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Cisco ACI
February 05, 2019

Cisco ACI

Jyrki Halonen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure

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.
  • Spreading policy across multiple locations
  • Other tools, like Tetration and Cisco NAE, can give you more out of your all investments
  • Currently GUI is good (it wasn't that from the beginning of the product)
  • Blueprints for different installation scenarios
  • Still some improvement on GUI for troubleshooting
  • Cisco ACI provides unified DC fabric on premise and in clouds
  • There was a learning curve in the beginning to train operation for Cisco APIC
Cisco ACI is better since it provides more common solutions than vendor specific solutions
Cisco ACI is sitting well in the center of your application strategy, since you can spread your applications for multiple locations and control those from centralized point. Still some improvements needed since vPOD and multi-site can't be on the same installation. I have heard that this should come soon in coming updates of the product.