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."This solution has given us the ability to use Cisco ISE for security."
"The most valuable features of the solution are capacity and scalability."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its stability."
"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."
"We used older versions of Cisco Cloud. The reason why we switched was just adapting with the times."
"Its low latency is most valuable. Its performance is good, and it is also very stable."
"We have a much more stable network now using the Cisco Nexus."
"It has improved our organization because we have aggregated ports, we're able to put multiple agencies on the multiple different interfaces that we have going there. We're able to separate them out with the use of VLANs and whatnot."
"The solution is very stable."
"We lag on the configuration. The changes make a difference in troubleshooting."
"I would like to see better monitoring actions supported in the next release of this solution."
"Standardization across iOS and Nexus operating systems would be an improvement."
"The installation process lasted too long, taking 16 to 24 hours for full completion."
"Ease-of-use and making things more human-readable is most important."
"They should make it easier to update the code on it."
"If I call during a high volume, I might get someone that just doesn't know as much or it takes a little bit of time and they put us on hold more. Otherwise, it's good."
"They could improve on having different technologies between product models."
"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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