Cisco ACI

It's mainly used in our Data Centers, together with our Internet Service Provider Partner who mainly manages our network, along with other customers. Cisco ACI is used for the whole organization, and mainly by the IT department. It helps and solves SDN issues and hindrances which eases our deployments of services. The main reason for doing so, as from the technical discussions, was mainly for stability and centralized management, along with the new security features that it offers.

I do the implementation in ACI single pod, multi-pod and Multi-site.

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure is definitely one of the best for data center switching, we use it in the organization in general. We really like that it has the feature of a private cloud, this is ideal for some of our customers who prefer a private cloud to a public one. It's great for managing our network, plus it's great for large environments. Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure does not have the best support features and some features are difficult to execute, but overall it is adequate for upgrading our data center environment.

I have implemented if for a large airline business. It's being used for the whole organisation and it replaced the legacy DC. It solved the biggest issues with the old STP and loops and simplified the L2 domain in a much cleaner way without understanding the underlying technical complexities. It's a great solution if you don't want to build the fabric manually.

In our organization, we are using Cisco ACI as our main data center switching platform. All in all, Cisco ACI has done exactly what we expected it to do. There was a little learning curve at the beginning of the transitioning process but once we started figuring everything out it was rather easy for us. Once deployed, we really haven't had to touch it. It's doing exactly what it should be doing day in and day out.

I have deployed Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure on multiple clients, some using it for the entire organization and some for the datacenter only. It can be implemented in multipod and also in multisite. At the time of implementation, I did not find any problem, raising the ACI fabric is a simple task that can be done in minutes.

As a service consultant and system implementation engineer, ACI is being used to migrate legacy WAN networks to this new SDN architecture. It scales out faster and gives more agility for migrating networks. ACI will also allow faster deployment of greenfield implementations

Cisco ACI is being used in our data centers to manage traffic for our commerce applications . It has the virtual API that works with our developers to create and tear down application environments

ACI is being rolled out as a new DC fabric to consolidate and simplify a legacy networking estate. Currently, the deployment is not running in the full-blown Application policy-based routing model. This will be a later phase once the under lying technology is remediated. Ansible is being used in conjunction with ACI to simplify change on the Nexus estate.

ACI fabric is built across several data centers in our organization providing single-click access to all Cisco ACI fabric information, enabling network automation, programmability, and centralized management for all data center services.

We currently use Cisco ACI as the fabric for our next generation data centre. The platform is managed by the Network Team within our IT department, and hosts all of the internal application we use, as well as providing secure access to applications on the Police National Network, private and public clouds, and the Internet at large.

We use ACI in our new SDDC (Software Defined Data Center) which is used in three different data center locations in Europe to be able to deliver a hybrid cloud to our internal customers worldwide. This is a network area that is deployed in parallel to our existing legacy network.

We have used ACI as part of our existing platforms and also deployed it as part of various Cisco infrastructure projects for clients. In addition we have also on occasion performed consulting functions to clients that either had tried to deploy themselves or had work done by another integrator and had run into un expected complications.

We use Cisco ACI as a multi-pod version across four data centers. Each data center has two fire protection zones, with half of one pod. We needed layer 2 networking across Germany on these four different locations. We consume networks on HyperFlex Clusters and some other Hardware Servers. Each pod has two spines and four-leaf switches.

It is used as a platform for private cloud & tenanted & connected into the MPLS cloud per customer. We used it for customers that did not want to go to public cloud & it has worked out cheaper for them than using AWS or GCP versions. We price it as a fixed price model with no usage-based costs.

We changed our old Nexus switches in two data centers (stretched L2 design) to a Cisco ACI multi-pod design and it's now in production. Yes, you have to learn a lot of new things and it's totally different from what it was before. But it's worth it. We have added stability (no more STP in the fabric), centralized management (upgrades are now so easy) and security (it's much more easy to segment the data center).

We have just started to deploy this in non-prod mode. We are currently doing the PoC and trying to understand various ways in which this could be implemented in our environment, which would give us maximum benefit. And also we need to ensure that this has minimum disruption to the business operation and our network operations team also gets a better understanding of how to support this environment.

Cisco ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure) allowed us to renew our datacenter facilities in different ways. The introduction of a spine-leaf architecture allowed to optimize cabling and improve scalability of the overall datacenter. The Nexus 9k improved the performance. The Cisco ACI Controller introduced our company to a programmable infrastructure that is cloud-ready.

I help other companies implement Cisco ACI at their data center. From design to implementation and support. Mainly Cisco ACI is used by the IT-department. Cisco ACI solves/helps solve SDN in the data centers, and it really helps with faster deployments of services in the data centers.

We use Cisco ACI in our newest production environments. Our ACI fabrics are used for multiple users in three different countries and each of the fabrics are currently separate installations but we have plans to install a multi-site orchestrator on top of the solutions to be able to control all fabrics from one centralized location.

We use Cisco ACI as the foundation for our private cloud and now with the latest innovation stretching that into the public cloud with ACI and HyperFlex Anywhere.

I am with a VAR, and we have deployed Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) a few times for customers. Most times it is a POC or POV, but sometimes in production. Due to the staggering differences between ACI and traditional Cisco networking, I find most customers prefer a phased approach.

We have several data centers running a mix of FabricPath, Catalyst and ACI. We have a data center that has been around for a few years that's only ACI and are starting to roll ACI out to additional data centers now that we've solidified the design/architecture. Our engineers have struggled a bit with adopting it as a new technology since it's such a different mindset than traditional networking, but several of us have embraced the new mindset and the potential that comes along with it and we've been able to make massive changes and architectural improvements as a result.

It is being used across the whole organization. It addresses business agility and flexibility. We are showing its benefits to our customers.