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Cisco ACI

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What is Cisco ACI?

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is network virtualization technology.

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What is Cisco ACI?

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Product Details

What is Cisco ACI?

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI®) is presented as a secure, open, and comprehensive Software-Defined Networking (SDN) solution, enables automation that accelerates infrastructure deployment and governance, simplifies management to move workloads across a multi-fabric and multicloud frameworks, and proactively secures against risk arising from anywhere. It's goal is to simplify, optimize, and expedite the application deployment lifecycle.

Cisco ACI Features

  • Supported: Enable automation to accelerate infrastructure deployment and governance
  • Supported: Simplify management to move workloads across a multi-fabric and multicloud framework
  • Supported: Proactively secure against risk
  • Supported: Identify performance issues in the network before they happen
  • Supported: Transform IT operations from reactive to proactive

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Frequently Asked Questions

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is network virtualization technology.

VMware NSX, Palo Alto Panorama, and IBM Cloud Internet Services are common alternatives for Cisco ACI.

Reviewers rate Performance and Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.1.

The most common users of Cisco ACI are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Ease of Use: Reviewers have found setting up VPCs to be straightforward and not challenging at all. The seamless integration of LLDP with the fabric has been highlighted as making configuration very easy and user-friendly.

Flexibility and Control: Users value the platform for its flexibility, control, and visibility making it easier to monitor and manage the network effectively. They appreciate the ease of adding a new switch, configuring ports, and the ability to separate control and data traffic planes.

Automation Capabilities: Customers have praised the platform's automation capabilities for tasks such as monitoring, provisioning, and assurance. Features like PBR, microsegmentation, security, and automation were noted as enhancing performance within the network infrastructure.

Slow Performance: Several users have mentioned experiencing slow performance on the APIC web UI, even on newer UCS systems. They have expressed frustration over the lagginess of the interface.

High Cost Justification Challenges: Users have found it difficult to justify the high cost of the hardware and management platform to their management. This is primarily due to the perceived lack of ease of manageability outweighing the price.

Complexity in Configuration and User Interface: Reviewers have highlighted challenges with the complexity of the user interface, object modeling, and configuration process. They desire a better user experience, simpler configuration options, and improved naming conventions.

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CISCO ACI Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
July 10, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI)
5 years of experience
  • Manage your Infrastructure using a cluster of controller
  • Be able to push a multiple configuration from the controller using integration to automation via Ansible/Terraform
  • Multipod and Multisite capability

Cisco ACI Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
June 12, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI)
6 years of experience
  • Mainly whenever we have a requirement to do bulk configurations or multiple objects within the data center needs to create or multiple endpoints needs to be connected to the disease. So in a single go we can configure them all.

Cisco ACI Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 10, 2024
JL
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI)
1 year of experience
  • So with the old one, we've had a secure zone, core zone, so we have special hardware specific for those zones, so security zones in our data center. This allows us to basically have the spine leaf and we could put any ports in any zone. So it allows a lot more, I'd say efficient use of equipment, being able to plug in things to whatever, and then program it to how you want it to work on.

Cisco ACI Review

Rating: 7 out of 10
June 04, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI)
3 years of experience
  • Ease of deployment
  • Quickly identify issues / endpoints on the network.

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure review

Rating: 8 out of 10
February 13, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI)
2 years of experience
  • Feedback on connection problems. Be it layer 1 through 4, it'll warn us when something is wrong.
  • Adoption of new topology. The way in which LLDP works together with the rest of the fabric makes this very easy.
  • Setting up VPCs. It's not difficult at all.

Cisco ACI is great for scalability

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 05, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI)
5 years of experience
  • Adding a new Switch
  • Configuring a port.
  • Separating control and data from traffic plane
  • Easy deployment of EPG/VLAN
  • No STP
  • Policy reusable.

DC Fabric

Rating: 7 out of 10
December 22, 2023
MS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI)
3 years of experience
  • Network segregation
  • High availability
  • Simplicity of Design

Cisco ACI is for any data center deployment.

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 29, 2023
DC
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI)
7 years of experience
  • It’s integration with VMware makes seem less the deployment
  • It’s integration with compute using UCS integration, automates the VLAN creation and assignment in the UCSM
  • Rich API scope, you can deploy tenants within seconds.
  • Move from a legacy environment to a network centric in ACI is doable through multiple ways.
  • It’s operations and troubleshooting module with the audit and alerting provides good insight of what could be causing the issue(if there is one).

Cisco ACI Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 09, 2023
NH
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI)
4 years of experience
  • Scalability
  • Reliability
  • API inspection for ease with automating tasks

Cisco ACI is the superior

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 09, 2023
am
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI)
5 years of experience
  • managing and deploying the fabric
  • managing and controlling inter site mobility
  • integrating with hypervisor (vcenter)
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