We performed a comparison between Cisco ACI and Cisco DNA Virtualization [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, VMware, Array Networks and others in Network Virtualization."It offers multitenancy. The opportunity to install it on the same platform with a huge amount of customers."
"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."
"Automation is its most valuable feature."
"It improves security and automation."
"Centralized management and control of the entire data center environment and its architecture."
"I like using WebEx Board."
"It is very easy to do the configuration after you know how to work with the product. It is global, so you change one interface, and changes are reflected on every switch."
"It is more scalable than our previous products."
"Cisco has a good technical support team."
"The management aspect of the solution is its most valuable feature. Software-defined issues have been good for us. It makes the management process easy."
"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."
"It needs to be able to function on the cloud."
"The product needs to be simpler. There is too much complexity in ACI. 80 percent of its features are of no use to us. We could do with a simplified version."
"Better troubleshooting features would be helpful. In ACI, it can be a big mess, a real headache to troubleshoot a single issue... The troubleshooting part, and the information that ACI gives you, sometimes don't give you a proper, inside picture of what's going on within the fabric."
"Where there is room for improvement from ACI is for Layer 2 and Layer 7 packages. Normally, when you're updating your ACI fabric or you're introducing new Layer 4 to Layer 7 devices, there are some constraints, there are some limitations... When you are doing device packages you will not have the functionality of ASM. It's like WAF, web application firewalls. So you need to configure it manually."
"An area for improvement in Cisco ACI is security, which Cisco needs to enhance in the solution. Though Cisco ACI uses a whitelist model, you must purchase an external product, such as a security firewall solution, to make whitelisting work, which the customer could find expensive. For example, you're a customer who has Cisco ACI, and the solution doesn't have IP-based filtering, so as a customer, you've purchased Cisco ACI. However, you still need to buy another product for security, and some customers wouldn't like that. However, some customers prefer to go with Cisco ACI because of its scalability and flexibility versus other solutions such as Juniper and Aruba. Technical support for Cisco ACI also needs improvement, particularly in product knowledge."
"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."
"The way the objects are oriented on it are not as straightforward as they should be."
"The stability of the solution could be improved."
"It would be helpful to have better information on how to implement this product."
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Cisco ACI is ranked 1st in Network Virtualization with 96 reviews while Cisco DNA Virtualization [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Network Virtualization. Cisco ACI is rated 8.0, while Cisco DNA Virtualization [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 DNA Virtualization [EOL] writes "Scalable with a straightforward setup and good management capabilities". Cisco ACI is most compared with VMware NSX, Cisco Secure Workload, Nuage Networks, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Juniper Contrail Networking, whereas Cisco DNA Virtualization [EOL] is most compared with .
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