We performed a comparison between Cisco FabricPath 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."Cisco FabricPath is highly beneficial for network performance and relatively easy to implement. It also offers straightforward monitoring capabilities."
"Additional bandwidth is available when needed."
"FabricPath's best features are routing, OSPS, ethernet, and performance."
"I like the 10G ports and the modular uplink port."
"Cisco is the market leader in this space and it is a product that I recommend."
"The most valuable feature is the central management where the customer can receive all the alerts."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to migrate VMs between data centers."
"It's very stable."
"They are very high-performance switches and they are made for lossless data, so they're a good play in the customer environment."
"We are a Cisco shop. This solution is better compared to other options."
"The most valuable feature of the 7700 series is probably the multi-context subset VRS, which lets you use multi-VRS, multi-context, and also VPC setup, where you have two logical devices that are still separate in terms of management planes, but have shared, virtual core channels."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is stability. We have a pretty large campus."
"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."
"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."
"Cisco Nexus is very safe and stable. I've been here 8 months. We have some devices that have been out for 11 years."
"Cisco Nexus has improved the way our organization functions through the troubleshooting. We had issues where we've seen our links saturated. We were able to determine what was being processed on the link."
"I would like one management console to control the network."
"The solution should offer better reporting."
"The product lacks AI...The initial setup of Cisco FabricPath was a bit complex."
"While Cisco products are excellent, the problem is the cost. Cisco products are product, Cisco products are very expensive. I rate Cisco FabricPath three out of 10 for affordability."
"The solution is costly."
"Improvements could be made on specific technical issues such as implementation."
"Lack of security features for which we need to use another solution."
"Layer 3 does not have higher availability."
"The licensing is very complicated. They should work to simplify it."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing. The solution is expensive. Compared to other vendors, it's costly for similar products."
"We have encountered some software bugs."
"Nexus is a costly solution."
"In the Nexus 3500, you can't do per-port Jumbo frames, so you have to enable it as a global configuration."
"Cisco Nexus is just a platform. You just set it up, give it an IP, and then start configuring it. But there are a million features to configure."
"There is always room for improvement."
Cisco FabricPath is ranked 7th in LAN Switching with 23 reviews while Cisco Nexus is ranked 6th in LAN Switching with 101 reviews. Cisco FabricPath is rated 8.2, while Cisco Nexus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco FabricPath writes "Makes multi-layer networking easy and increases network efficiency". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Nexus writes " Offer high performance capabilities and enables efficient data transmission and processing". Cisco FabricPath is most compared with Juniper QFabric, whereas Cisco Nexus is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Juniper QFX Series Switches, Arista Networks Platform and Dell PowerConnect Switches. See our Cisco FabricPath vs. Cisco Nexus report.
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