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Cisco Intersight IT

Simplify IT operations for the AI era

Unified, intelligent management for Cisco UCS compute across data centers and edge locations. Accelerate AI initiatives and strengthen security with a cloud-native foundation.

Transform reactive IT into proactive innovation

Cisco Intersight provides a unified foundation for managing complex IT environments, delivering policy-based automation and visibility for traditional and AI-ready infrastructure.

Unified control for your entire estate

Consolidate disparate tools and automate complex tasks with a smarter, simpler way to operate IT infrastructure wherever it resides.

Management at scale

Centrally provision and manage AI-ready infrastructure across data centers and edge locations with policy-driven automation for consistent operations.

Assisted operations

Use intelligent insights and predictive analytics to automate monitoring and issue resolution, shifting from reactive to proactive operations.

Ecosystem integrations

Seamlessly integrate with third-party tools and Cisco networking to orchestrate workflows across the entire stack and maximize your investments.

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The business case: Forrester Total Economic Impact™ study of Cisco Intersight

See how it's possible to drive measurable ROI with Cisco Intersight. Based on a composite organization with 1000 servers, Forrester's TEI study found a 192% ROI and 80% faster deployments. See how proactive automation drove a $3.3 million net present value and payback in under six months. Explore the findings of the full commissioned study, conducted by Forrester Consulting in 2025.

Turn operational complexity into clarity

Move from manual, reactive firefighting to proactive, automated operations. Cisco Intersight simplifies management of distributed, AI-ready infrastructure at scale.

Reduce complexity

Replace manual, siloed tasks with policy-driven automation to manage your entire server fleet from a single dashboard, regardless of location or scale.

End fragmented visibility

Gain a holistic view of your distributed estate. Correlate telemetry with intelligent insights to identify and resolve issues before they impact performance.

Optimize for AI

Rightsize your investment with actionable metrics on GPU performance and power efficiency for demanding AI workloads.

Eliminate tool sprawl

Boost productivity by unifying operations on one platform. Intersight ends tool sprawl with a single, API-first dashboard for provisioning and full day-0 to day-N management.

Strengthen security

Protect your infrastructure with automated firmware updates, continuous configuration validation, and proactive security advisories that identify and remediate vulnerabilities at scale.

Increase agility

Shift from reactive maintenance to strategic projects, enabling your business to adapt and grow.

Compute portfolio

Cisco Intersight provides the most comprehensive set of infrastructure management capabilities for any Cisco UCS server form factor and most generations in one place.

Cisco UCS X series

Cisco UCS

Unified management boosts efficiency across UCS modular and rack servers for any workload.

FlashStack and FlexPod converged infrastructure racks featuring Cisco UCS servers, Cisco Nexus switches storage solutions for data centers.

Converged infrastructure

Integrated management unifies compute, networking, and storage for any workload. 

Two Cisco rack-mount servers stacked, showcasing the Cisco Compute for Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI).

Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix

Deep Nutanix integration simplifies and automates HCI cluster operations for any workload.

UCS C885A Server rack

Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA

Scalable, secure AI infrastructure with NVIDIA speeds delivery of trusted AI workloads.

UCS C845 Server rack

Cisco AI PODs

Prevalidated, full-stack AI PODs simplify and accelerate the entire AI lifecycle.

Cisco UCS XE9305 Chassis

Cisco Unified Edge

AI-ready edge system streamlines operations with zero-touch deployment. 

Rod Lucero, CTO, Xigent

"We can see and orchestrate all of the compute, storage, and networking systems in our data centers with Cisco Intersight."

 

Cisco Intersight licensing tiers

Essentials

Core infrastructure management

Ideal for teams needing unified visibility and proactive support. Streamline UCS management with policy-based configurations, firmware updates, and health monitoring across your entire distributed estate.

Foundations for efficiency

  • Global monitoring and inventory
  • Policy-based configuration with server profiles
  • Automated firmware management
  • Proactive security advisories and field notices
  • Energy and power consumption monitoring and metrics
  • Integrated Cisco TAC support and proactive RMA
  • Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix support
  • Custom explorations with Metrics Explorer
  • Data collection every 10 minutes with 90-day storage

Advantage

Advanced automation and scale

Designed for complex environments requiring full-stack orchestration and ecosystem integration. Scale operations with zero-touch edge provisioning, advanced analytics, and seamless ITSM workflows. 

Powering operational excellence

  • Includes all features provided in the Essentials tier
  • OS installation
  • Advanced workflow orchestration with drag-and-drop designer
  • Fleet management with zero-touch provisioning for edge
  • Third-party storage and converged infrastructure visibility
  • ServiceNow integration for streamlined incident management
  • Enriched topology views with detailed networking metrics
  • Ecosystem automation with Ansible and Terraform support
  • Minute-by-minute data collection with two-year historical storage

Deployment flexibility and choice

Cisco Intersight SaaS

Get the full power of cloud-managed operations with rapid deployment, automatic updates, and global accessibility for your entire fleet.

Cisco Intersight Virtual Appliance

Choose between connected or private (air-gapped) options to maintain control over your data and address strict data sovereignty needs.