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 online monitoring tool and the configuration of the application with the tool are valuable features."
"Its customer service is good."
"We use Aruba Instant On Switches for general communication, sending files, and going to the internet."
"It is quite easy to maintain from the software point of view."
"It is a very stable solution."
"Instant On Switches' best feature is the 1930, which is stackable."
"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 solution is plug-and-play and auto-configured."
"Cisco Nexus meets all of our requirements."
"The most valuable features of this solution are scalability and reliability."
"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."
"This solution has allowed us to better prepare our network for 10-gigabit."
"Its easy management is most valuable. It is easy to use, easy to manage, stable, and very reliable."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco Nexus is modularity. It's like the Swiss Army knife of switches."
"The redundancy and the vPC are the most valuable features. We can integrate two switches together for file transfers; that is, we can operate two switches as one. This is because the network can be shared via a vPC trunk, particularly for devices that are not critical for redundancy."
"From a data center implementation, with respect to competition from your data, there isn't really a product recovery for the different tests other than Cisco Nexus. For example, if you take Multi-tenancy for the data center, it's something which, I think, only Cisco has. There are some implementation from HP, but I think it's limited there."
"We would like to see more documentation."
"They should extend the marketing and talk about Aruba's success stories throughout the region."
"The solution does not have any console access. For example, if you do not have internet access on your side and you need to configure anything, you should at least have CLI access to do something or manage the solution to put to some IP. It will only work if we have a TSCT on the network."
"Instant On Switches' layer 3 and visibility could be improved."
"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."
"Room for improvement would be if they consolidated administration from multiple locations."
"The pricing is competitive but could be improved."
"In the next release of the solution, I would like to see varying integration between VRF (Virtual Routing and Forwarding) instances so we can integrate BGB into different VRFs in a more organized way. We have some issues with tunnels and VRFs."
"The product lacks options for integration with other market products that would allow us more flexibility."
"Don't discard Cisco Nexus because of the price."
"I would like to see more granularity."
"I am looking for a GUI that goes alongside them and more SD-WAN built to their core switches."
"The flexibility and configuration could be better."
"It would be great if they could make the interface a little more user-friendly, but not trade power off for simplicity."
"I would like to see a central management solution in order to have all of the equipment in one place."
Aruba Instant On Switches is ranked 4th 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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