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 feature of this solution is its reliability."
"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."
"Current flexibility and the opportunities for future planning and scaling make this product line an ultimate opportunity."
"The consolidation of all of the layer two ports into one rack is very valuable."
"The implementation was straightforward and the product is stable."
"We've found their tech support to be excellent, especially in their willingness to resolve issues promptly."
"It gives me an unparalleled ability to build out my environment differently than I would have if I was going with another vendor."
"The most valuable feature is the automation that we can do with it."
"The solution is very stable."
"Technical support could be better."
"There's been a little bit of bugginess in the code, but that happens."
"For a very small subset, Cisco Nexus caused port flapping within the applications."
"In the next release of this solution, I would like to see a focus on backplane deployment, so you can stack more."
"The only thing to improve is to continue to get better."
"Areas in which the solution have room for improvement are the interface, management, and reporting."
"They need to understand that when we call them and have an issue, it's our production and sometimes they want us to do repairs that would cause other issues. That's the biggest problem."
"The initial setup is always complex."
"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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