Item: Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI)
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros and Cons

Layer 2 across all pods
Configure many switches with a few clicks
Stable data center networking

V center plugin missing for HTML5 client
Renaming objects is not possible
Interaction is a little slow sometimes.

Return on Investment

Worth the money

Alternatives Considered

Multi-pods only with Cisco ACI.

Other Software Used

VMware ESXi, Veeam ONE, Cisco Intersight

Likelihood to Recommend

Datacenters with multiple pods and or multiple applications with different networks will be well organized with Cisco ACI.
If you need firewall rules on single IP adresses, you will need an extra firewall. Otherwise, ACI would be perfect for zoning applications.

Scalability

No Single IP filtering

Performance

Everything works fine and we consume 40gb on all of our clusters.

Cisco ACI Review

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI)