We performed a comparison between Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN 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."OmniSwitch LAN Switches' performance is very good."
"With Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches everything comes from one vendor. It operates very smoothly."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of configuration."
"I rate the technical support an eight or a nine out of ten. So far, they've been very professional and helpful, especially when we need to raise a case for any issue."
"These OmniSwitches are very manageable and easy to configure."
"One of the main advantages of the solution is that the configuration is straightforward, offering various configuration options through CLI or web interfaces. I'm satisfied with the customer service and support. The solution is good and people should know about it."
"Cisco Nexus has good overall reliability and configuration options. It is fairly straightforward to access the switching platforms."
"The setup was very easy, but managing it in operations was very complex."
"This is a very stable solution."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"The solution is stable."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The ability to tenant-out the traffic and segment it, without having to get into separate physical hardware or trying to figure out VDCs manually, has been really powerful and extremely useful for us."
"It's easy to use, and the performance is great."
"A customer expressed dissatisfaction with the color of the switches, preferring black over the current color, which is close to white. While the color is not a personal concern, my earlier preference was for all products to be extendable in one large stack since some equipment limits stacking to four elements instead of eight."
"There are some issues with the network firmware being deleted from the switches."
"I would like to see better third-party integration with third-party systems."
"n general, the way the product is put together is not well done."
"There is no OEM support in India so RMAs need to be sent to France, which takes a long time if the hardware is faulty."
"Don't discard Cisco Nexus because of the price."
"Stability is not really up to the mark."
"One of the biggest challenges, which I see is that there's a constant evolution in the product. For example, our configuration is based on what is known as traditional data center implementation. Today there is the ACI deployment and to implement, to migrate from one technology to another, that's challenging both from a configuration perspective and also from a cost perspective."
"We have encountered some software bugs."
"There's been a little bit of bugginess in the code, but that happens."
"I feel that this solution should be more flexible and scalable."
"There's a couple of really bad incidents lately. Probably luck of the draw."
"The initial setup was pretty complex, mostly because of our environment, having to do multi-context. That's where you have a lot of different logical routes that are in one physical device, and it can get kind of complex trying to think about how to set all that up. You really have to whiteboard it out a lot."
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Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches is ranked 9th in LAN Switching with 6 reviews while Cisco Nexus is ranked 6th in LAN Switching with 99 reviews. Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches is rated 8.6, while Cisco Nexus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches writes "With a good technical support in place, there needs to be an improvement in the way the tool is put together". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Nexus writes " Offer high performance capabilities and enables efficient data transmission and processing". Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches and HPE ProCurve, whereas Cisco Nexus is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Juniper QFX Series Switches, Arista Networks Platform and Dell PowerConnect Switches. See our Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches vs. Cisco Nexus report.
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