ACI the righ asnwer to the upcoming datacenter demand
Updated February 07, 2024

ACI the righ asnwer to the upcoming datacenter demand

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI)

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
  • High availability
  • programmability
  • Infrastructure as a service
  • Integration with third party compute
  • Storage management
  • ROI is good
  • Pay as you grow approach is feasible
Cisco ACI is the only SDN fabric technology that has everything you need in a box. Code maturity, programmability and flexibility are huge plus of ACI
Time saving and pay as you grow is absolutely a plus
We created a bunch of code to complete automatically tasks that where executed by hand

Do you think Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI)'s feature set?

Yes

Did Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI) live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI) again?

Yes

ACI is completely suited for modern datacenter and Hybryd cloud scenarios.
ACI is not so good in conventional environemtn where VLAN switching is the only required transport service

Using Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI)

1 - datacenter architect
1 - Datacenter architect and networking specialist
  • Service graph
  • Esg and microsegmentation
  • Intent based routing
  • Hybrid cloud
  • Distributed datacenter
  • Business continuity
ACI is the most robust and mature datacenter SDN platform

Evaluating Cisco ACI and Competitors

  • Cloud Solutions
  • Scalability
  • Other
I can do anything again as I've done

Cisco ACI Support

few open support case all closed with briliant sokution and in a really short time
ProsCons
Quick Resolution
Good followup
Knowledgeable team
Problems get solved
Kept well informed
No escalation required
Immediate help available
Support understands my problem
Support cares about my success
Quick Initial Response
None
No premium support available
when i was unable to see my multicast traffic and the TAC engineer fixed my issue in few seconds

Using Cisco ACI

Simple only if you have an SDN approach
ProsCons
Like to use
Relatively simple
Easy to use
Technical support not required
Well integrated
Consistent
Convenient
Feel confident using
Familiar
None
  • Service graph
  • Contract