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 most valuable features are extensions and recorded scalability."
"Current flexibility and the opportunities for future planning and scaling make this product line an ultimate opportunity."
"This solution has given us the ability to use Cisco ISE for security."
"The most valuable feature is the automation that we can do with it."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"The consolidation of all of the layer two ports into one rack is very valuable."
"This solution improves network speed and provides high availability for our users."
"It provides a very flexible connection to a server. When you go into history and the VPC, it provides a very flexible connection from it. Once a server goes down I can instruct it easily. So the network actually keeps quality even if onsite it is down."
"The solution is very stable."
"The additional features I would like to see included in the next release is the ability to integrate routing and switching features."
"There is limited guidance in terms of the use and configuration of Cisco Nexus for specific use cases. The documentation is not comprehensive, and you have to do a lot of online research."
"Cisco Nexus needs to add the SDN capability and lower the price."
"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."
"The pricing must be improved."
"I don't really deal with the pricing but I know that it's not cheap."
"They should make it easier to update the code on it."
"There's been a little bit of bugginess in the code, but that happens."
"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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