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."The security component is its most valuable feature."
"It has benefited my organization by saving us a lot of time."
"This solution is easy to configure, and it is done in an object-oriented manner."
"The ability to integrate with other systems is the most valuable feature."
"In legacy networks, managing changes requires individual tickets for each device. ACI's single pane of glass management through APIC is a big advantage. So, single-tenant management is a plus."
"The most useful feature in the ACI is a feature called Service Graph."
"The most valuable feature is the data center communication."
"Building the ACI Fabric is its most valuable feature."
"The environment enables a DevOps culture, continuous delivery, and automated processes."
"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."
"Enabling business agility and accelerated time to market with the automated service delivery."
"It is more about resolving bugs early on in the code. Otherwise, as the product gets more mature and those bugs get discovered sometimes by the customer, then Cisco will resolve them."
"The way the objects are oriented on it are not as straightforward as they should be."
"We're still in the process of doing the migration. We haven't migrated completely all of our applications out of our legacy into it yet. It was challenging at first, but getting easier now that we're starting to get into it."
"I think that technical support tickets should be escalated sooner."
"There should be an alternative "ACI Light" solution for smaller-sized enterprises."
"Biannually, there is a new design delivered by Cisco. Thus, you are always running behind the new design, and it never stops. With Cisco ACI, this has been a nightmare."
"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."
"Cisco SDN will only work with its own devices, so that's a downside."
"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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