Cisco ACI is for any data center deployment.

We use it in Network Centric Mode, several separated PODs, we use it as a private cloud. It’s agility and flexibility as a product to automate integration with VMware and UCS integration makes every deployment simple to just a couple of clicks, it solves time for deployment, it brings full availability of each link since it is a VXLAN fabric. Integration to many products seems native, and makes easy to move from a contract type of deployment to other type of similar deployments again with just a couple of clicks. It’s integration with POSTMAN is essential to configure tenants with libraries or get information.

ACI has saved us time from the get go, it’s deployment mode takes few mins if no seconds. From the scalability perspective whether you have a single POD or a stretched fabric the scalability is beyond words, it allows you to add more leaf switches if needed as plug and play or more servers whether you have HCI or multiple UCS, at the end of the day the scalability is easy to get if you take advantage of the features it has to offer.

We went from configuring in legacy to ACI which has multiple automation methods. ACI has a rich API you can use it to consult status, to push config. You can use POSTMAN and just add the APIC URL and create your own library with multiple deployment scripts and you should be good to go. You can also deploy using python and whichever way works, and make deployments take few mins if not seconds depending on what’s being deployed.