We performed a comparison between Aruba Instant On Switches and Cisco Nexus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two LAN Switching solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Aruba's management solutions, like Aruba Central are valuable."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The stability is fine. I would rate the stability a nine out of ten. Almost a ten on a ten."
"The online monitoring tool and the configuration of the application with the tool are valuable features."
"It is straightforward to set up."
"The solution is suitable for small businesses and small offices."
"The solution provides GUI control, making it particularly suitable for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and small office/home office (SOHO) networks."
"We use Aruba Instant On Switches for general communication, sending files, and going to the internet."
"Cisco Nexus is very safe and stable. I've been here 8 months. We have some devices that have been out for 11 years."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it scales well. It supports a lot of servers. We don't have to come up with different designs for anything. That's the best part about it."
"It's pretty easy to use and operates at high speed."
"In terms of stability, this solution is rock solid."
"The consolidation of all of the layer two ports into one rack is very valuable."
"This product has improved the way our organization functions in the way that the rack-based design allowed us to eliminate chassis-based designs. The chassis design is more complicated to manage and maintain in field operations."
"The most valuable features are that it is easy to use, provides stability, easy to configure, low latency, and it provides communication to the data center."
"It provides a very flexible connection to a server. When you go into history and the VPC, it provides a very flexible connection from it. Once a server goes down I can instruct it easily. So the network actually keeps quality even if onsite it is down."
"We would like to see more documentation."
"Tracking with instant switches needs improvement."
"It is not a very scalable solution."
"The pricing is competitive but could be improved."
"In the next version, they should add a firewall from a single source."
"Room for improvement would be if they consolidated administration from multiple locations."
"The solution’s GUI should be improved a bit."
"In general, mostly in Instant On series, if we could have much more control on the switches, at least. We'd like a CLI access so that, when we want to do some advanced configurations we could."
"One improvement needed is support for Multi-CAD scale that we were concerned about. We're not hitting any limits at this point."
"The product could be updated more frequently for other phone model support."
"If I call during a high volume, I might get someone that just doesn't know as much or it takes a little bit of time and they put us on hold more. Otherwise, it's good."
"Areas in which the solution have room for improvement are the interface, management, and reporting."
"Nothing is perfect."
"This solution costs a lot."
"The only thing to improve is to continue to get better."
"Some of the DHCP features need improvement."
Aruba Instant On Switches is ranked 4th in LAN Switching with 21 reviews while Cisco Nexus is ranked 6th in LAN Switching with 101 reviews. Aruba Instant On Switches is rated 8.4, while Cisco Nexus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Aruba Instant On Switches writes "A very stable tool that needs to offer better startup speed". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Nexus writes " Offer high performance capabilities and enables efficient data transmission and processing". Aruba Instant On Switches is most compared with HPE ProCurve, Cisco Catalyst Switches and NETGEAR Switches, whereas Cisco Nexus is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Juniper QFX Series Switches, Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches and HPE ProCurve. See our Aruba Instant On Switches vs. Cisco Nexus report.
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