AMA - Introduction to Cisco Intersight Managed Mode and UCS X-Series

[Brooke Hammer]

Ask Me Anything Event

Welcome to the Cisco Community Ask Me Anything conversation. Are you already familiar with the new Cisco UCS solutions and the Cisco Intersight™ infrastructure management platform? The Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service is an infrastructure lifecycle management solution delivered as a service or connected via a private virtual appliance. It helps IT operations teams gain visibility, control, and automation for their compute, storage, and network infrastructure, wherever it is, from one place. The Intersight Infrastructure Service is a core module of the Cisco Intersight IT Operations Platform that provides a single pane of glass for managing and automating your global infrastructure throughout its lifecycle. With Intersight Infrastructure Service, you get all the benefits of SaaS delivery and complete infrastructure lifecycle management, distributed workloads across data centers, remote sites, branch offices, and edge environments in one place.

In addition, the Cisco UCS X-Series Modular System (UCS X-Series) provides blade server capabilities, offering compute density, storage capacity, and expandability in a single system. This is a modular system managed from the cloud via Cisco Intersight. It has a future-proof and adaptable modular design that meets the needs of modern applications and improves operational efficiency, agility, and scale.

Discover the new Cisco UCS X-Series, which together with the Cisco Intersight management platform allows you to deploy, configure, update, automate, and scale your environment through a cloud operating model in ways that were not possible before, resulting in an infrastructure ready for today's and tomorrow's hybrid world challenges.

Click on the 2 great resources below to get you started and join us August 28th- Sept 8th to ask any questions!

Meet the UN/BOX: Cisco UCS-X Series Modular System with Intersight 

Cisco UCS X-Series Quick Start Guide

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Luis Uribe  is an escalation Engineer specialized in Cisco UCS (Unified Computing System) and Intersight products within the Cisco TAC team. He has been awarded as a TAC Hero for his several contributions. He participated as a speaker in the last edition of Cisco Connect Latam and continually collaborates in initiatives to improve the product and create content for the Cisco UCS portfolio.

Ricardo Martinez is a Technical Leader for the Cisco UCS (Unified Computing System) and Intersight product portfolio at Cisco TAC. Within his role, he constantly collaborates with product development teams, aiming at the constant improvement of the Cisco UCS portfolio. He has experience in implementing comprehensive Data Center solutions with clients in the public, financial and private sectors. He has participated as a speaker at Cisco Live in the 2019 edition.

For more information, visit the Data Center discussion forums . If you have questions or are experiencing technical problems with any of the Cisco products, post your question, request information or use the Cisco Community before opening a case with the TAC.

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[bezeddin]

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[JOSE ANTONIO ALVAREZ CUBERO]

Can you explain the key differences between Cisco Intersight Managed Mode and the traditional UCS Manager for managing UCS X-Series servers?

[ricamar2]

Hello Expert!

Thank you for your question.

Intersight Managed Mode (IMM) is a new architecture that manages the UCS Fabric Interconnected systems through a Redfish-based standard model.

Intersight Managed Mode unifies the capabilities of the UCS Systems and the cloud-based flexibility of Intersight, thus unifying the management experience for the standalone and Fabric Interconnect attached systems

Some of the key differences between UCS Manager and Intersight Managed Mode are:

Scalability: UCS Manager offers a single administration point. When an organization requires multiple domains, the management can be a little bit challenging. Instead, with Intersight Managed Mode, we have unlimited scalability with Intersight SaaS.

Management: Intersight Managed Mode is a centralized management for all your domains, servers and even other 3rd party infrastructure devices!

High Availability: Intersight Managed Mode devices operations are configured via cloud with high availability since it is a cloud service.

Integration with Cisco Services: Connected TAC, Security Advisories, Upgrades, HCL, etc. 

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[itm.i11.team]

If I connect a UCS X9508 chassis to a pair of 6454 Fabric Interconnects is it possible to manage the chassis with UCS Manager or do the FIs need to run in Intersight Managed Mode?

[ricamar2]

Hello Expert! 

Thank you for your question. Starting with UCSM version 4.3(2b), we are now able to manage the UCS-X Series via UCS Manager! 

More information can be found on the UCSM 4.3 Release notes: 
Link: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/release/notes/b_release-notes-ucsm-4_3.html#d54e416a1635

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