Published by Cisco Press (December 8, 2022) © 2023
Matthew Baker | Brandon Beck | Doron Chosnek | Jason McGee | Sean McKeown | Bradley TerEick | Mohit VaswaniProduct Information
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
Foreword xviii
Introduction xix
Chapter 1 Intersight Foundations 1
Introduction 1
Intersight Architecture 1
Licensing 21
Summary 21
References 21
Chapter 2 Security 23
Introduction 23
Connectivity 23
Claiming 24
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) 26
Audit Logs 28
Data Security 29
Security Advantages 30
Summary 31
References 31
Chapter 3 Infrastructure Operations 33
Introduction 33
Device Health and Monitoring 33
Linking Intelligence Feeds 38
Integrated Support 47
Infrastructure Configuration 50
ITSM Integration 54
UCS Director Integration 56
Summary 61
References 61
Chapter 4 Server Operations 63
Introduction 63
Supported Systems 63
Server Actions 64
Server Deployment 69
Server Policies 69
ID Pools 70
Domain Management 73
Firmware Updates 80
Summary 83
Reference 83
Chapter 5 Network Operations 85
Introduction 85
Policy-Driven Network Infrastructure 85
Summary 90
Reference 90
Chapter 6 Storage Operations 91
Introduction 91
HyperFlex 92
Deploying HyperFlex Clusters 101
Managing HX Clusters 105
Traditional Storage Operations 113
Summary 116
References 116
Chapter 7 Virtualization Operations 117
Introduction 117
Claiming a vCenter Target 118
Claiming an AWS Target 120
Contextual Visibility 121
Contextual Operations 130
Virtualization Orchestration 132
Summary 134
Reference 134
Chapter 8 Kubernetes 135
Introduction 135
Intersight Kubernetes Service 136
Benefits of IKS 138
Cluster Management 139
Intersight Workload Engine 161
Summary 165
References 166
Chapter 9 Workload Optimization 167
Introduction 167
Users and Roles 169
Targets and Configuration 170
The Supply Chain 172
Actions 174
Groups and Policies 175
Planning and Placement 180
The Public Cloud 182
Summary 185
References 185
Chapter 10 Orchestration 187
Introduction 187
Automation and Orchestration 187
Intersight Orchestration 188
Use Cases 200
Summary 203
Chapter 11 Programmability 205
Introduction 205
Client SDKs 209
Authentication and Authorization 210
Crawl, Walk, Run 213
Advanced Usage 237
Next Steps: Use Cases 244
Summary 255
References 255
Chapter 12 Infrastructure as Code 257
Introduction 257
What Is Infrastructure as Code? 258
HashiCorp Terraform 262
Intersight and Infrastructure as Code 263
IST and Intersight Cloud Orchestrator 272
Summary 273
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