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Contents
Product overview 3
Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service technical features and benefits 4
Flexible deployment options 6
Cisco Intersight Assist 6
Monitoring and capacity planning 7
Enhanced automation and orchestration 7
Cisco HyperFlex cluster deployment 8
Customizable dashboard and mobile app 9
Proactive support 10
Hardware compliance 10
Supported software 11
Virtual appliance system requirements 11
Licensing 12
Ordering information 13
Simplify application resource management with Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer 13
Cisco environmental sustainability 14
Cisco Capital 14
For more information 14
Document history 15

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Product overview
Cisco Intersight® Infrastructure Service is an infrastructure lifecycle management solution delivered as-a-service
or as a connected or private virtual appliance. It helps IT operations teams see, control, and automate their
compute, storage, and networking infrastructure—wherever it is—from one place. Intersight Infrastructure
Service is a core module of the Cisco Intersight IT operations platform that provides a single dashboard for
managing and automating your global infrastructure throughout its lifecycle. Intersight Infrastructure Service
supports the Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®) and Cisco HyperFlex® hyperconverged
infrastructure, Cisco® networking platforms, virtualization and container platforms, third-party servers and
storage, and other integration endpoints. Because it is SaaS software, Intersight Infrastructure Service
functionality increases and expands with weekly releases.

With Intersight Infrastructure Service, you get all of the benefits of SaaS delivery and full lifecycle management
of distributed infrastructure and workloads across data centers, remote sites, branch offices, and edge
environments. This empowers you to deploy, configure, secure, update, maintain, automate, and scale your
environment through a cloud-operating model in ways that were not previously possible. As a result, your
organization can operate with consistency and control, stay in compliance, and strengthen your security posture
to deliver IT infrastructure, resources, and applications faster to support business growth.

For Cisco infrastructure, Intersight Infrastructure Service works in conjunction with Cisco UCS Manager, Cisco
Integrated Management Controller (IMC), and Cisco HyperFlex Connect. In addition, Intersight Infrastructure
Service integrates with third-party storage, servers, virtualization, and other SaaS services. You can simply
associate a model-based configuration to provision servers and associated storage and fabric automatically,
regardless of form factor. Using profiles, IT staff can consistently align policy, server personality, and
workloads. These policies can be created once and used to simplify server deployments, resulting in improved
productivity and compliance, and lower risk of failures due to inconsistent configuration. In addition, Cisco
provides integrations to third-party operations tools, such as ServiceNow, to allow customers to use their
existing solutions more efficiently.

Intersight is my best friend. We use it daily, if not hourly, to manage globally distributed infrastructure
and workloads. No more logs, no more spreadsheets.

Scott Adametz
Director of Technology for Riot Esports

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Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service technical features and benefits
Table 1. Main features and benefits

Feature Benefits

Unified monitoring and ● Simplify the monitoring and management of Cisco and third-party compute, network, storage,
management integrated systems, virtualization, and container resources, all from one IT operations platform.
● Increase scale across data centers and remote locations without additional complexity.
● Use unified dashboards for at-a-glance insights across Cisco and third-party resources.
● Cisco UCS Manager, Cisco IMC software, Cisco HyperFlex Connect, and Cisco UCS Director
tunneling allow access to element managers that do not have local network access.

Configuration, ● All Cisco and third-party resources can be allocated and reallocated among application workloads for
provisioning, and more dynamic and efficient use of IT capacity.
installation ● Policy-based profiles and templates for deployment and configuration enable you to consistently
provision and operate your IT infrastructure and resources, maintain standardization, eliminate
configuration errors, and minimize configuration drift.
● Leverage policies and templates or clone profiles to quickly provision Cisco UCS or HyperFlex
servers, regardless of where they are deployed.
● Create, deploy, and manage Cisco HyperFlex configurations.

● Install vMedia-based operating systems on the managed UCS servers.

Security ● Built with security top-of-mind

◦ Supports industry-standard security protocols including HTTPS, TLS, and AES.
◦ Complies with Cisco InfoSec security and data handling standards, including encryption of all
data.*
◦ ISO 27001 certified: standard for information security management systems.
◦ SOC 2 Type 2 certified: meets controls for confidentiality, security, and availability, among others.
◦ Trusted Cloud Provider of the Cloud Security Alliance with STAR Level One security trust
assurance.
◦ Role-based access control authorizes and restricts system access based on user roles and
privileges.
◦ Support for external identity providers using SAML 2.0 can be configured in Cisco Intersight to
authenticate users.
◦ Management network separation: application workload data does not pass through to Intersight so
no disruption to IT production workloads occurs if the Intersight connection is interrupted.
● Operate with security top-of-mind
◦ Security advisories identified by Cisco’s Product Security Incident Response Team alert you to
potential risks and provide threat summaries, identify devices impacted in your environment, and
provide recommended remediation.
◦ Audit logs record all actions taken on your infrastructure and can be filtered and/or searched by
time stamps, affected objects, events, user logins/logouts, and more to facilitate SecOps
investigations.
◦ Integrates with security information and event management (SIEM) platforms like Splunk through
the Intersight API.
◦ Continuous identification of potential hardware compatibility issues in your environment against
Cisco’s Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) alert you to potential device inconsistencies and provide
recommended actions to remediate.
◦ Integrates with webhooks to enable automatic notifications when threats or vulnerabilities in your
infrastructure are identified.
◦ Provides end-of-life notices and device-support contract status to help ensure that infrastructure
and infrastructure support are up to date.
*
For details on data collection in the Cisco Intersight platform, see the privacy data map of cloud services
delivered by the Intersight platform on Cisco’s Trust Portal here and the Intersight privacy data sheet
here.

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 Feature Benefits

Note: Intersight’s out-of-band management architecture makes it out of scope for some
standards and/or audits, including PCI DDS (customer traffic, including cardholder data, does
not flow through the Cisco Intersight platform) and HIPAA (no individually identifiable health
information on the network is ever sent to the Cisco Intersight portal), although Intersight’s
data centers are PCI/HIPAA-compliant.

Automation and workflow ● Use a drag-and-drop designer to create and execute complex orchestrations across multiple
orchestration infrastructure domains, applications, and external endpoints.
● Start from a library of out-of-the-box automation tasks supporting operations across Cisco and third-
party compute, network, storage, integrated systems, virtualization, containers, and other automation
engines such as HashiCorp Terraform and Red Hat Ansible.
● Use the custom task designer to create your own library of automated operations using open
standards such as HTTP/API, Ansible, PowerShell, SSH, and more.
● Use out-of-the-box workflows or create your own workflows by assembling tasks along with logical
controls and loops. Built-in data transformation features help you adapt the format and flow of
information as it passes through different domain automation and tasks.
● Both workflow designer and custom task designer provide a drag-and-drop UI to simplify authoring
with a low/no-code user experience.
● Share your creations with colleagues or communities with import and export features.
● All or any part of a workflow may be rolled back to simplify deprovisioning or to address individual
issues.

Inventory information, ● Display and report inventory information for Cisco and third-party compute, network, storage,
status, and capacity integrated systems, virtualization, and containers.
planning ● Use global search to rapidly identify systems based on names, identifiers, tags, and other information.
● Monitor alerts and health status for IT infrastructure across data centers and remote locations.

● Monitor and proactively manage HyperFlex storage capacity.

● Track and manage firmware and platform software versions for Intersight-connected systems and
across supported integrated infrastructures such as FlexPod.
● Track and manage software versions and automated patch updates for Cisco UCS Director software
installations.

Power management ● Set and apply power policies at the server or chassis level to control fan speed, BIOS settings, and
power profiling settings to ensure systems operate with intended power usage.
● Set policies across servers within a chassis to prioritize workloads and cap chassis-level power
consumption in the event of high power demand or limited power availability.

Enhanced support and ● Raise service requests and proactively authorize Return Materials Authorizations (RMAs).
end-customer experience ● Get centralized alerts about failure notifications.
● Automate the generation, forwarding, and analysis of technical support files to the Cisco Technical
Assistance Center (TAC) to accelerate the troubleshooting process.
● View current support contact status across the portfolio of managed systems to ensure systems have
the expected level of support.

REST API ● Provides a RESTful API to manage IT infrastructure and resources across multiple data centers and
edge locations.
● Supports the OpenAPI Specification (OAS) to provide full programmability and deep integration.
● The Python and PowerShell SDKs enable integrations with Ansible, Chef, Puppet, and other DevOps
and IT Operations Management (ITOM) tools.
● ServiceNow integration lets you ingest data from Cisco Intersight into the ServiceNow CMDB so you
can see your Intersight-connected inventory in the ServiceNow IT operations management platform
and resolve issues faster.

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 Feature Benefits

Hardware compatibility list ● Evaluate and mitigate the impact of service issues from running non-validated combinations of
(HCL) firmware, server models, processors, adapters, operating systems, and driver versions.
● Use the Cisco UCS tools add-on for VMware, or the OS discovery tool (an open-source script) to
collect OS and driver information to evaluate HCL compliance.

Seamless integration and ● Upgrade firmware and software for UCS domains, UCS servers, HyperFlex clusters, and UCS Director
upgrades instances. Installation is supported for Cisco HyperFlex Edge and HyperFlex with Fabric Interconnect
(FI) clusters.
● Upgrades to Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service are delivered automatically without requiring the
resources of traditional management tool upgrades and operational disruptions.

Mobile app ● Access Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service on Android and iOS devices for a mobility-optimized
(not available for virtual connection to resources managed in your account.
appliance or private virtual ● Stay up-to-date with the status of your environment and connect with members of your IT
appliance) organization to address critical issues on the go.
● Open Cisco TAC cases.
● Have access to multi-language support.

Tunneled vKVM ● Capability to launch tunneled virtual Keyboard, Video, and Mouse (KVM) sessions for Cisco UCS C-
Series standalone servers.

Flexible deployment options

Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service is SaaS software with the flexibility of advanced deployment options. You
can take advantage of new features as they become available from Cisco without the challenges and
complexity of maintaining your management tools.

The majority of our users enjoy the benefits of full SaaS management from Intersight instances in the eastern
United States and Germany. Users can connect Cisco infrastructure directly to Intersight and connect third-
party systems through a Cisco Intersight Assist on-premises appliance (more details below). However, if you
have data locality or security needs for managing systems that may not accommodate a full SaaS model, you
can leverage the on-premises Cisco Intersight Connected Virtual Appliance to connect those systems.

Alternately, the Cisco Intersight Private Virtual Appliance provides an easy way to deploy a VMware Open
Virtual Appliance (OVA), which can be configured, deployed, and run on-premises without an internet
connection. The Private Virtual Appliance allows you to take advantage of much of the SaaS functionality
without connectivity back to Intersight.com. Both the Intersight Connected Virtual Appliance and Private Virtual
Appliance provide advantages over conventional on-premises management tools.

Cisco Intersight Assist

The Cisco Intersight Assist enables you to claim third-party infrastructure, platforms, and other endpoints that
are not directly SaaS-connected to Intersight, so they can become Intersight-managed. For example, you can
use Intersight Assist to manage VMware, NetApp, Pure, Hitachi, and other on-premises infrastructure and
platforms. Cisco Intersight Assist is deployed as a VM appliance running on premises, installed using an OVA
that is available on Cisco.com. To learn more details about how Intersight Assist extends Intersight
management to on-premises, third-party infrastructure and platforms, visit our help site. To learn how to install
Cisco Intersight Assist, watch this video.

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Monitoring and capacity planning
To support the complex environments created by modern applications and the dramatically increasing number
of infrastructure endpoints, enterprises require analytics integrated tightly with their operations management
tools. To enable these analytics capabilities, every Cisco UCS server, Cisco HyperFlex system, or Cisco UCS
Director instance is configured to automatically connect and transmit to Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service
certain telemetry information over a secure channel (including serial numbers and IP addresses, the versions of
Cisco software installed on an endpoint, and feature use data).

As an example of monitoring and capacity planning within Intersight Infrastructure Service, the HyperFlex
performance chart provides details of the cluster performance for HyperFlex clusters and a snapshot of the
configurable amount of time, showing input/output operations per second (IOPS), throughput, and latency data.
Using the historical data of used storage capacity along with the predicted storage utilization per HyperFlex
cluster, you can proactively scale the storage utilization on the HyperFlex clusters. An alarm is raised when the
storage utilization is predicted to exceed the recommended capacity limit.

Enhanced automation and orchestration

Model-based deployment

Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service provides model-based deployment for Cisco and third-party compute,
network, storage, integrated systems, virtualization, and containers. For example, a Cisco UCS C-Series rack
server can be set up quickly and easily by replicating an existing server profile for rapid configuration. The
model-based deployment works for a single system in a remote location or hundreds of systems in a data
center to enable rapid, standardized configuration and deployment. Similarly, HyperFlex platforms can be sent
to their destination, have basic internet connectivity established locally, and then be configured and set up
remotely through the cloud-based HyperFlex installer.
Automation and workflow orchestration

Intersight Infrastructure Service includes a drag-and-drop automation and workflow designer to create and
execute complex workflows of operational tasks across Intersight-managed Cisco and third-party compute,
network, storage, integrated systems, virtualization, and containers. A central workflow engine sequences the
steps in workflows and automates their execution. A workflow executes a set of tasks, each designed to
automate specific operations (for example, create, read, update, or delete) on any infrastructure or platform
element. Workflows can consist of one or more tasks arranged to execute sequentially, repeatedly, in parallel,
or conditionally, or they can include sub-workflows to help organize or reuse automation.

Users can select from a library of prebuilt tasks that automate popular operations across Cisco and third-party
compute, network, storage, integrated systems, virtualization, and containers. These prebuilt library tasks are
preintegrated with access to infrastructure models, inventory, and configuration information managed within
Intersight to simplify task configuration and workflow creation. For example, to automate configuration of a VM
property, a preintegrated task can enable the author to select which VM to operate on from the existing
inventory of VMs that user can access. The preintegrated modeling could allow a workflow author to easily
traverse to that VM’s parent hypervisor host for additional configuration, the parent server operating the
hypervisor, networks attached to that server, etc. Preintegrated configuration information also allows the
orchestration author to control automation by other criteria.

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In addition to the preintegrated automation task library, you can create your own custom tasks with the task
designer using a variety of open integration methods such as constructing HTTP-based API calls, executing
Ansible playbooks, PowerShell, or SSH.

A variety of workflows for popular orchestration use cases are included. You can also modify existing workflows
or create your own using the workflow designer. The drag-and-drop designer makes it easy to assemble
preintegrated tasks, custom tasks, and sub-workflows along with conditional statements and loops to construct
any end-to-end orchestration you need across Cisco and third-party compute, network, storage, integrated
systems, virtualization, and containers. For more information on automation and workflow orchestration, visit our
help site.

Cisco HyperFlex cluster deployment

Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service provides an installation wizard to install, configure, and deploy Cisco
HyperFlex Edge and HyperFlex with fabric interconnect clusters. The wizard constructs a preconfiguration
definition of your cluster, called a HyperFlex cluster profile. This definition is a logical representation of the
HyperFlex nodes in your HyperFlex cluster. HyperFlex cluster profiles are built on policies that define sets of
rules and operating characteristics, such as node identity, interfaces, and network connectivity. After gathering
the node configuration settings to build a HyperFlex cluster profile, the installation wizard validates and deploys
the HyperFlex cluster profile. More information is available on our help site.
REST API

Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service includes an API based on the OpenAPI specification, a powerful definition
format to describe RESTful APIs. Support for the OpenAPI specification provides users with access to an
interoperable REST API with tools that automate the generation of the Intersight API documentation, API
schemas, and SDKs. The Intersight API includes fully functional Python and PowerShell SDKs.

The API is an integral part of the broader open connector framework Cisco has established to enable the
Intersight ecosystem to evolve. We currently support a ServiceNow plug-in to ingest and view Intersight
inventory and view their relationships in the ServiceNow IT operations management platform. The ecosystem
will be expanded to support a wide range of Cisco and third-party DevOps software.

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Figure 1.
Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service dashboard

Customizable dashboard and mobile app

Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service provides a dashboard (Figure 1) that spans Cisco UCS, Cisco HyperFlex,
and third-party compute, network, storage, integrated systems, virtualization, and containers. The dashboard is
user-customizable, allowing you to focus on the information and tasks that are relevant to your needs. You can
create, customize, rename, and manage multiple dashboard views by adding, removing, or rearranging widgets
on the dashboard. Intersight supports the display of up to 30 widgets per dashboard. This global dashboard
includes features such as:

● Global inventory: Get information about inventory across supported systems, whether they are in the
data center or at remote locations.
● Fault monitoring: Manage faults and set up alerting for all managed systems.
● Firmware status: Monitor and manage firmware versions.

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Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service allows you to monitor systems from a single management tool. However,
if you need to look more deeply into a specific platform, IIS provides:

● Cross-launch capabilities for virtual Keyboard, Video, and Mouse (KVM) sessions.
● Tunneling capabilities for Cisco UCS Manager, Cisco UCS Director, Cisco IMC software, and Cisco
HyperFlex Connect to allow secure access to the manager, whether you are inside or outside the
corporate network.

The Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service mobile app provides visibility on-the-go with its intuitive view of
Intersight-connected systems. You can conveniently keep an eye on your data center and edge environments—
anywhere, anytime. The mobile app is an Apple and Android application to monitor inventory, tasks, and alerts.
You can also take actions, such as turning on LED locators and opening Cisco support cases.

Proactive support
The telemetry data and incidents collected from the Cisco Intersight‒installed base are transmitted using secure
communication mechanisms, and this information is available for use by the Cisco Technical Assistance Center
(TAC) to provide insights and more proactive support. When combined with Cisco Smart Call Home, TAC cases
can be automatically opened for certain faults. No matter how a TAC case is opened, if the system is connected
to Cisco Intersight, the log files are automatically read from the system, attached to the TAC case, and
automatically analyzed for known issues. For certain types of hardware failures, Return-Materials-Authorization
(RMA) cases are automatically opened. The Cisco Intersight and TAC integration speeds case resolution, limits
the impact on IT personnel, and ultimately increases system uptime.

Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service also enables users to provide more direct feedback to our products. In
addition, the tight integration with the TAC extends the solution scope by enhancing continuous delivery to
further speed up fixes and future development.

Hardware compliance
Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service evaluates your hardware and firmware compatibility to help ensure that
your system is compliant with the Cisco Hardware Compatibility List. This process identifies unsupported
configurations and alerts you to any potential problems that may arise from unknowingly running unsupported
configurations.

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Supported software
Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service supports Cisco UCS and Cisco HyperFlex platforms with the software
versions listed in Table 2.

Table 2. Supported software

Platform Versions supported

Cisco UCS Manager Release 3.2(1) and later

Cisco IMC Software Release 3.0(4) and later

Cisco HyperFlex Release 2.5.1 and later

Cisco UCS Director Release 6.6 and later

Pure Storage FlashArray Purity version 4.8 (API version 1.7) and later

VMware vCenter 6.7, 7.0, 8.0, and later

See the product documentation for a more detailed list of supported versions and caveats.

Virtual appliance system requirements

The Cisco Intersight Virtual Appliance and Private Virtual Appliance OVAs can be deployed on VMware ESXi 6.0
and higher. Table 3 describes the minimum system requirements. For additional information see the
Getting Started Guide.

Table 3. Minimum system requirements

Item Requirement

Supported hypervisors VMware ESXi 7.0 and higher

Storage 500 GB

RAM 32 GB

vCPUs 16

See product documentation for more details and sizing guidelines.

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Licensing
Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service is licensed on a subscription basis with a choice of license editions.
Capabilities increase with the different license tiers. Customers can purchase a subscription duration of one,
three, or five years and choose the Cisco UCS server volume tier they need for the selected subscription
duration.

Starting from the M7 server generation, an Intersight Essentials or above license is required. Every M7 server is
bundled with a license.

For earlier server generations, an Intersight license is highly recommended, but not required.

Customers can purchase an Essentials or above license when they purchase the server using the Cisco
Ordering tool. See Table 4 for ordering PIDs.

Table 4. Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service tier

License tier Description

Essentials Includes functionality for server lifecycle management, for example:

● Platform-level settings for user and SDK/API access, permissions, licensing, and audit. Support for
health monitoring, tagging and search, basic data inventory, and multifactor authentication.
● Support for Cisco UCS and HyperFlex basic inventory, firmware, and dashboard management.
● Simplification of compute infrastructure management with policy-based configurations using server
profiles for Cisco UCS and HyperFlex.
● Power policy management for servers, BIOS, and OS as well as dynamic power rebalancing.
● Installation, monitoring, and upgrading of HyperFlex clusters. Use Intersight as an invisible cloud
witness for Cisco HyperFlex Edge.
● FlexPod converged infrastructure inventory, including servers, SAN switching, storage, VMware
virtualization, and Cisco fabric interconnects.
● Capability to connect with Dell PowerEdge and HPE ProLiant Servers or other third-party servers
through the Redfish API.
● Receiving alerts about endpoint devices that are impacted by supported security advisories and field
notices along with recommended remediation.
● Acceleration of troubleshooting with hardware compatibility alerts, proactive RMAs, and automated
gathering and uploading of log files for Cisco Intersight–connected devices through the Cisco
Technical Assistance Center (TAC).

Note: Detailed feature list can be found here: Intersight.com Licensing Page

Advantage Offers all of the functionality of Essentials, plus features for automation, orchestration, and
advanced server management. For example:
● Create and execute complex workflows with a drag-and-drop designer or incorporate existing
automations from Ansible, Terraform, or other tools using the Cisco Intersight API and SDKs.
● Simplify the cloud experience with visibility of virtualization infrastructure and normalization of
operations across multiple clouds.
● Resolve issues faster by ingesting Cisco Intersight–connected servers, storage, data-center
networking, and virtual machines into the ServiceNow IT operations management platform using the
Service Graph Connector for Cisco Intersight plug-in, available on the ServiceNow store.

Note: Detailed feature list can be found here: Intersight.com Licensing Page.

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Ordering information
Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service subscriptions can be ordered in one-year, three-year, and five-year
subscription periods. In addition, volume discounts are available for customers ordering more than 200 device
(server) subscriptions at the same time. Separate license options are detailed in Table 5 for the SaaS version on
Intersight.com and the virtual appliance.

Cisco Smart Accounts and Smart Licensing are mandatory for Cisco Intersight. In addition, a Cisco Connection
Online (CCO) user account is mandatory to use the Cisco Intersight user interface.

Note: The Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Services SaaS license allows the customer to select SaaS or
CVA (Connected Virtual Appliance) deployment options. Please refer to the Flexible Deployment Options
section for more information about CVA.

Table 5. Ordering information

Part number Description

DC-MGT-SAAS Product family – Cisco Intersight

DC-MGT-IS-SAAS-ES Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Services SaaS - Essentials

DC-MGT-IS-SAAS-AD Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Services SaaS - Advantage

DC-MGT-IS-PVAPP-ES Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Services Private Virtual Appliance - Essentials

DC-MGT-IS-PVAPP-AD Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Services Private Virtual Appliance - Advantage

Simplify application resource management with Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer

Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer (IWO) is an optional service that can be purchased with or without Cisco
Intersight Infrastructure Service. It is a real-time decision engine that ensures the health of applications across
your on-premises and public cloud environments while lowering public cloud costs. The intelligent software
continuously analyzes workload demand, resource consumption, public cloud resource costs, and policy
constraints to determine an optimal balance. IWO makes recommendations for workload placement and
resource allocation by systems in your data center and the public cloud, and in many cases can automate real-
time optimization.

The software can determine when, where, and how to move and resize workloads, taking advantage of the
elasticity of public-cloud resources and ensuring that on-premises resources are fully utilized. By tracking
historical data, Intersight Workload Optimizer can effectively model capacity planning and migration scenarios
to determine how much infrastructure you will need and when you will need it, reducing risk and ensuring
predictable performance and cost.

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Cisco environmental sustainability
Information about Cisco’s environmental sustainability policies and initiatives for our products, solutions,
operations, and extended operations or supply chain is provided in the “Environment Sustainability” section of
Cisco’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report.

Reference links to information about key environmental sustainability topics (mentioned in the “Environment
Sustainability” section of the CSR Report) are provided in Table 6.

Table 6. Environmental sustainability

Sustainability topic Reference

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Information on electronic waste laws and regulations, including products, batteries, and packaging WEEE compliance

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legal developments, and Cisco does not represent, warrant, or guarantee that it is complete, accurate, or up to
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Document history
New or revised topic Described in Date

Added security features Page 4, Features and benefits February 27, 2023

Added power management Page 4, Features and benefits February 27, 2023

Added Intersight Instance in Germany Page 6, Flexible deployment options February 27, 2023

Cisco Intersight Cloud Orchestrator changed to Page 8, Enhanced automation and workflow February 27, 2023
“Automation and workflow orchestration” orchestration

6.0, 6.5 removed; 7.0, 8.0 added Page 11, VMware VCenter versions supported February 27, 2023

6.0 removed; 7.0 added Page 11, VMware ESXi requirement February 27, 2023

Updated licensing requirements Page 12, Licensing February 27, 2023

Updated licensing tier table to reflect Essentials Pages 12-13, Licensing tier table February 27, 2023
and Advantage and corresponding functionality

Updated ordering information and ordering Page 13, Ordering information February 27, 2023
information table

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