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."The interface is easy to use. It is not much different from iOS, but you can use it on a larger scale in data centers."
"The solution has introduced VPC, Virtual Port Channel, which allows for more redundancy and flexibility."
"The setup was very easy, but managing it in operations was very complex."
"The scalability of the solution is well beyond anything I would ever need."
"This solution has given us the ability to use Cisco ISE for security."
"Cisco Nexus has good overall reliability and configuration options. It is fairly straightforward to access the switching platforms."
"The most valuable features of this solution are scalability and throughput."
"From a data center implementation, with respect to competition from your data, there isn't really a product recovery for the different tests other than Cisco Nexus. For example, if you take Multi-tenancy for the data center, it's something which, I think, only Cisco has. There are some implementation from HP, but I think it's limited there."
"The solution is very stable."
"The product lacks options for integration with other market products that would allow us more flexibility."
"We have encountered some software bugs."
"I would like to see the integration of the products into something where it's seamless where an engineer never touches the switch again, never does CLI and you move to an application based network organization."
"Ease-of-use and making things more human-readable is most important."
"I would like to see a central management solution in order to have all of the equipment in one place."
"We lag on the configuration. The changes make a difference in troubleshooting."
"The solution has room for improvement in terms of the learning curve."
"I would like to see more on-device programmability, as it seems to be lacking in this platform."
"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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