We performed a comparison between Cisco Nexus and HPE A-Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Arista, Dell Technologies and others in Data Center Networking."Cisco Nexus and Cisco Catalyst have processing power and offer good utilization of Cisco devices."
"This solution streamlines how we have to configure things because we can do everything from one device, whereas if we had individual devices we would have to go to each one and configure them manually."
"The integrations are valuable."
"The most valuable features are extensions and recorded scalability."
"We have found that logical tenant segregation to be the most useful feature."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the power."
"The interface is as user-friendly as you can make it."
"The setup was very easy, but managing it in operations was very complex."
"The solution is very stable."
"One of the biggest challenges, which I see is that there's a constant evolution in the product. For example, our configuration is based on what is known as traditional data center implementation. Today there is the ACI deployment and to implement, to migrate from one technology to another, that's challenging both from a configuration perspective and also from a cost perspective."
"In the next release of the solution, I would like to see varying integration between VRF (Virtual Routing and Forwarding) instances so we can integrate BGB into different VRFs in a more organized way. We have some issues with tunnels and VRFs."
"Nexus is a costly solution."
"My only complaint is that not all of the ports on it are enabled from the start."
"Multi contexts would be nice to have to separate different tenants logically and securely."
"This solution costs a lot."
"The initial setup was somewhat complex."
"The code quality for this solution has gotten worse and needs improvement."
"Some follow up from our user-partners would be useful. Letting users know what is up and coming or providing better documentation would be helpful. Overall, the solution could offer its users better support."
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Cisco Nexus is ranked 3rd in Data Center Networking with 101 reviews while HPE A-Series is ranked 9th in Data Center Networking. Cisco Nexus is rated 8.4, while HPE A-Series is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco Nexus writes " Offer high performance capabilities and enables efficient data transmission and processing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE A-Series writes "Stable and scalable with a good user interface". Cisco Nexus is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Juniper QFX Series Switches, Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches and Juniper MX Series Universal Routing Platforms, whereas HPE A-Series is most compared with .
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