Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure review by an engineer and user
February 11, 2025
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure review by an engineer and user
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI)
We implement and support data center infrastructure for government and enterprise companies. This provides quick and clean GUI for the operation teams. It allows us to do template development for ease of implementation.
The multi-pod design allows us to create geo-redundancy to assure 99.9999% uptime on all applications for the government. This assures vital governmental functionality to be always available.
For Enterprise and service providers, Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure allows us quick scalability and integration with VMWare and Openshift to ease the deployment of new applications.
The multi-pod design allows us to create geo-redundancy to assure 99.9999% uptime on all applications for the government. This assures vital governmental functionality to be always available.
For Enterprise and service providers, Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure allows us quick scalability and integration with VMWare and Openshift to ease the deployment of new applications.
Pros
- GUI
- Scalability
- Integration with 3rd party DC infrastructure
- Redundancy
- SDN
Cons
- Lack of information for new network engineers
- Upgrading of the Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure should be easier
- Lack of explanation for some of the errors we see within the APIC
- We have seen a growth in the number of applications we can deploy and support at any given time.
- Due to the geo-redundancy multi-pod designs, we have managed to increase the availability of all applications to 99.9999%.
- The integration with VMware allows the reduction on the number of engineers that are required for the operational tasks.
The implementation and integration of new devices and sites has been reduced by 5 days. The deployment process for new applications has been made easy and quick for us.
Integrating new Tenants is simplified. We have an integration with UCS Director which also helps a lot.
Integrating new Tenants is simplified. We have an integration with UCS Director which also helps a lot.
We use REST API calls with python scripts for deployment of new bare-metal servers.
We have an integration with VMWare that also deploys it's own EPGs, APs and Tenants.
We have an integration with VMWare that also deploys it's own EPGs, APs and Tenants.
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
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