Item: Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI)
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for our core network in our datacenters. As a network engineer specialized in automation, I mainly work on backing up these devices.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Templating
Integration with automation tools like Ansible

Cons

More integration with automation languages
Automatic onboarding into a source of truth

Scalability

Me personally, it allowed me to manage the backups of the devices directly from the APIC instead of having to deal with each device. It works as well with scale.

Automation

I don't know about that part, but automation integrations definitely helped on my work when it comes to automatic configuration or backups through Ansible

Key Insights

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

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

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

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

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

As an user in automation, it meets my needs and is usable.

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