Cisco ACI Pricing and License Cost
If you compare the licensing and total cost of ACI, it's cheaper than NSX because of the licensing fees. If you are going for full NSX features it will be too expensive, especially the next-generation firewalling feature. View full review »
I'm not involved in the pricing part, but Cisco has come up with Smart Licensing, which is a bit higher. But now they're giving the customers very good discount rates to bring customers in. View full review »
We don't license the products ourselves. The clients that we implement for also license it with Cisco. As it stands right now, the licensing structure hasn't been fully fleshed out for ACI. So, if Cisco hasn't fully fleshed it out, I'm not sure what the cost is going to be yet. View full review »
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We bought a package for hardware, software, and support. At that time, Cisco was simply selling that package to distributors, then we opted for it directly. View full review »
We have the smart licensing, but that was supported when we bought ACI. Smart licensing was not there previously. Recently, we migrated to the new code. We had to convert to smart licensing. Licensing is for the overall number of nodes. We have a license for all 1,000 nodes right now. View full review »
Once you sign for the start kit implementation, you have to go all the way through to the implementation, even if you are experiences issues. View full review »
A big company can automate it themselves or spend a lot of money and buy it. View full review »
The pricing is pretty good for new technology. View full review »
The price could be improved. It is expensive, but then again, it is Cisco. The price is worth what you pay for. View full review »
It's expensive but the product is very good. I have never found another partner like Cisco with a solution like this and with great support. View full review »
We don't use all of the features but it's still worth the money. View full review »
The thing that I like the most from Cisco is the support and all the documentation that they have. We do have to pay for it though. View full review »
Price is always an issue. View full review »
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