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."The stability is fine. I would rate the stability a nine out of ten. Almost a ten on a ten."
"It is easy for deployment and configuration."
"The tool's best part is the commercials. Its pricing is lower compared to other enterprise products. We pitch the product to customers who have budget constraints. Its implementation is plug-and-play."
"The best thing about Aruba Instant On Switches is their cost."
"The solution is plug-and-play and auto-configured."
"Regarding the feature, my clients are currently favoring it because it enables them to switch back to phone functionality."
"The initial setup is simple."
"We use Aruba Instant On Switches for general communication, sending files, and going to the internet."
"I like the fact that they are a well-supported product."
"Cisco Nexus has been very stable. No issues. It's been rock solid. We haven't had any issues with it in the last twelve months."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco Nexus is modularity. It's like the Swiss Army knife of switches."
"The most valuable features of the solution are capacity and scalability."
"This solution provides all of the routing and searching features that we need."
"Cisco Nexus has good overall reliability and configuration options. It is fairly straightforward to access the switching platforms."
"Nexus has improved my organization in the way that it provided enhanced security in a point in the network that was critical."
"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."
"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."
"The price has room for improvement."
"Its scalability needs improvement."
"It is not a very scalable solution."
"You cannot use many VLANs, like VLAN 10, VLAN 20, VLAN 30, and VLAN 100 on Aruba Instant On AP."
"The support needs improvement."
"They should extend the marketing and talk about Aruba's success stories throughout the region."
"Tracking with instant switches needs improvement."
"I would like to see some development into the SAE world where you can virtualize. That would be the only thing I would like to see because I need to start virtualizing my infrastructure gear at some of the other data centers that I have."
"One of the problems we have is that there is no confirmation for when you try to test a system command."
"There are limitations on some of the lower level 9K solutions where you can't do the same things that you would normally be able to do, like for instance the number of static maps that you can configure on it."
"The initial setup was somewhat complex."
"The licensing is very complicated. They should work to simplify it."
"Nothing is perfect."
"In the next release of this solution, I would like to see a focus on backplane deployment, so you can stack more."
"I would like to see better collaboration with other, low-end devices."
Aruba Instant On Switches is ranked 5th in LAN Switching with 22 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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