About ACI Rack Rentals
We started ACI Rack Rentals to put enterprise-grade hardware in the hands of every engineer—no colo contract or six-figure budget required. Our fully automated lab platform lets you validate designs, rehearse upgrades, and ace certifications on the exact gear you’ll run in prod.
Each reservation powers up a clean fabric, loads your chosen ACI image, and exposes secure console endpoints within minutes. When your session ends, a cryptographic wipe destroys configs and logs, ensuring complete isolation for the next user.
- Racks online
- 48
- POCs delivered
- 2.4K
- Avg. spin-up time
- 4 min
Our values
The principles that guide every feature we build and every rack we maintain.
- Real hardware, real results
- Every lab runs on production-grade Cisco leaf, spine, and APIC nodes—no simulators, no compromises. What you test here behaves exactly like your data-center fabric.
- Automation first
- From power-on to clean wipe, our pipeline handles imaging, cabling, and snapshots so you spend time validating design—not waiting on gear.
- Zero vendor bias
- We host vanilla images straight from Cisco TAC and let you load your own tools. Results are yours; we don’t gate features behind a paywall.
- Security & privacy
- Isolated VLANs, TLS-only console endpoints, and auto-wipe scripts ensure your configs, keys, and logs are gone the moment your booking ends.
- Community-driven learning
- We publish reference topologies and share-play videos so every engineer can level up, not just the ones with big hardware budgets.
- Fair, transparent pricing
- Our token model charges by the hour—pause anytime, never lose unused balance, and see exactly where every token goes.