Cisco Intersight: A Handbook for Intelligent Cloud Operations

Cisco Intersight is a cloud operations platform that delivers intelligent visualization, optimization, and orchestration for applications and infrastructure across hybrid cloud environments. Intersight offers a new paradigm that allows traditional infrastructures to be operated and maintained with the agility of cloud-native infrastructure. At the same time, Intersight strengthens cloud native environments with many proven stability and governance principles inherent to traditional infrastructure.

Cisco Intersight: A Handbook for Intelligent Cloud Operations demonstrates how you can use Intersight to transform heterogeneous IT environments and simplify operations across your organization. The only book of its kind, it's authored by a team of Cisco insiders with more than 150 years of combined experience in virtually every role associated with enterprise datacenters and cloud technology, from leadership to invention.

The authors cover all facets of Intersight architecture, planning, and administration, from foundational concepts and security to operating infrastructure, servers, networks, storage, virtualization, and workloads. You'll find full chapters on Kubernetes, orchestration, programmability, and Infrastructure as Code. If you're struggling with managing multiple disparate environments, on-premise infrastructure, clouds, and edge/remote locations, Cisco Intersight can unify all their operationsand this guide can help you make the most of it.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Intersight Foundations

3. Security

4. Infrastructure Operations

5. Server Operations

6. Network Operations

7. Storage Operations

8. Virtualization Operations

9. Kubernetes

10. Workload Optimization

11. Orchestration

12. Programmability

13. Infrastructure as Code

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