What is your primary use case for Cisco ACI?

We primarily use it for network-centric applications and environments. It's mostly used for migrating traditional three-tier networks to the ACI infrastructure.

The solution helps with business continuity.

We use Cisco ACI for data center software-defined networking. Instead of restricting ourselves to older Cisco data center networking like 6500 switches for servers or Nexus devices or 6500 core switches, I personally like the flexibility of Cisco ACI to grow the data center footprint and stability Cisco was promising with new 6500 like architecture. That is when I decided to go for software-defined networking, where you can program things and do it better. We also had something coming up on the horizon where two different MUFG entities were likely to come together and start consolidating Infrastructure, namely MUFG Bank and MUFG Securities. Cisco ACI is like cloud data center networking or cloud networking in your private DCs, where you have a multi-tenancy. The real use case for Cisco ACI was to segment two different entities and put them on the same network hardware but still have a completely segregated separate environment. That was the reason why we went for Cisco ACI.

We deploy Cisco ACI within our customer's data centers, providing them with the capability to configure the software-defined network as per their defined requirements. This solution empowers customers to centrally monitor and control the network without the need for individual edge management. Moreover, it offers scalability, allowing for easy expansion in the future.

Cisco ACI is used as an automation solution for the DC environment. The solution is also used for the implementation of agile services with the customer sites.

We use Cisco ACI for perimeter security and threat detection.

Over the past six years, I've gained extensive experience with Cisco ACI, working on diverse solutions. This includes multi-site projects, like one involving a private bank with interconnected data centers utilizing Dark Fiber and Cisco ACI for seamless operations. I've also successfully integrated Cisco ACI with Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift to support container-based applications. I've played a dual role as an instructor, teaching Cisco ACI topics, and actively participating in various ACI-related projects. These projects have covered single-site, multi-site, and multi-tenant infrastructures, involving aspects like design, implementation, troubleshooting, and training, giving me a comprehensive understanding of the ACI ecosystem.

My clients use Cisco ACI for multi-site connectivity. They can use it to deploy multiple data centers and can manage the entire network from Cisco ACI Multi-Site.

We have several customers who are using Cisco ACI. In my opinion, Cisco ACI is the most powerful solution from Cisco. It is a very strong solution and was recently developed by Cisco, especially because of the Cisco ACI fabric. Cisco ACI is a declarative model or object-based model that focuses on application-centric policies rather than traditional network validation. It uses spine-leaf topology. It eliminates the need for customers to spend time configuring their network, routing, and switching. Instead, they can simply initialize the fabric and design their application based on their policy. It's a pretty advanced solution and eliminates a lot of headaches.

Our primary use case is replacing Nexus 7000 with Cisco NX-OS. We would like to replace this actuator with the newer Cisco ACI platform. We currently use Cisco Nexus 9000.

We use this solution to achieve a properly defined data center, so we basically use it for SDN.

I primarily use ACI to design data centers.

Cisco ACI is primarily used for automation of the data center networking environment.

My customers use Cisco ACI to replace the legacy networks that they have. Most of the time, however, they don't seem to be using the functionalities that are specific to ACI. They just use the base consumer functionalities similar to what they were using in the old solution.

Our primary use case is project-based. We deploy and configure upgraded ACIs, registered spines and leaves, and deliver projects to our customers. I'm a network consultant and we are gold partners of Cisco.

Cisco ACI is the next-generation SDN-based solution that Cisco uses for almost every style of data center or server farm. It's similar to what we used when we wanted to build a facility containing our computing storage and everything we already have in our data center. However, this one is different because it uses innovative technology that combines VXLAN, MP-BGP, and SDN. It has an amazing graphical user interface, and it integrates well with other brands like VMware. You can even integrate ACI with NSX in the latest versions. ACI integrates with NSX in version 5 and above. You can also use it with Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Cloud Foundry. It also has agents for cloud platforms like AWS and Azure.

We use Cisco ACI in the data center

We have two clusters, the first one of which I upgraded last week to version 4.6, with the main cluster being, at the moment, 4.2. We are talking about simple things with which we use the solution, such as employing Cisco firewalls for protecting or managing some of the data. I actually managed a huge and very complicated corporate network, it being separated in many locations. We have i1 solutions and outstations which are all connected to our network. My primary focus nowadays is on our communication, on the head office network. We have a perimeter firewall when it comes to the hub, which is responsible for outbound and inbound traffic, in respect of the public services for outbound customers and outbound internet traffic for the internal RJ customers. Our current H firewall is Fortinet, being the 3000 D series. There is a separation into five Vdoms, or virtual domains, which themselves are separated into a data center, firewall, VBN, publishing services, and proxy as a proxy firewall. Routing mythology comes into play. At the moment, we have our AS number and BGP configuration with many service providers for the purpose of maintaining high availability and redundancy. So too, the Fortinet firewall is working in high availability mode.

In the last nine months, I have done two projects with Cisco ACI. Both of them were banking systems. I'm capable of selling, installing, and deploying Cisco ACI, so I know all the licenses and prices as well as how to compare the prices and establish a pre-sales team and also doing the deployment and supporting the ACA solutions.

This is software-defined networking. So, all the configuration done on a customer network is done with this application. I am using the version before the latest version.

Primarily, what we like is the ability to do micro-segmentation. We have many different application endpoints, and one of the key use cases for us was to be able to classify the application endpoints into arbitrary buckets of different silos. We need to be able to ensure that different endpoints will go into, let's say, a production silo, versus a development silo, versus a test silo. That was one of the use cases. The function above and beyond that is that you get things like automation as part of the SDN framework. Therefore, you get the data center overlay that is built automatically and provisioned automatically from the automation capability that's built-in.

I am an implementer. Whenever a customer purchases this solution, I go on-site and deploy it for them.

I am a technology consultant and my company is implementing this product for data center networking.

I worked with this solution in my lab to prepare it for deployment.

We implement customized Cisco ACI for our clients as a networking solution for a variety of purposes.

Our primary use for this solution is centralization.

We use this solution for our data center infrastructure. We are a small, private university, supporting a mix of cloud and on-premise applications.

The primary use case for Cisco ACI is for managing our data center and network switches. We will use it for the whole data center environment eventually.

We are transforming from an old legacy, non-Cisco network to a state-of-the-art data center. Cisco ACI is reducing a lot of competence on the network. We are reducing a lot of assets, a footprint itself. It has one single pane of glass management. We use it to support our clients.

Our primary use case for the Cisco ACI solution is the data center.

Our primary use case for Cisco ACI in our company is to have a central point to manage our network and to do API automation. Those are the two main focuses to automate.

We have purchased this solution for our network, but we have not deployed it yet.

We use this solution in our data centers. It is for connecting servers and increasing our bandwidth and resiliency.

Our primary use for Cisco ACI is to separate networks that don't want to talk to each other except for set work.

This solution is used in our data center.

We use this solution to implement a network overlay. We have a software-defined network in our data center.

The primary use case is for the data center.

It is an upgrade from our previous data center technology.

Our primary use case for this solution is to use it as our data center backbone. We've got multiple tenants built on it in a network-centric design. We have our Dev\QA Tenant, User Acceptance Tenant, Production Tenant, DMZ, and then UserEdge, where everything basically comes in and goes out. We have Firepower firewalls in-between, but we're basically using Cisco ACI to microsegment between the networks within the tenants. But intra-tenant traffic goes through the firewalls.

The primary use case for ACI in our company is to do data center segmentation to move our network to a zero-trust model.

Our primary use case for Cisco ACI is to connect data center devices.

Our primary use for this solution is in our data center.

I'm in ACI operations and the current use for Cisco ACI is to host the entire server farm and all the applications which are hosted in our data center, here in Qatar, and also in different locations.

I am an engineer who deploys ACI. Most of the deployments cover L2 Out and L3 Out and migrations.

The primary use case is in an environment where the customer has a very large virtual compute and a lot of physical compute as well - in terms of the number of servers - and a big heterogeneous firewall. They want to converge their racks where they have a physical firewall and a virtual firewall. They have their metal servers and VMware or Hyper-V VMs. This is the best use case. This is where ACI fits best because it can integrate the physical and virtual environments together within a single fabric. It can give a very good overview, an "aerial view" of your whole data center within your fabric. That's the best use case.

We used it as a data center switch. The company - our client - that uses it uses Cisco HyperFlex and FlexPod both connected to Cisco ACI.

My primary use case is for server deployment automation.

Instead of using traditional network structures we use ACI for network function mutualization. The mutualization of network devices and also for the control of automatization to manage the internet public.

The primary use case for this product is to enhance the speed of certain tasks in the network. We get faster deployments of network policies based on applications that we need to provide.

The primary use case is for our data centers. It has performed quite well so far. We interconnected it with our legacy infrastructure. We are now considering moving everything into the new environment, and hoping for the best.

It is a progressive tool. You can automate things with it. It is for a new generation of data centers.

Our primary use case of this solution is for monitoring, automation, links monitoring, configuring of devices, like laptop devices. I use templates and push templates to the devices. We also use it for global software updates.

The primary use case is for data center switching. This is what it was intended to do.

The primary use case was to implement SDN in the data center to bring new technology for the application team.

We want to automate some of the operational tasks of our team. We have many configurations and switches. In the future, we want to deploy a solution where we can configure all our switches in one place. This is why we are looking to use Cisco ACI in the future.

Our primary use case is to provide a replacement for our existing infrastructure in the data center. It's part of our lifecycle management.

We use it to design and manager our network. There are a lot of places inside the building, and we have to bring the new network everywhere to help us.

We started working with a customer which is in the Netherlands. They are really important for us. They started migrating the building of their CRM to ACI. We started with 2.0. We just upgraded the fabric to 3.2. In the next three months, we are aiming to migrate and upgrade the fabric plan to 4.0

We use it for data center management and multitenancy.

Our primary use case is to interconnect both data centers in my corporation.

We are an integrator, so we work with the finance, health, and public sectors. We use it to automate the data center infrastructure of our customers.

Primary use case is data center software-defined networking. We didn't have this before, so are just moving onto these new products to try to be more efficient with better performance.

We are putting ACI into replace the customer's legacy networks, so it's a migration project.

We use ACI with Nexus 9000 in multi-tenancy scenarios.

We're planning to use it as a product to sell to our customers. We are in the business of service integration. We offer solutions for our customers. We have specific customers who have a use for ACI because of the microsegmentation. They have five regional offices which all have five different people who are responsible for managing their site so we are trying to unite them and put everything under one roof and have a single place of control and visibility of the full network specifically for their data center.

We use this product at a French hospital. It has helped to improve the data center and we would like to use it to change how we work with clients.

We use Cisco ACI within our four data centers, and it has been deployed in all four. They are the backbone within our data centers.

The primary use case for Cisco ACI is to migrate a legacy data center, including the new infrastructure. The product has performed well.

Our main use case is for building data center stuff, putting in equipment and provisioning it.

We use it for our data center.

The main purpose is to be a new data center in our company.

We are using it for application centric infrastructure (ACI). It is the evolution of the current data center setup from the legacy design to something programmable with some automation features which are missing today. The key challenge is to set up a new data center, then move all the legacy stuff into the new design. We need to understand how to do it, as are already under way. We already have products, but we need to go farther in the design and development of the platform.

Our use case is to change our network architecture and install new free data centres for our company.

It is used in our data center.

We use it in our data center.

We use it for virtual automation and virtual networking in our data center. It is for virtualized networks instead of physical elements.

We are switching the Nexus line to ACI for our customer: the server, firewall, etc.

We use this product in our services. At this moment, it performs very well.

Our primary use case is for automating our data center. We are moving from a classic legacy data center to new data center, with Cisco UCS. The first implementation will have multiple implementations, then we will move ahead with a Multi-site implementation next year.

Our primary use case is Multi-site architecture. We run three data centers with Cisco ACI Multi-site, so the interconnections of these three sites are made with ACI.

It is used in data centers.

It is installed in the data center, and it works well.

We have it as a data center fabric, so it is layered to Fabric installation.

The primary use case is using the automation for deploying new applications in our data center.

Right now, we are using ACI Fabric to replace legacy equipment.

* Qatar Rail: network and data center infrastructure * Msheireb Downtown: smart city project including infrastructure for Big Data * Ministry of Interior: network design based on Qatar Rail's passive infrastructure.