Optimization to continually assure performance, minimize cost, and maximize utilization

  • Operationalize repeatable activities across the enterprise

  • Get started with Intersight programmability, learning from easy examples

  • Learn how "code-ifying" infrastructure can improve compliance and reduce risk

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. About This eBook
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Pearson’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  6. Figure Credits
  7. About the Authors
  8. Dedications
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Contents at a Glance
  11. Reader Services
  12. Contents
  13. Foreword
  14. Introduction
    1. Who This Book Is For
    2. How This Book Is Organized
    3. How This Book Is Structured
  15. Chapter 1 Intersight Foundations
    1. Introduction
    2. Intersight Architecture
    3. Licensing
    4. Summary
    5. References
  16. Chapter 2 Security
    1. Introduction
    2. Connectivity
    3. Claiming
    4. Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
    5. Audit Logs
    6. Data Security
    7. Security Advantages
    8. Summary
    9. References
  17. Chapter 3 Infrastructure Operations
    1. Introduction
    2. Device Health and Monitoring
    3. Linking Intelligence Feeds
    4. Integrated Support
    5. Infrastructure Configuration
    6. ITSM Integration
    7. UCS Director Integration
    8. Summary
    9. References
  18. Chapter 4 Server Operations
    1. Introduction
    2. Supported Systems
    3. Server Actions
    4. Server Deployment
    5. Domain Management
    6. Firmware Updates
    7. Summary
    8. Reference
  19. Chapter 5 Network Operations
    1. Introduction
    2. Policy-Driven Network Infrastructure
    3. Summary
    4. Reference
  20. Chapter 6 Storage Operations
    1. Introduction
    2. HyperFlex
    3. Deploying HyperFlex Clusters
    4. Managing HX Clusters
    5. Traditional Storage Operations
    6. Summary
    7. References
  21. Chapter 7 Virtualization Operations
    1. Introduction
    2. Claiming a vCenter Target
    3. Claiming an AWS Target
    4. Contextual Visibility
    5. Contextual Operations
    6. Virtualization Orchestration
    7. Summary
    8. Reference
  22. Chapter 8 Kubernetes
    1. Introduction
    2. Intersight Kubernetes Service
    3. Benefits of IKS
    4. Cluster Management
    5. Intersight Workload Engine
    6. Summary
    7. References
  23. Chapter 9 Workload Optimization
    1. Introduction
    2. Users and Roles
    3. Targets and Configuration
    4. The Supply Chain
    5. Actions
    6. Groups and Policies
    7. Planning and Placement
    8. The Public Cloud
    9. Summary
    10. References
  24. Chapter 10 Orchestration
    1. Introduction
    2. Automation and Orchestration
    3. Intersight Orchestration
    4. Use Cases
    5. Summary
  25. Chapter 11 Programmability
    1. Introduction
    2. Client SDKs
    3. Authentication and Authorization
    4. Crawl, Walk, Run
    5. Advanced Usage
    6. Next Steps: Use Cases
    7. Summary
    8. References
  26. Chapter 12 Infrastructure as Code
    1. Introduction
    2. What Is Infrastructure as Code?
    3. HashiCorp Terraform
    4. Intersight and Infrastructure as Code
    5. IST and Intersight Cloud Orchestrator
    6. Summary
  27. Index
  28. Code Snippets

Product information

  • Title: Cisco Intersight: A Handbook for Intelligent Cloud Operations
  • Author(s): Matthew Baker, Brandon Beck, Doron Chosnek, Jason McGee, Sean McKeown, Bradley TerEick, Mohit Vaswani
  • Release date: October 2022
  • Publisher(s): Cisco Press
  • ISBN: 9780137937271