Course Overview
Cisco Intersight Overview (DCISO) v1.0 is a 3-day instructor led course that builds your experience with the administration of Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) X-Series servers, including using Cisco Intersight for UCS management. This course covers architecture, configuration, and operation of Cisco Intersight®, and is designed to serve the needs of engineers seeking to understand the capabilities of Cisco Intersight for managing data centers from a single management platform.
This course will help you:
- Use SaaS or on-prem version of Cisco Intersight to enable IT organizations to analyze, simplify, and automate their environments in more advanced ways than the prior generations of tools
- Gain hands-on experience using Cisco Intersight
- Understand the X-Series, B-Series, and C-Series product line similarities and differences
- Describe Cisco Intersight and how it can be used to manage UCS and Cisco Hyperflex®
- Understand the process for upgrading firmware with Cisco Intersight
- Administering server profiles, pools, and policies with Cisco Intersight
- Describe how to get started with Cisco Intersight programmability
Who should attend
This course is designed for the following roles:
- System administrators
- Technical solutions architects
- Systems integrators
- Channel partners
- Value-added resellers
- Customer sales engineers
- DevOps engineers
- Sales engineers
- Systems engineers
- Technical solutions architects
Prerequisites
Before enrolling in this course, you should have:
- Data Center experience
- Operating systems and virtualization experience
- Understanding of server system design and architecture
- Basic knowledge of servers and storage
- Familiarity with Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) and Cisco Hyperflex
- Familiarity with Cisco UCS networking and storage concepts
The following Cisco courses may help you meet these prerequisites:
Course Objectives
After completing the course, you should be able to:
- Understand Cisco UCS Management in Cisco Intersight
- Describe the Cisco UCS Platform including Cisco X-Series
- Understand Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer
- Explain Kubernetes Orchestration with Cisco Intersight Kubernetes Service (IKS) and Cisco UCS
- Perform Automation Using Cisco Intersight
- Create Intersight Elements Using Terraform
- Manage Intersight Using the API
Outline: Cisco Intersight Overview (DCISO)
- Describing Cisco UCS Management in Cisco Intersight
- Describing the Cisco UCS Platform
- Describing Cisco Intersight Workloads
- Describing Automation Options Using Cisco Intersight