Cisco Intersight

Matthew Baker, Brandon Beck, Doron Chosnek, Jason McGee, Sean McKeown, Bradley TerEick, and Mohit Vaswani are Solutions Architects within the Cisco Cloud Infrastructure & Software Group who are passionate about helping customers build high-value hybrid cloud and multi-cloud solutions. Every day, they work directly with Cisco customers and partners to combine Cisco, third-party, open-source, and public cloud technologies to achieve key business objectives.

• Foreword xviiiIntroduction xixChapter 1 Intersight Foundations 1Introduction 1Intersight Architecture 1Licensing 21Summary 21References 21Chapter 2 Security 23Introduction 23Connectivity 23Claiming 24Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) 26Audit Logs 28Data Security 29Security Advantages 30Summary 31References 31Chapter 3 Infrastructure Operations 33Introduction 33Device Health and Monitoring 33Linking Intelligence Feeds 38Integrated Support 47Infrastructure Configuration 50ITSM Integration 54UCS Director Integration 56Summary 61References 61Chapter 4 Server Operations 63Introduction 63Supported Systems 63Server Actions 64Server Deployment 69Server Policies 69ID Pools 70Domain Management 73Firmware Updates 80Summary 83Reference 83Chapter 5 Network Operations 85Introduction 85Policy-Driven Network Infrastructure 85Summary 90Reference 90Chapter 6 Storage Operations 91Introduction 91HyperFlex 92Deploying HyperFlex Clusters 101Managing HX Clusters 105Traditional Storage Operations 113Summary 116References 116Chapter 7 Virtualization Operations 117Introduction 117Claiming a vCenter Target 118Claiming an AWS Target 120Contextual Visibility 121Contextual Operations 130Virtualization Orchestration 132Summary 134Reference 134Chapter 8 Kubernetes 135Introduction 135Intersight Kubernetes Service 136Benefits of IKS 138Cluster Management 139Intersight Workload Engine 161Summary 165References 166Chapter 9 Workload Optimization 167Introduction 167Users and Roles 169Targets and Configuration 170The Supply Chain 172Actions 174Groups and Policies 175Planning and Placement 180The Public Cloud 182Summary 185References 185Chapter 10 Orchestration 187Introduction 187Automation and Orchestration 187Intersight Orchestration 188Use Cases 200Summary 203Chapter 11 Programmability 205Introduction 205Client SDKs 209Authentication and Authorization 210Crawl, Walk, Run 213Advanced Usage 237Next Steps: Use Cases 244Summary 255References 255Chapter 12 Infrastructure as Code 257Introduction 257What Is Infrastructure as Code? 258HashiCorp Terraform 262Intersight and Infrastructure as Code 263IST and Intersight Cloud Orchestrator 272Summary 273  9780137937288, TOC, 10/3/2022