Item: Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI)
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We had a multipod deployment at a two DC env. We were not able to shape traffic/poison EIGRP routes to one DC to avoid firewall asymmetric routing session dropping. Underlay bgp kept forcing the hosts to take the border leafs L3 outs even with EIGRP poisoning.

Pros and Cons

Pros

VXLAN for L2 stretching
VMM integration

Cons

Location of functions in GUIs
GUI manuvering

Return on Investment

Positive was DR for multi data center envs
downside is the leaf/spine cli languages for newer to coding engs

Scalability

The DR perspective of L2 over L3

Automation

We haven't used the API, but I'm sure it's great.

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?

Yes

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

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

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

For Data interconnects its the way to go

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Possible perimeter firewall issues with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure