Cisco Intersight

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

Matthew Baker, Brandon Beck, Doron Chosnek, Jason McGee, Sean McKeown, Bradley TerEick, and Mohit Vaswani are Solutions Architects within the Cisco Cloud Infrastructure & Software Group who are passionate about helping customers build high-value hybrid cloud and multi-cloud solutions. Every day, they work directly with Cisco customers and partners to combine Cisco, third-party, open-source, and public cloud technologies to achieve key business objectives.

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 9780137937288, TOC, 10/3/2022