About Cisco Intersight Virtual Appliance
Cisco Intersight Virtual Appliance delivers the management features of Intersight in an easy to deploy VMware OVA, Microsoft Hyper-V Server VM, and KVM hypervisor. Intersight Virtual Appliance provides the benefits of Cisco Intersight that offers an intelligent level of management to enable customers to analyze, simplify, and automate their environments in more advanced ways than the previous generations of tools, while allowing more flexibility with additional data locality, security, and compliance requirements.
You can deploy Intersight Virtual Appliance in one of the following modes:
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Intersight Connected Virtual Appliance
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Intersight Private Virtual Appliance
Intersight Connected Virtual Appliance delivers the management features of Intersight while allowing you to control what system details leave your premises. Intersight Connected Virtual Appliance deployments requires a connection back to Cisco and Intersight services for automatic updates and access to services for full functionality.
Intersight Private Virtual Appliance delivers the management features of Intersight and allows you to ensure that no system details leave your premises. Intersight Private Virtual Appliance deployments is intended for an environment where you operate data centers in a disconnected (air gapped) mode.
For an overview of Intersight Assist, see About Cisco Intersight Assist.
You can deploy Intersight Virtual Appliance as a single-node virtual machine in your existing environment.
You can also deploy Intersight Virtual Appliance on VMware vSphere as a multi-node cluster which allows for high availability. Once you have completed the initial set up of the single-node appliance, you can add additional nodes. After you successfully add two additional nodes, you can create a multi-node cluster in Intersight Virtual Appliance.
This guide provides an overview of how to install and set up Intersight Virtual Appliance in your environment.
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Before installing and setting up Intersight Virtual Appliance, it is strongly recommended that you read the information provided in the System Requirements section. |
For latest updates on Intersight features and functionality, see Intersight Appliance Help Center.