Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Services Connected Virtual Appliance - Advantage - Subscription License - Hosted - E3A-MGT-IS-SAAS-A

• Unified monitoring and management
  Simplify the monitoring and management of Cisco and third-party compute, network, storage, 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.
• Security
  Built with security top-of-mind. Operate with security top-of-mind.
• Automation and workflow orchestration
  Use a drag-and-drop designer to create and execute complex orchestrations across multiple 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, status, and capacity planning
  Display and report inventory information for Cisco and third-party compute, network, storage, integrated systems, virtualization, and containers. 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 end-customer experience
  Raise service requests and proactively authorize Return Materials Authorizations (RMAs). 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.
• Hardware compatibility list (HCL)
  Evaluate and mitigate the impact of service issues from running non-validated combinations of 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 upgrades
  Upgrade firmware and software for UCS domains, UCS servers, HyperFlex clusters, and UCS Director 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.
• Tunneled vKVM
  Capability to launch tunneled virtual Keyboard, Video, and Mouse (KVM) sessions for Cisco UCS C-Series standalone servers.

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.