Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure review
February 08, 2024

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI)

We use Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure as a big traditional switch. It is a waste of potential and money, but there is no way we can convince our management and the rest of our firm to move cables to the new ACI infrastructure, change the approach to an Application Centric one and integrate the network with the VM infrastructure.
  • Switch
  • Contracts
  • Epg
  • User interface
My management chose after a deep evaluation involving the Cisco account manager and no one else. I was actually quite impressed by Aruba solutions but not in the position to correctly compare.
We are not using the full range of possibilities arousing from Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure and therefore until now the only impact I saw was in the throughput a single switch can handle, no real time or money savings.
It did not.

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?

No

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

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

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

No

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

No

The way we are using it now Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure is just a big switch without the power of CLI. Programmability would probably be its best feature if I could get to use it.