We performed a comparison between Arista Campus 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."The feature sets are pretty cool. They've got almost everything that the competition offers."
"The CloudVision Portal allows us to centrally manage all of our Arista products."
"QoS is the most valuable feature because our clients work with VOIP and Critical applications."
"The biggest benefit to this solution is a high port density with high bandwidth."
"This product has improved the way our organization functions through the ability to do things in a maintenance window while allowing other teams to continue to work."
"The most valuable features of this solution are scalability and throughput."
"The in-service software upgrade (ISSU) feature is quite valuable."
"Current flexibility and the opportunities for future planning and scaling make this product line an ultimate opportunity."
"It's easy to use, and the performance is great."
"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 interface is as user-friendly as you can make it."
"I would like to see a version available with eight or sixteen ports."
"It would be ideal if the solution was less expensive."
"One of the issues that we have been faced with here in Brazil is that we don't have any list times for delivery."
"The pricing must be improved."
"I would love to see Active/Active FEX connectivity, which is enhanced vPC, where we could also do a vPC from a server in that type of configuration."
"There is always room for improvement."
"If we could get some more automation integrated into it, it would make it easier."
"The initial setup was somewhat complex."
"In the next release of this solution, I would like to see a focus on backplane deployment, so you can stack more."
"The code quality for this solution has gotten worse and needs improvement."
"The installation process lasted too long, taking 16 to 24 hours for full completion."
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Arista Campus LAN Switches is ranked 13th in LAN Switching while Cisco Nexus is ranked 6th in LAN Switching with 101 reviews. Arista Campus LAN Switches is rated 8.8, while Cisco Nexus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Arista Campus LAN Switches writes "Stable, has a lot of uplink interfaces, and several can be centralized managed through a single portal". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Nexus writes " Offer high performance capabilities and enables efficient data transmission and processing". Arista Campus LAN Switches is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches and Cisco FabricPath, whereas Cisco Nexus is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Juniper QFX Series Switches, Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches and VMware NSX. See our Arista Campus LAN Switches vs. Cisco Nexus report.
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