Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure is the way to go
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure as our prime datacenter technology. It helped consolidate the different business lines into one physical box, allowing them to be logistically separate. It added programmability so that we can do repetitive tasks with a click of a button, reducing human error. Help reduce datacenter footprint.
Pros
- Network segregation
- Network security
- Visibility
Cons
- User ability to troubleshoot
- East west traffic visibility
- Good tool to monitor
Likelihood to Recommend
If you want to logically separate your network but have different business lines server connected to it at the same leaf, it is very easily doable using Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure. End point group will let you control communication between different EGP's. Contract structure can become very clumsy and difficult to read. Need help in reading contract structure and identifying of overlapping or unused contracts.
