Chapter 5

Network Operations

Introduction

Network operators in a multicloud environment face an ongoing challenge to deliver infrastructure rapidly while also meeting the competing demands for workload mobility and zero downtime. Having more visibility and control through Intersight’s single-cloud operations platform helps ease this administrative burden.

This chapter discusses how network-related configuration can be defined via reusable policy and applied to network infrastructure for servers. This is analogous to the policies described in Chapter 4, “Server Operations,” and Chapter 6, “Storage Operations.”

In addition to providing network infrastructure for servers, Intersight also offers monitoring and inventory capabilities for traditional ...

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