We performed a comparison between Cisco Nexus and Juniper QFX Series Switches based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Center Networking solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features are the great performance, high availability and easy administration."
"This product has improved the way our organization functions through the ability to do things in a maintenance window while allowing other teams to continue to work."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its reliability."
"Solid product, communications and support from a well-known dependable company."
"It's easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco Nexus is modularity. It's like the Swiss Army knife of switches."
"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."
"Its low latency is most valuable. Its performance is good, and it is also very stable."
"The QFX series is a good choice for large data centers, particularly for Spine-Leaf architectures."
"It's really easy to replicate rules. It's the one that I've used; it was CLI-based. You can implement a large set of rules with CLI. You can just copy a script and add additional changes to the source and destination on the part. And so it's easy to do large zone-based rules."
"Juniper QFX Series Switches provide a good platform for all of our hardware and are easy to use."
"The most valuable features are the VxLAN and the EVPN."
"It's a stable solution."
"EVPN-VXLAN feature offers the most benefits."
"The solution is more expensive than other options on the market."
"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."
"The technical support for this solution needs to be improved."
"Technical support could be better."
"They need to understand that when we call them and have an issue, it's our production and sometimes they want us to do repairs that would cause other issues. That's the biggest problem."
"Our only complaint is about the licensing because it can always be a little more cost-effective."
"Ease-of-use and making things more human-readable is most important."
"There is always room for improvement."
"I faced issues with the deployment and upgrade. In the QFX5110 series, features like ISSU and DSSQ should be improved. Upgrades should be smoother."
"The price could be cheaper."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model. It is too high."
"Integrating QFX switches was the first point of challenge."
"There have been some issues sometimes. When you upgrade the device, it doesn't come up. It gets stuck."
Cisco Nexus is ranked 3rd in Data Center Networking with 101 reviews while Juniper QFX Series Switches is ranked 5th in Data Center Networking with 6 reviews. Cisco Nexus is rated 8.4, while Juniper QFX Series Switches is rated 8.8. 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 Juniper QFX Series Switches writes "Offers high port density, including 1/25G/40G/100G and 400 options upto 2 RU and lower power consumption and leverages Broadcom chipsets for enhanced performance". Cisco Nexus is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches, VMware NSX and ExtremeSwitching, whereas Juniper QFX Series Switches is most compared with PTX Series Routers, Juniper MX Series Universal Routing Platforms and Cisco Catalyst Switches. See our Cisco Nexus vs. Juniper QFX Series Switches report.
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