Cisco UCS Manager: Celebrating the Legacy, Shaping the Future with Cisco Intersight
Cisco, Tuesday, September 15th, 2026
Cisco marks the UCS Manager legacy and lays out the migration path to Intersight-based management.
Cisco reflects on the role UCS Manager played in unified computing and sets out the transition toward Intersight as the management plane for its server portfolio.
The post covers what Intersight offers that a local management controller cannot, including fleet-wide visibility, SaaS-delivered updates, and API-driven automation across sites.
It addresses migration planning for customers with long-standing UCS Manager deployments. Cisco frames the shift as moving infrastructure management from the rack to the cloud operating model.