We performed a comparison between Cisco ACI and Cisco APIC-EM [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, VMware, Array Networks and others in Network Virtualization."With ACI, if you need more capacity you can just buy more and plug them in without needing to do anything else. All of the sudden that infrastructure is there for me to use, configure, and add stuff to."
"The stability is perfect. We have had no problems with Cisco ACI."
"The most useful feature in the ACI is a feature called Service Graph."
"The basic functionality that is the most useful is creating a virtual network on a physical device."
"In a very general way, the ease of access, ease of use, and ease of connecting the system is a valuable feature in itself. The solution doesn't really increase detection rates as that is not what it was created for. Threat prevention comes in from other devices that might be connected into the Cisco ACI that monitors external traffic. It maintains what end-of-life products would be doing and offers other opportunities to unify solutions."
"It improves security and automation."
"The straightforward migration of all of the applications and loop balancing are the two most valuable features. Also, the measurement of their customer-wide sources is very straightforward. It's another dimension of the networks."
"The centralized configuration is its most valuable feature."
"The environment enables a DevOps culture, continuous delivery, and automated processes."
"Enabling business agility and accelerated time to market with the automated service delivery."
"Eliminating the IT administration silos for our datacenter and infrastructure by providing a single managed and converged infrastructure which provides unified compute, storage, and networking environment with a single point of management."
"The initial setup was a bit complex. ACI was just out at that time, and there wasn't support at that time."
"We have had two calls with technical support. They are not the best. We opened a case to diagnose issues and it's taken weeks to get someone on the case and to move forward."
"ACI's blade servers could be more flexible, and its storage interface is a little too complex because they use some third-party storage solution."
"The user interface should be made easier."
"The error messages should be improved. Sometimes we want to remove an error message so we acknowledge an error and we would then like to remove it but there's no real way of doing that. If we need to do it, we need to open a tech case. That could use improvement."
"The ACI user interface is complex and Cisco should improve it."
"In the new version of 4.0, the management groups for updating the software is not the best way to do it. It was better in 3.2."
"I would like to see a lot more integrations with the rest of the Cisco portfolio."
"Need a better workflow definition tool with tracking on existing provisioned services, and to improve multitasking in the workflow automation."
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Cisco ACI is ranked 1st in Network Virtualization with 96 reviews while Cisco APIC-EM [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Network Virtualization. Cisco ACI is rated 8.0, while Cisco APIC-EM [EOL] is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco ACI writes "Stable, easy to extend, scalable, and has a host-based routing feature". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco APIC-EM [EOL] writes "Enabling business agility and accelerated time to market with the automated service delivery". Cisco ACI is most compared with VMware NSX, Cisco Secure Workload, Nuage Networks, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Juniper Contrail Networking, whereas Cisco APIC-EM [EOL] is most compared with .
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