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Cisco ACI Review
June 09, 2023

Cisco ACI Review

Nate Hill | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI)

Cisco ACI is what we use for our two main Data Centers. Building on the flexibility of fabric path for redundancy and bandwidth to support enterprise solutions for 60 acute facilities and 1000+ ambulatories.
  • Scalability
  • Reliability
  • API inspection for ease with automating tasks
  • None listed
  • We have less tickets and time consumed in administrative work to build out new servers/environments
Brought much ease and consistency expanding adding new leafs in the environment with a push of a button saving time and user mistakes from more traditional core dist access leaf infrastructures.
in some place we can script automate standard port configurations and build outs so that the end user can fill out a form of what they need and the script builds the configurations speeding up both time for implementations as well as ultizing standards because its not multiple people manually configuring that might do a description slightly different or forget to add something.

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

Not sure

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

Migrating to ACI and the learning curve and understanding from the business is sometimes a challenge. Because it is a security focused (appropriately so) the ease of adding ports and end points associated to traditional trunks can be very time consuming. Note I understand we can maybe improve these speeds if we bring the FI's into the ACI infrastructure but today they are separated bring up a new FI domain teadious if not automated.