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 solution is plug-and-play and auto-configured."
"We use Aruba Instant On Switches for general communication, sending files, and going to the internet."
"The dashboard for clients is very nice."
"Aruba's management solutions, like Aruba Central are valuable."
"The solution provides GUI control, making it particularly suitable for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and small office/home office (SOHO) networks."
"Setup is easy."
"It is quite easy to maintain from the software point of view."
"Regarding the feature, my clients are currently favoring it because it enables them to switch back to phone functionality."
"The most valuable features are the solution is robust, you are able to use it for fabric architecture as well as SPAN on exit with the controller."
"The scalability of the solution is well beyond anything I would ever need."
"I like the fact that they are a well-supported product."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its reliability."
"Technical support has been very, very helpful and they offer good SLAs."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The solution is very expensive. Currently, we pay an yearly licensing cost. I rate the pricing a nine out of ten."
"Solid product, communications and support from a well-known dependable company."
"Some customers have made complaints about Aruba Instant On Switches' stability."
"We are interested in acquiring a firewall that provides a comprehensive solution. In other words, we're seeking a firewall that encompasses multiple aspects, such as exceptional switches and active phone functionalities."
"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 product must be integrated with Aruba Central for better management."
"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."
"The price has room for improvement."
"Instant On Switches' layer 3 and visibility could be improved."
"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."
"The product could be updated more frequently for other phone model support."
"Currently, the switches don't behave like the 4500 switches in terms of acting as one physical chassis. So the multi-chassis PortChannel feature is not applicable in this case. Nevertheless, virtual port-channel feature covers this."
"The additional features I would like to see included in the next release is the ability to integrate routing and switching features."
"Cisco Nexus needs to add the SDN capability and lower the price."
"I would like to see better monitoring actions supported in the next release of this solution."
"They should make it easier to update the code on it."
"In the Nexus 3500, you can't do per-port Jumbo frames, so you have to enable it as a global configuration."
Aruba Instant On Switches is ranked 5th 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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