Cisco ACI

Cisco ACI is mostly used on our customers Data Centers (Public and Private sectors), helping to integrate Primary and Disaster recovery DCs. The Deployment scenarios can be Multi-site or Multi-Pod. The DCI (Data Center Interconnect) can be used to stretch VLANs between ACI Data Centres. The technology used for that is VXLAN.

We use it in Network Centric Mode, several separated PODs, we use it as a private cloud. It’s agility and flexibility as a product to automate integration with VMware and UCS integration makes every deployment simple to just a couple of clicks, it solves time for deployment, it brings full availability of each link since it is a VXLAN fabric. Integration to many products seems native, and makes easy to move from a contract type of deployment to other type of similar deployments again with just a couple of clicks. It’s integration with POSTMAN is essential to configure tenants with libraries or get information.

My organization has migrated from the traditional NX-OS tiered networking architecture to ACI allowing us to provide a higher level of redundancy, while also streamlining services.

Cisco ACI is what we use for our two main Data Centers. Building on the flexibility of fabric path for redundancy and bandwidth to support enterprise solutions for 60 acute facilities and 1000+ ambulatories.

we 're building a new dc and using the ACI for managing the Fabric with entirely enhance features

We are using aci for about 5 years. we have 3 fabrics for different firewall segments

We have moved all our internal infrastructure to Cisco ACI platform. We use it support our internal and external applications, for clients peering with us externally, either through direct connect or VPN.

The main business problem this has addressed for us is latency within our network through the mesh topology.
It has also helped make manageability of our network much easier through the GUI and API. ACI has also enabled us to have much better visibility on faults (such as BGP peers going down or links going down) so we can respond much faster to any issues.

We use Cisco ACI as the only fabric for the Toronto Stock Exchange. It provides, Extranet, Internet and servers connectivity. We manage eveything through APIC and use Ansible and Gitops to provision the fabric. We use Nexus Dashboard Insight to monitoring and telemetry. It is a good tool. Good Product.

We use the ACI infrastructure for our Data Center PODs.
Robust and scaleable infrastructure
Site diversity, redundancy
Core enterprise applications and critical services applications dedicated network infrastructure

I started off migrating & deploying ACI for different customers. In my current role we help customers develop proof of concepts with ACI and other technologies.

I had been implementing ACI projects in banking, government, and oil&gas companies. The most complicated thing about ACI is the learning curve that network engineers have to take to be ready to administrate the solution.In all of the cases in which we implemented an ACI solution, it was to replace the old and outdated data center network and to optimize DC network speed and security on a centralized solution that is also capable of integration with stigmatization solutions like ansible or APIs.

I implement Cisco ACI at different customers with different sets of requirements. From a simple L2 fabric to complex fabrics with service graphs, transit routing, multi-site multi-pod and automation.
The business problems often solved in deployments are datacenter interconnect, ease of management and security concerns. Solved by multi-pod/multi-site. APIC / Automation and Service integration with firewalls.

I consult customers, actual in optimize and automate their already running aci

Actually our ACI is only used in an Network Centric mode as a big Layer 2 Switch to extend Network to other Locations and migration point for old Legacy environment.

We are replacing all our Cisco Nexus 5k / 6k / 7k with Cisco ACI. Currently we have deployed it in 6 datacenters. Currently we are still in a migration scenario where we have deployed it in a network centric approach but we are planning this year to start the transition towards application centric. our goals are: - Manageability of large switch fabrics - Automation using ansible - Scalability (100+ nodes per site)

We use ACI fabric as primary Datacenter Infrastructure. We use SDN model for internal apploications and multicloud environment.
Flexibility and High availability for strategic compute and data resources are the main goal of the ACI infrastructure

Ideal replacement for traditional stretched data centers. Ease of deployment and management by utilizing the APIC controllers.

We're using Cisco ACI in order to build the new datacenter environment and migrate from legacy networks towards ACI. Additionally we're starting to implement multi-site for centralized management.

We are using ACI to facilitate with automation the DC Network Infrastructure provisioning.

We needed a Fabric VXLAN with 2 datacenters that we can install very quickly. We needed also to have the posibillity to add 2 or 3 other datacenter. We use it to manage the hosting/VM network. We needed some automation like terraform or ansible to create/modify network part. All new client are now product on this plateform since 1 year.

We are using it as backend for our infrastructure inside of datacenter.<br>For scope i would say it provides access to every single application within goverment usecase in Slovakia. So every single deppartment is dependent on ACI, cause their applications are running on the servers (bare metal or virtual ESXi,...).

The main use case for Cisco ACI was the ability to use micro segmentation. This was used to land several applications in ACI all using the same subnet but still logically seperated from each other by using EPGs and contracts. Applications needed to only be able to communicate with it's own servers and the outside (of ACI) world. When different applications needed to communicate with eachother within ACI, only necessary traffic must be allowed.

I run managed services where we resell the Cisco products and offer fully managed services on those products. Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure provides the means to consolidate legacy data center architectures on to a single platform that can expand across multiple locations. It also solves the challenges around integration and security for private cloud. ACI has built in network automation along with an API first approach for external orchestrators making it easy to drive programmatically.

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure is used as a Nexus 7000 replacement (network centric) in the datacenter for L2 connectivity.

Cisco ACI replaces the legacy Datacenter LAN. Business point of view it enables to provision network services faster and secure, and simplifies the management of network.