Cisco Intersight (INSIG)
Description
Cisco Intersight (INSIG) v2.0 is a 2-day instructor-led or virtual course that covers architecture, configuration and operation of Cisco Intersight, and is designed to serve the needs of engineers seeking to understand the capabilities of Cisco Intersight for managing data centers from a single management platform.
This class will help you use Cisco Intersight to:
- Use SaaS or on-prem version of Intersight to enable IT organizations to analyze, simplify, and automate their environments in more advanced ways than the prior generations of tools
- Gain hands-on experience using Cisco Intersight
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Objectives
After taking this course, you should be able to:
- Describe Intersight Managed Systems such as Cisco UCS, Cisco Hyperflex, Pure Storage
- Describe benefits and use cases of Cisco Intersight
- Understand deferences between Cisco Intersight SaaS, virtual appliance and air-gap appliance
- Setup Cisco Intersight account and claim devices to Intersight
- Setup Role Based Access Control (RBAC), organizations, and generate API keys and setup IP access management to Cisco Interisght
- Explain and implement various features of Cisco Intersight
- Explain differences between Basic, Essential, Advantage and Premier licensing
Outline
Introduction to Intersight Managed Systems
Introducing Cisco Intersight
Cisco Intersight - Setup and Administration
Cisco Intersight - Key features
Licensing and Success Stories
Lab outline
- Cisco UCS Management Portfolio
- Cisco HyperFlex
- Cisco UCS Director
- Cisco SD-WAN
- Pure-Storage Device Management
- Cisco Workload Optimisation Manager
Introducing Cisco Intersight
- Why Cisco Intersight
- Cisco Intersight Overview
- Intersight Device Connector
- Cisco Intersight SaaS
- Cisco Intersight Virtual Appliance
Cisco Intersight - Setup and Administration
- Prerequisites
- Setting up Cisco Intersight Account
- Claiming devices with Intersight Assist
- User Addition and RBAC
- Setting up SSO
- Cisco Intersight Security
- Cisco Intersight GUI Overview
- Cisco Intersight API Access
- Intersight Applicance Settings
- Intersight Private Virtual Appliance
- Cisco Intersight Organisations
- Cisco IP Access Management
Cisco Intersight - Key features
- Support Contract Status Feature
- Connected Cisco TAC
- Searching and Tagging Options in Intersight
- UCS Server Features
- Software Repositories
- Firmware Upgrades
- Installing OS from Intersight
- Policies and Profiles for UCS Servers
- Fabric Interconnect Features
- Context-launch and Tunneling Features
- Hyperflex Installer
- Hyperflex Upgrade Feature
- Hyperflex Cluster Capacity Planning
- Cisco HyperFlex SD-WAN
- Intersight Server Compatibility (HCL)
- Advisories
- Service-Now Integration
- Virtualisation
- Storage Features
- Orchestration
- Intersight Workload Optimizer
- Cisco Intersight Mobile App
Licensing and Success Stories
- Cisco Intersight License Status
- Licensing
- License Activation in Intersight
- Multiple Licensing Tears
- Intersight Success Stories
Lab outline
- Claiming Cisco Intersight Devices
- Introduction to Cisco Intersight GUI
- Managing Cisco UCS C-Series Server (M5)
- Installing Cisco Hyperflex Edge 4.0 with Intersight
- Demo: Cisco Intersight with Pure Storage
Prerequisite Knowledge
To fully benefit from this course, you should have the following knowledge:
- Understanding of server system design and architecture
- Familiarity with Cloud concepts
- Familiarity with converged and Hyper-Converged infrastructure