Modern DC Management using Cisco Intersight (INTERSIGHT)
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Overview
Description, Pre requisites -
Content
Lessons, Course Structure
Overview
Few organisations today have a completely single on-prem style DC. As companies move to a more Virtualised, Containerised and multi-staged environments, a SAAS management platform that understands public cloud, private cloud and on-premises environments becomes crucial to the management of the modern Data Centre.
This one day hands-on course gives participants a chance to see how Intersight can be used to:
- Mange on-premises UCS, UCS-X and Hyperflex equipment
- Deploy and manage the Hyperflex Application Platform
- Integrate with 3rd party platforms using the API
- Use Cisco Intersight Workforce Optimizer
Targeted Audience
- This course is aimed at data centre professionals, network administrators, systems administrators and system architects
Pre-requisites
Attendees who are familiar with the following will be best placed to gain the most from this course:
- Server virtualisation
- Hyperconverged Infrastructure concepts
- UCS Series hardware
Duration
1 day
Outline
- Intersight Overview
- Intersight Device Connector concept
- Intersight Options
- UCS
- Hyperflex
- Pure Storage
- Virtualization
- Orchestration
- Connected TAC
- Intersight Virtual Appliance
- Intersight Setup
- Licence levels
- Licence Activation
- Cisco Intersight Account setup
- Claiming devices in Intersight
- Unclaiming devices
- Managing and customising the Intersight GUI
- Users and Role Based Access Control
- Cisco Intersight API
- Intersight Appliance Settings
- Cisco Intersight Organisations
- Intersight API
- Intersight API Overview
- Management Information Model
- Query Syntax
- Intersight Workload Optimizer
- Intersight Workload Optimizer Overview
- Workflow Concepts
Labs
- Claiming a device in Intersight
- Exploring the Intersight SAAS GUI
- User Management and RBAC
- Using API to remove a dummy Intersight account
- Intersight Workload Optimizer Demo