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 Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure as our prime datacenter technology. It helped consolidate the different business lines into one physical box, allowing them to be logistically separate. It added programmability so that we can do repetitive tasks with a click of a button, reducing human error. Help reduce datacenter footprint.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Network segregation
Network security
Visibility

Cons

User ability to troubleshoot
East west traffic visibility
Good tool to monitor

Return on Investment

Reduced network inventory complexity
Newer technology, some end user required extra time to learn it
Ease of use once you have understand the technology

Scalability

Now we can logically move the server from a build vlan to a production vlan with ease. Adding new capacity has become very simple. Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure upgrade process is very straightforward and saves lots of time as network engineering does not have to do individual devices and save lots of time and weekend activity.

Automation

With the integration with Ansible and Terraform, users can write code and manage the Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure tenant using it. This helped reduce the human error and save the time so that user can conccentrate on more proudctive business related work. User also get the opportunity to fix the other issue.

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?

Yes

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

Yes

Other Software Used

Cisco Nexus Dashboard

Likelihood to Recommend

If you want to logically separate your network but have different business lines server connected to it at the same leaf, it is very easily doable using Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure. End point group will let you control communication between different EGP's. Contract structure can become very clumsy and difficult to read. Need help in reading contract structure and identifying of overlapping or unused contracts.

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Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure is the way to go