Cisco ACI Stability
Cisco ACI is one hundred percent stable. My company's data centers never went down in six years of using the solution.
View full review »I rate Cisco ACI ten out of ten for stability.
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RaviKumar4
Senior DGM at Bharat Electronics Limited
ACI's stability is good - I would rate it 3.5 out of five.
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Cisco ACI
April 2024
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Cisco ACI is highly stable. I've deployed it at six or seven data centers, and we've never had any issues with stability. It's a hundred percent reliable, but you have to consider some things. You can't deploy any version of your box and expect it to be stable because Cisco has some rules. For example, Cisco has a recommended version. It means that other versions may contain bugs.
Starting in 2000, if you open a switch, you will see a small motherboard, and the switch will work forever. There was no configuration. You just ran a few commands, and everything was done. Today, when you open a switch, you see a whole computer. For example, you can deploy the Cisco Catalyst 9000 with Python script. So there have been a lot of improvements and a lot of things.
Also, when they update ACI, you will face some bugs because this isn't a limited motherboard. Now, the motherboard is like a computer. You can expect some bugs, but you won't have that many issues compared to other solutions if you use the recommended version.
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Sanjay Gaiswal
Post Sales Manager at Vcom Teachnologies
I would rate the stability an eight out of ten.
View full review »I have found the stability to be good. I'd rate it nine out of ten.
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Mohamed Kamel
Datacenter & Infrastructure Senior Engineer at BMB
After version 5, it became a very stable product.
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AbhinavSingh
Technical Marketing Engineer - Hybrid Cloud Infrastructures at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Cisco ACI could be more stable. Bugs create performance issues.
On a scale from one to ten, I would give stability a six.
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Vahid_Nazari
Data Center Consulting Engineer at Techrun Stock Exchange
It exhibits remarkable stability, particularly from ACI version five onwards. For instance, the stock exchange infrastructure I've worked with has been operating flawlessly on ACI for almost two years now, with no significant issues. I would rate it ten out of ten.
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reviewer2109174
Network Architect at a government with 10,001+ employees
Cisco ACI is stable, and we haven't had any problems with the stability of the system.
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manager813261
Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
I rate the solution a nine and a half out of ten for stability.
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reviewer1128744
Manager Network & Communication Engineer at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is definitely stable.
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Dinesh Thathanath
Sr Manager at Cognizant
So far, the stability has been good. There have been a lot of updates going in and things are getting a lot better.
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Vijay-Pandey
Network Architect at Neev limited
Cisco ACI used to be unstable, but after version 4.2, it's been very stable in the production environment.
View full review »I rate the product's stability a nine out of ten.
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Navee Srichaiyanont
IT manager at IRPC PCL
The solution's stability is okay.
View full review »From an operational perspective, I think if you configure the fabric correctly, it's stable.
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John Sweet
Network Manager at California Department of Corrections
The stability of this solution is great. We love it.
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reviewer1614012
Solution Consultant at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The solution is stable. We don't have issues with it crashing or freezing.
View full review »Cisco ACI is a stable product.
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Gael Ravot
Network Engineer at Direction des Systemes d'Information, Etat de Vaud
The stability is good.
View full review »Cisco ACI has matured and is a very stable product.
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Michel RASIAH
Network Engineer at Societe Generale
It is to early to evaluate the stability.
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NIBRAS FARES
Networking Specialist at Saudi Business Machines - SBM
Occasionally, we encounter the need to reset certain programs due to bugs within one of the implemented data features. This requires performing upgrades approximately every six months to address and resolve these issues. I would rate its stability capability eight out of ten.
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reviewer1539390
Chief Security Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
I give the stability an eight out of ten.
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Ruben Del Monte
Network Consulting Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
I haven't seen any major issues with stability.
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Mark Hayden
Lead Network Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
With the stability so far we've had very few issues with Cisco ACI. A couple of routing problems that were glitches within ACI. Other than that, the environment is stable and we like it.
View full review »It is very stable.
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George Ribarski
Information Security Architect at Progress Software Corporation
The stability has been good.
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Imran Alvi
Network Consultant at Onstack Inc
The stability is good. Initially, it was not that good, but now it's really good with the new code.
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Director6a4a
Director Design, Architecture & Security at Syntax Systems GmbH & Co KG
In the beginning, the stability was not that good. However, the code now seems to be stable.
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reviewer1887492
Assistant Vice President at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
Early on, Cisco ACI was not stable. As it matures, it improves. Integration is the biggest challenge with this hybrid solution. From a security perspective, it wasn't stable.
The maintenance of Cisco ACI depends on the project. We use different delivery teams or supporting teams on a project-by-project basis. We handle the delivery and implementation and in the back end, there is a third team that maintains operations.
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reviewer1334937
Consultant Engineer at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
It's stable.
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PaulIlavarasu Balasekar
Technical Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
I feel the stability is very good. We have had some issues but the support we get from Cisco is always good.
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Federico Nicolelli
Network and Security Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
At the moment, the stability is very good. A year and a half ago, sometimes things went wrong with it.
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ITNetwor78fd
IT Networker Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
It is stable but we have faced some problems with troubleshooting.
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Dash Brousseau
Network Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
For stability, it seems fine. I have no complaints about that.
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Bojan Jambresic
Senior Network Engineer
The stability has been good so far. We still haven't brought our entire workload into ACI. We just have particular systems running on it, but they are perfectly stable. However, there is still the question mark of what will happen when we bring all our data into the new environment, and If it can carry it.
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NetworkAc25c
Network Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
It is stable. The updates for Cisco ACI have been consistent with no failures.
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SeniorNe9978
Senior Network Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The early versions of the code were buggy but now, they've gotten better. The code a year ago wasn't so great. Now, it's much cleaner and more stable.
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Syed Ali Wajahat
IT Solution Architect at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's a very stable product in terms of switching fabric. It's quite reliable. It doesn't fail that much compared to other switching platforms. There are some things you need to be cautious of, like when you are configuring contracts. When you are configuring L4 and L7, you need to be aware of what type of configuration you're doing. Sometimes when you are configuring something which is third-party, not Cisco, you need to be aware of what the end result will be. So you need to do it in a test environment first, and then do it in production.
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DarrylG
Technology Support Specialist at Fujitsu
Stability-wise, we really have not had any issues with it. It's pretty stable. That's a good thing.
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NetworkE88af
Network Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
The stability has been decent so far. We have ran into some issues: 50 percent hardware and 50 percent software, but we solved them quite quickly.
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NetworkE67f2
Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Previously, the product has had its stability issues. Now, it seems more or less okay.
In the past, there were some bugs we ran into, but those have been solved. They took some time, and we had downtime due to them. However, we have quite a good connection with Cisco tech support.
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Platformbd19
Platform Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Since I joined, we have had about two or three outages. Sometimes the controller to the device interaction can be problematic, but otherwise, it has been quite stable.
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Byron Hooper
Senior Network Engineer at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
The stability has been good so far. We've got a big project to start doing upgrades on it. But it's been very stable and functioning properly. We haven't really had any issues with it as long as I've been here at the company. I'm sure there were some issues during deployment cause that was before my time. But it's been very stable for me.
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NetworkEc10c
Network Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
We haven't had any issues with stability so far. This is going to be concluded after doing some DR testing.
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NetworkA270c
Network Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
The stability is generally very good, but not perfect, because it has let us down before.
View full review »It is very stable. It has 99 percent availability.
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DataCent582b
Data Center Implementation Engineer at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
The product itself is very stable. As long as it is deployed with care and solid core objects it will remain stable.
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ITEvolutd7ab
IT Evolution Manager at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The hardware is not stable. We have switches failing.
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RaviKumar17
Solution Architect
The solution is stable.
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reviewer1494225
Network Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
It is stable and reliable.
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Assistan77f2
Assistant Director IT at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
It has been very stable. Upgrades have been very easy. We have no real complaints about the stability of the Cisco ACI platform.
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Director5596
Director of Network and Security at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
This solution is very stable now, although it has had hiccups, for sure.
Most of the early struggles with ACI were not that it would go down. Rather, it was more the stability of the management platform, which has improved a lot over time.
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SystemsNd760
Systems Network Manager at a non-tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have been in a lot of sessions with them and have done a lot of work with it in the lab. We've seen it grow over time. The early versions of the code were buggy and flakey, but as they have gone through newer iterations, we've seen it get better. It is at the point now where were are comfortable with it going into a production data center.
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PedroCardenas
Sr. Voice Engineer at SGWS
This product is pretty stable.
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Razvan Valceanu
Systems Engineer at a tech services company
The solution is stable. I haven't seen it crash.
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Nicolas Deslauriers
Project Manager at Radio France
The stability is perfect. We have had no problems with Cisco ACI.
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Pau Sastre Vazquez
Network Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The product is working well. It is stable. However, the solution is a bit big for us to configure.
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Anders Westermann
Network Specialist at a comms service provider
It is very stable. It allows us to update firmware on the go without any downtime, which we couldn't do before. Everything is redundant, so if you shutdown one system, then another one takes over.
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NetworkE623b
Network Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
The stability seems great. It's stable so far and we haven't run into too many issues at all.
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NetworkM787d
Network Manager at a university with 501-1,000 employees
This solution has been very solid. We've had no problems in the three years that we have been using it.
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SrNetEng2781
Sr Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Right now it's stable. We haven't had to create any support issues. When doing the implementation, support was quite useful where, if somebody made a wrong connection to some other part of the network, the wrong port, they were able to track it and solve it. But in day-to-day operations, we haven't had any issues.
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Grzegorz Dygon
Specialist Lab Network at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
It's stable. I don't think we have had any downtime or lag. It works fine.
View full review »The first time we used it, it was not stable, but now, a few years later, it's better. Cisco continues to work on this. If anything is not stable, tech helps us.
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Marcin Dobrzynski
ICT Expert at Orange Polska
It is very stable. It works 100 percent of the time. We don't have any problems at the moment.
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Integratdbf1
Senior Network Security Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The stability of this solution is pretty good.
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Infrastr4106
Infrastructure Engineer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
The stability of the solution looks good. The only roadblock is that it is a big change to Cisco networking.
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Esteve Codina
IT Network Engineer at MANGO
It's very stable.
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NetworkA92ac
Network Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It is very stable.
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reviewer1307187
Technology Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Our customers are very much satisfied with the stability. We do not have any issues with it.
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Omer Yavuz
Head Engineer at Havelsan Hava Elektronik Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.s.
It is stable.
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NetworkE6ce9
Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is quite stable. We have not had any problems. I believe it is because of the way it is built.
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NetworkE663b
Network Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It is pretty good once it is in, then up and running. The stability is fine. I haven't had many issues.
View full review »Again, it has lots of bugs as we're the first Canadian company for which it's been used.
View full review »So far, Cisco ACI's stability has been good because they use the Nexus hardware but with different software.
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NetworkE1539
Network Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
It is stable. We don't have any complaints.
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Mathys Chauvain
Network Engineer at BPCE Infogérance & Technologies
The product is stable. We use it all day.
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NetworkE486a
Network Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The stability is not bad, but could be improved. In the beginning, we had integration problems, but now, it is more stable.
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Presalesd6c5
Pre-sales Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
I am not using it day-to-day at the moment. My impression is it is working fine.
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ITNetwor4773
IT Network at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees
From my experience, it seems like a really stable product. The only thing that concerns me a bit is the fact that you have a lot of errors. It gives you a lot of error messages and they mostly don't really influence the functionality, so it still works. It just notifies that there is some misconfiguration and I think it will scare people with these kinds of messages that don't really have an influence on the functions. Operating the ACI fabric is a concern I have.
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Collabor130b
Sr. IT System Administration at a government with 10,001+ employees
This solution is pretty stable.
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Principa2c58
Principal Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
The stability of this solution is ok.
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NetworkE07e9
Network Engineer at a political organization with 10,001+ employees
It seems fairly stable. We have not had any major hiccups.
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NetworkAc8df
Network Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It is a very stable product.
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Andrea Margheritini
Project Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The product's stability is quite good.
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CloudAdva9fe
Cloud Advisory Consultant at Accenture
The stability is good, but it is not the best. New releases keep coming out all the time.
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Cisco ACI
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Cisco ACI. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
767,667 professionals have used our research since 2012.