Batteries Included! Introducing Intersight Workload Engine
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Batteries Included! Introducing Intersight Workload Engine


This weblog submit is a collaboration between Peter Kisich, Product Advertising Supervisor, Cisco Cloud & Compute & Co-authored by Puneet Konghot, Product Supervisor, Cisco Cloud & Compute.

Just lately, we launched Intersight Workload Engine (IWE)  as a easy means for patrons to function their infrastructure and simply run cloud native functions utilizing Intersight Kubernetes Service (IKS) with out the necessity to deploy an exterior virtualization answer like VMware ESXi.

Why We Constructed It

We heard you!  Clients had been continually asking us for a KVM based mostly decrease price answer for virtualization help round on-premises Kubernetes workloads.  Why virtualize?  Effectively, by operating Kubernetes managed containers inside digital machines, organizations can obtain easier lifecycle administration and optimize useful resource utilization.  Kubernetes additionally offers an agile and elastic infrastructure that meets the wants of the appliance builders on-premises.  That is very true for ephemeral workloads current in microservices functions.  That’s why we determined to incorporate this functionality as an extension of Intersight Kubernetes Service (IKS) at no further price to you (sure, we imply zero, zippo, nada).

How Does It Work

Intersight Workload Engine sits within the stack precisely the place you’d anticipate it to – within the hypervisor layer as proven in Determine 1.

Determine 1 – Cisco Absolutely Built-in Stack with Intersight Workload Optimizer

However together with a low/no price hypervisor wasn’t our solely purpose right here. Cisco realized that IWE wanted to be an enterprise class answer to fulfill the wants of our buyer base.  In order that’s what we constructed!  For starters, we simplified deployment of Kubernetes clusters to automate networking, storage, compute, virtualization, and working programs – all achieved from a single pane of glass within the Cisco Intersight Cloud Operations Platform.  This constant deployment methodology has day 2 advantages too. IWE routinely implements finest practices for resiliency and safety, eliminating the necessity for complicated infrastructure design.  As well as, the seamless integration of Intersight, IWE, IKS, and the Hyperflex Knowledge Platform (HXDP) eliminates the complexity and danger related to multi-solution integration at completely different layers of your infrastructure and functions. This makes the cloud native software journey quicker, extra predictable, and less expensive.

What Do I Have to Deploy IWE In the present day?

IWE is deployed with an all-Cisco built-in stack which features a set of three or extra Cisco servers related to a pair of Material Interconnects. Additionally required is Intersight Kubernetes Service. A number of IKS managed clusters could be deployed on prime of 1 IWE cluster, and all Kubernetes clusters can share the persistent storage provided by the HyperFlex Knowledge Platform (HXDP) built-in inside IWE cluster (Determine 1).  Sure, you do want licensing for HyperFlex and IKS, however IWE could be chosen at no further price as your most popular infrastructure goal to your Kubernetes deployments with IKS.

We Proceed to Pay attention

As we talked about earlier, we’re listening to our buyer’s wants and proceed so as to add extra capabilities to assist allow the digital transformation and cloud initiatives of our buyer base.  This was the driving pressure behind the event of Intersight Workload Engine.  Now, with IWE, Cisco prospects now not have to cobble collectively open-source distributions, extreme virtualization licenses, a number of administration panes, and disparate {hardware} to assist their Kubernetes infrastructure and cloud native functions.

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Sources

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IWE Set up Information 

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