Cisco Intersight Connected Virtual Appliance Premier
The Cisco Intersight Connected Virtual Appliance Premier license unlocks advanced infrastructure management features for your Cisco environment, ensuring optimal performance and compliance.
- Access to: Advanced automation, analytics, and policy-based management for your Cisco data center infrastructure.
- Coverage for: Enhanced visibility and control across compute, storage, and network devices from a single pane of glass.
- Protection against: Potential configuration drift and compliance violations through proactive monitoring and reporting.
- Entitlement to: Premier-level support and software updates, ensuring your management platform remains current and secure.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Cisco Intersight Connected Virtual Appliance Premier license provides a subscription-based software entitlement for advanced data center management. This premier tier unlocks comprehensive features for automation, analytics, and policy-driven operations across your Cisco compute, storage, and network infrastructure.
This solution is designed for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations who need to efficiently manage complex Cisco environments. It integrates with your existing infrastructure, offering a centralized platform to monitor health, optimize performance, and maintain compliance without the overhead of traditional enterprise management tools.
- Unified Management: Centralize control of Cisco UCS, HyperFlex, and Nexus devices.
- Intelligent Automation: Automate routine tasks and deployments with policy-based workflows.
- Proactive Analytics: Gain deep insights into performance, capacity, and potential issues.
- Compliance Assurance: Maintain regulatory and internal policy adherence with continuous monitoring.
- Scalable Platform: Easily manage growing infrastructure footprints from a single virtual appliance.
Empower your IT team with enterprise-grade management capabilities, simplified for your business needs.
What This Enables
Enable Advanced Infrastructure Automation
Enable teams to automate routine tasks such as firmware updates, configuration deployments, and policy enforcement across their Cisco compute, storage, and network devices. Streamline operational workflows and reduce manual intervention, freeing up IT resources for strategic initiatives.
virtualized environments, multi-device management, policy-driven operations, centralized IT control
Enhance Data Center Visibility and Analytics
Streamline the monitoring of hardware health, performance metrics, and capacity utilization across the entire Cisco data center footprint. Automate the generation of reports and alerts, providing proactive insights to prevent potential issues and optimize resource allocation.
hybrid cloud deployments, performance monitoring, capacity planning, proactive issue resolution
Ensure Continuous Compliance and Security
Automate the enforcement of security policies and compliance standards across all managed Cisco infrastructure. Enable continuous monitoring for configuration drift and potential vulnerabilities, ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements and internal best practices.
regulated industries, security-conscious organizations, audit preparation, standardized deployments
Key Features
Virtual Appliance Deployment
Deploy a flexible management platform within your own data center, providing direct control and integration with your existing infrastructure.
Policy-Based Management
Define and enforce consistent configurations and operational policies across your Cisco UCS, HyperFlex, and Nexus devices, reducing errors and ensuring standardization.
Proactive Health Monitoring
Gain real-time visibility into the health and performance of your infrastructure, enabling early detection of issues and minimizing downtime.
Intelligent Automation Workflows
Automate complex tasks and repetitive operations, improving IT efficiency and allowing staff to focus on higher-value activities.
Capacity Planning Tools
Utilize analytics to understand resource utilization and forecast future capacity needs, optimizing hardware investments.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust security, high availability, and strict compliance with regulations like SOX and PCI DSS, which Intersight's centralized management and policy enforcement capabilities help address.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must maintain HIPAA compliance and ensure continuous operation of critical systems, benefiting from Intersight's proactive monitoring, automation, and secure management features.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers rely on stable and efficient IT operations to support production lines and supply chains, making Intersight's automation and performance optimization valuable for maintaining uptime and productivity.
Education & Research
Educational institutions often manage diverse and growing IT infrastructures with limited resources, benefiting from Intersight's simplified management, automation, and cost-effective operational model.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco Intersight Connected Virtual Appliance?
It is a software platform that provides centralized management, automation, and analytics for Cisco data center infrastructure. The virtual appliance form factor allows deployment within your own environment.
What does the Premier license tier offer?
The Premier license unlocks the full suite of Intersight features, including advanced automation, comprehensive analytics, and policy-based management for compute, storage, and network devices.
What types of Cisco hardware does this license manage?
This license is designed to manage Cisco UCS servers, Cisco HyperFlex systems, and Cisco Nexus switches, providing unified control across these key infrastructure components.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Medium — IT-assisted
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
Digital software licenses and SaaS subscriptions cannot be returned once activated or provisioned. Contact a Zent Networks account manager if you have questions before purchasing.