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."It scales very well. When you increasingly scale with it, it makes the product easier to work with."
"Cisco technical support is great."
"It improves security and automation."
"We use Cisco ACI for perimeter security and threat detection."
"The stability is perfect. We have had no problems with Cisco ACI."
"The centralized configuration is its most valuable feature."
"I especially like the host-based routing feature of Cisco ACI because it's straightforward to do it on different data centers. Another valuable feature of Cisco ACI is that its management controller works very well with no issues."
"With its programmability, you can do stuff to policies to make them more flexible, allowing you to connect devices in new ways."
"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."
"There were issues when upgrading venues and registering devices."
"The tool's initial deployment is complex and takes five hours to complete."
"Technical support needs to be more helpful. It's rare that you get a knowledgeable person."
"It would be great if ACI would include the next generation firewall feature."
"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 learning curve is long. It's very difficult to learn Cisco ACI. As a result, our customers usually have difficulty working with this solution."
"I wish that if I had to open up an additional tab, I wouldn't have to log in every single time."
"My complaint about this is: We purchased the ACI gear, but to do monitoring, to do stats, to do telemetry statistics, etc. we have to purchase another product from Cisco."
"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, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, Nuage Networks and Juniper Contrail Networking, whereas Cisco APIC-EM [EOL] is most compared with .
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