Unable to reserve anything ACI - ACI -6.0 / ACI Always-on Instance

[ag-scilo]

Hi DevNet Team,

We're experiencing significant issues accessing ACI sandbox environments for our development work:

• ACI Always-On is down for maintenance (per homepage notification)
• ACI Simulator 6.0 has been unavailable for 2 days - consistently shows "maximum concurrent environments reached"
• We have no active reservations running

This is significantly impacting our development/testing timeline. Could you please help with:

1. Estimated maintenance completion time for Always-On
2. Access to ACI Simulator 6.0 during this period
3. Any alternative solutions

We'd appreciate any guidance you can provide.

[bigevilbeard]

@ag-scilo have a lot a look a dCloud for options here. DevNet sandbox is very popular and a first come first serve basis.

[Torbjørn · Accepted solution]

As @bigevilbeard said above the sandboxes are a limited shared resource. Cisco does not currently commit to any type of SLA for the sandbox environments, and I don't expect them to do this in the future either. If you depend on having a dev/test environment available in your daily operations I would highly suggest deploying the ACI simulator on your own infrastructure. If you lack access to the download your partner manager/account manager should be able to help you.

[ag-scilo]

Thank you for your response. We attempted to deploy the ACI Simulator on our local ESXi 8.0.3 environment; however, we encountered network issues where the simulator was unable to reach the gateway. All recommended settings were applied, but the problem persisted.

Could you please confirm if there is an official compatibility matrix that maps specific ACI Simulator versions to supported ESXi/vCenter releases? Additionally, are there any known compatibility issues between ESXi 8.0.3 and the ACI Simulator version 6.0(9c)?

[bigevilbeard]

@ag-scilo I believe there isn’t a document that give that detail, from what I recall the  documentation generally refers to supporting "ESX servers" and "VMware vCenters," but specific versions not listed. 

I would post this as a question in the ACI community here https://community.cisco.com/t5/application-centric-infrastructure/bd-p/12206936-discussions-aci