6800 IA - evidence for bad?

[wintermute000]

I've been reading stuff (mostly on reddit) re: how Instant Access for the 6800s is borked - unreliable and buggy - also comments re: that development is a dead end


Does anyone have anything a bit more official on this topic and/or just more anecdotal evidence but this time from our trusted community (instead of random redditors who may/may not know their head from their arses)

[mlan]

Very interested in this topic as well, especially real-world experience.  We looked at this technology multiple times over the last few years, but lack of budget kept us from pulling the trigger.

[wintermute000]

Just got some horror stories from a colleague but no issues in last 12 months since they stumbled upon stable code

[that1guy15]

Ive made it a point when talking with VAR/consulting buddies or Enterprise network guys to ask about IA over the past 2 years or so. I have yet to talk with anyone who has deployed it. I have also yet to hear of anyone deploying it and saying they are happy with it.

Does that mean there are not successful deployments of it? no. But the void that appears to be IA is pretty telling to me. Even when I talk with internal Cisco people its the same stuff.

I think the network industry has moved past the idea of shared control-plane and is shifting focus to central mangement but distributed control-plane via automation or a software product.

Check out APIC-EM. Looks to me like APIC-EM is what all the Cisco enterprise guys are getting behind.

[wintermute000]

Right now apic em is a gui over a few prebuilt ansible scenarios (provision qos, provision iwan etc). The control plane bit has yet to happen. They're definitely pushing to ACI the campus though