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My Cisco ACI experience as a project engineer
February 17, 2023

My Cisco ACI experience as a project engineer

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI)

I had been implementing ACI projects in banking, government, and oil&gas companies. The most complicated thing about ACI is the learning curve that network engineers have to take to be ready to administrate the solution.In all of the cases in which we implemented an ACI solution, it was to replace the old and outdated data center network and to optimize DC network speed and security on a centralized solution that is also capable of integration with stigmatization solutions like ansible or APIs.
  • Central Management via APICs
  • clean and structured configuration
  • reuse of policies
  • high availability on the fabric
  • Micro Segmentation
  • More ACI configuration examples documentation on real world scenarios
  • Apply more than one EPG to the same port at the same time via the GUI and not EPG per EPG menu
  • Service Graph are to complicated to configure
  • Better network performance
  • High availability
  • Simplicity to administrate a Multipod DC
I had been involved on a project that involved ACI, SD-ACCESS and SD-WAN implementation and one of the better things the level of integration of the solutions on the policies level.
The first experience for automation ACI was with APIs and POSTMAN and it help a lot for complete creation of a tenant, app profiles and EPGs just in a few simple steps. Now we are working on ansible plabooks to improve more the automation of the solution and save time on the deployment of new services.

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

Cisco ACI is one of the best SDN solutions for DC networking it does everything it promises and is a stable solution and gives you peace of mind that your critical applications and services are not going to lose connectivity.