Cisco Nexus Primary Use Case

Joe Benítez - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at GAD Municipal de Guayaquil

We mainly use them as core network switches. They are configured as a VPC cluster, and we have distribution layer switches attached to both chassis with virtual port channels. Additionally, we have another VDC to connect all the access layer switches for user connectivity.

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TS
Senior Advisor at CIGNA Corporation

We were doing a data center migration. We extended the network from the previous location to the new location. We had about 90% of the applications work seamlessly.

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DeepakYadav1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at Craw Security

I work in a cyber security company. My company handles cyber security products as a part of networking. In the networking part, my company handles routers and switches, along with the configurations related to routing and switching areas, while taking care of network troubleshooting. As a network administrator, the aforementioned areas consist of my main tasks.

My company does not get to utilize the tool for our organization's data center architecture since we don't deal in the area of data centers. The tool is useful in the area of networking.

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Michael GEgziabher - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at Bank of Abyssinia

Currently, our infrastructure relies on hyper-converged technology, in conjunction with Cisco infrastructure, which is essential for our features. Spamify utilizes Cisco infrastructure for its functionality, while Linksys manages connections with other systems. Our servers handle computation, storage, and related technologies, while Cisco takes care of network functions, including routing and switching. We also employ Cisco's firewall for security purposes, both externally and internally. Now, we're in search of structural virtualization technology with security and virtualization capabilities for version 4.16.

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Md. Al Imran Chowdhury - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Analyst at Link3 Technologies

Basically, the Cisco Nexus is an L3 switch, and it offers the capabilities of L2 and L3 switches. The product is used for server farm switches and core switches, where there are big servers and data flow.

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FJ
IT Specialist at E.ON

We use Cisco Nexus on our server-side. We use the product for the access switches layer. We basically take a look at the actual DNA center, however, it will be a time until we will implement the agent from Cisco again.

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RE
IT Manager Network at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

The pros of the Cisco Nexus are the simplified integration with the data center and the end platform before building a data center.

Our primary use case of this solution is for the data centers. 

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Nitin Joshilkar - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Manager at NKGSB BANK

We use the solution for the data center.

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AF
IT specialist at IGFEJ

We use Cisco Nexus in our data center to aggregate all the systems in our enterprise. Everyone in the company uses it indirectly, so we have 72,000 users. 

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MD
Senior Network Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The solution is our aggregation switch. We have all our data services, and users (not end-users) services going through our Nexus. It connects our firewalls and it connects other switches and makes our load balances work. Basically, we were given the switch and then we configured it and we will put it in the network and we maintain it.

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MG
Senior Network Design Engineer at Kent State University

This solution is used in our data center. It is our layer-two switches that connect all of our servers to the data center firewall. Our data center is a little bit different than most in that we're only layer-two in the data center.

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DN
Principal Engineer 2 at Charter Communications, Inc.

Our primary use case for the Cisco Nexus is for a VXLAN environment with some video multicast.

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PR
Information Technology Network Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

I do not know which version we are using. 

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YA
Co-Founder and CEO at PT Eugenea Kreasi Utama

We primarily use the solution as a switch. We use it for our data center.

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JA
Network Engineer at a university with 10,001+ employees

The primary use case for Nexus in our company is for the data center. Everybody that has access to our remote server rooms throughout the campus wants 10G data ports all the way across. 

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KA
Network Engineer at Table Mountain

We use this solution as a core aggregated switch.

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DR
Senior Network Engineer at Halliburton Company

We use this solution for our data center layer two, layer three, infrastructure.

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KM
Service Validation Engineers at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use this solution as an aggregate router in our data center environment so that we can have an extended VLAN port between different data centers, regional and local.

The company has multiple data centers and most of the connections between them are through the 9K switches. We also have a couple of them in our lab for testing. These are used to test throughput, the system reliability, accuracy, and scalability for how many VLAN extenders we can have in our infrastructure.

We are using Spine-and-Leaf architecture for our data centers.

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OM
Senior System Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We primarily use the Nexus Series, that's the 7000 Series, as a core switch. We have other 10-gauge switches to work as a server switch.

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DM
Senior Network Engineer at Northrop Grumman

The product is basically used for our entire phone system.

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RM
Solutions Architect at ABS Technology

Our primary use case for the Cisco Nexus solution is to provide data center access for our customers. This includes providing servers, storage, and interconnecting those to the rest of the network.

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JV
Network Director at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

We use this solution in our data center core. 

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PP
Network Engineer at a government with 11-50 employees

We use the 9000s in a series of different things in both the data center and even in the LAN (Local Area Network). Mainly we just use the products for the management of all the traffic — nothing really crazy. Being in the government, we can't use ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure) and certain other technologies yet. The 9000s are deployed for high-end layer two and layer three switching capabilities.

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TF
Leader of Network Engineering at MVP Health Care

We are using this solution in the redesign of our data center network. Specifically, to provide an aggregation point for our data center services.

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Loris Signoracci - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at Itworks srl

We use this solution mainly for the data center and or a yacht. They were used as core switches on a three-layer network.

They were the core level for a 90-meter yacht. They were connected with a fiber single-mode backbone.

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Itsikc BenTolila - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder & CEO at Malam-Team

I use the solution in the customer's companies. I have used many different version of the solution. 

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ZS
Sr. Data Center Network Engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

We use it for data center connectivity and we integrate it with ACI. 

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RS
Network Engineer at American Honda Motor

Our primary use case for Cisco Nexus is the data center. We use it for all of our enterprise servers, for our phone systems, and other things along those lines.

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AS
Network Coordinator at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We got it for its port density. Our primary use case of this solution is so we can connect all of our other departments and agencies. It'll be the main connection to our core routers. I don't work directly on it, I work with the router that connects to it. 

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TP
Senior Network Engineer at Advanced Drainage Systems

This solution manages our data center and is our core infrastructure switch. All of our firewalls and application servers terminate into the 5K.

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PH
Network Architect at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

This solution is used as the core and access switches in our largest data center. We have several of them that make up our 40-gigabit uplink.

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JitendraPrasad - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT Infrastructure Solutions Engineer at Datec (Fiji) Limited

We use Cisco Nexus especially when we have bigger datacenter projects for organizations such as banks where the operations of all subsidiaries and sister companies are controlled from the head office.

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AL
Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

We use this solution for many purposes. For example, to automate Nexus switches and to view the modern architecture network, such as SDN.

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TG
CEO at a construction company with 11-50 employees

We use Cisco Nexus for the switches. It's a switch product, and I think we have 350 users on our network.

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JC
Network Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The primary use case is for Data Center switches.

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RM
Sr Network Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are using the Cisco Nexus for switching. We use the product for LAN switching, overall switching, and for the data center.

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MP
Network Engineer at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mostly what we use Cisco Nexus for is in our access layer and distribution networks on our campus.

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HK
CTO at Mechkar

I use Cisco Nexus for the private cloud.

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DB
Consultant at a mining and metals company with 201-500 employees

For the 9300 switches, we use them specifically for IPv6 routing in this particular instance, although there are plans to deploy them in a more general variety of switch-type use cases.

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MM
Network Engineer at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our primary use case for the Cisco Nexus solution is for our core. We have Nexus 9000 and also Catalyst 9000 floor switches.

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JM
Network Manager at a transportation company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We are using it for the data center. We have its latest version.

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CB
Network Administrator at St Ambrose University

Our primary use case for the Cisco Nexus solution is as a core fiber switch.

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JG
Sr Manager of Network and Telephony at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

The primary use case is for the core network infrastructure of our data centers. We use Nexus and the FEX line of products to interconnect all of the server infrastructure, as well as external connections that come in from our outside vendors. 

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AS
InfoTech Specialist at California Department of Corrections

This solution is used as a switch in our data center.

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HM
CIO at Masriacard

In my previous company, we relied on this solution as a part of the data center core switch. Everything inside the data center was connected through this unit.

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RY
Practice Lead - Data Center Networking at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I am an engineer and work primarily with our data center network and data center security. The Nexus switch is a data center switch and I have a lot of recent experience with it. My company is a solution provider and this is one of the products that we sell to our clients.

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TK
Network Engineer at Archer Daniels Midland

Our primary use for this solution is as headend switches at remote sites.

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CL
Sr Network Engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use this solution for our new data center.

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JR
Infrastructure Engineer at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We use this solution for our data center switches.

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WL
Network Adminstrator at a government with 501-1,000 employees

We use this solution as the fabric switches for our VMware environment.

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NC
Network Engineer at solutions4networks

Our primary use case for the Cisco Nexus solution is network connectivity.

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MO
Network Engineer at Tampa General Hospital

We use Cisco Nexus for data center requirements and interconnectivity. 

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FR
Digital Transformation at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use the solution in a data center farm.

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Hesham Rashed - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at Technology Pro Egypt

The Cisco Nexus switches are the best and most reliable solution for us in my previous company, which was a telecom service provider. We used cisco modular switches for our heavy services as part of our GSM network as it requires heavy processing and highest performance.

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JW
Network Engineer Principal

Our primary use case of this solution is for our data center environment.

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AD
Network Engineer at a university with 10,001+ employees

This solution is the backbone of our data center.

We have multiple tenants built on it, in a network-centric design. We have our Dev QA tenant, user acceptance tenant, production tenant, our DMZ, and then our user edge where everything comes in and goes out. We have firewalls in between all of the tenants, and we use ACI to microsegment between the networks, within the tenants. All of the intra-tenant traffic goes through the firewalls.

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ManagerOedd5 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of Network Engineering at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

We use this solution in our data center.

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DA
Pre-Sales Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We have a lot of customers that we implement Nexus platforms for.

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FD
CTIO at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The primary use case is for a secure and reliable connection to our servers. We use Nexus to connect to servers with a large capacity and high throughput. The solution has high availability which is very important for us, and Nexus provides that.

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SA
Administrator at a security firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our primary use case for Cisco Nexus is for our data center and for collaboration with other switches.

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SB
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We use Nexus primarily for our data centers.

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AS
Unified Network Architect at Barry-Wehmiller

This solution is the backbone of our data center. It is the fabric to our UCS blade servers.

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GG
Network Engineer at Google

We use this solution for the access layer of our network.

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NR
Network Technician at a individual & family service with 10,001+ employees

My primary use for this solution is bridging servers and storage arrays and networks across multiple domains.

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WG
Network Analyst at Marion County

We use this solution in our data centers.

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RC
Internetwork Solution Engineer at OPLK

We primarily use this solution for data centers in places like high schools or businesses that support other businesses.

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AR
Network Engineer at SRPMIC

Our primary use for the Cisco Nexus is the data center, core routing, switching, etc.

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HC
Network Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use this solution for our networking.

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YM
Chief Technology Officer at Interlink Engineering Pvt Ltd

The primary uses of this solution are for managing email servers, EIP modules, and file servers.

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AD
Senior Voice Network Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use the Cisco Nexus as our primary solution for the data center.

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BP
Director at Wipro Technologies

We primarily use this product for campaign management.

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JA
Unified Communications Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

The entirety of our network infrastructure is Cisco-based, and our voice infrastructure comes across that as well. I handle the Unified Communications. 

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KH
IT Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our primary use for Cisco Nexus is for storage.

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HK
Product Manager - Networking & Security at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Our primary use case of this solution is to provide Nexus 9000 in different models for the user on top of our switches or as core switches. It depends on the design and the customer's needs.

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PW
CTO at a tech services company

Our primary use for this solution is enterprise networking.

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FM
IT Director at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our primary use case is for our core network.

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RC
Tech Architect at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

We use Cisco Nexus primarily to check the health of our links. We use it to make sure if our links are good or not. It really helps with troubleshooting.

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AJ
Network Admin at a hospitality company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Our primary use case for Cisco Nexus is for an internet data center.

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JS
Network Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

This solution provides all of the routing and searching features that we need. We use it for internal use, rather than resell it to our customers.

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YS
Lead Presales at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

We are using the Cisco Nexus as our core switch for our main backbone.

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CL
Network Analyst at Govt of Canada

Our primary use case for Cisco Nexus is for MACsec encryption.

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TM
Network Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Our primary use case is for multitenant switching in our data centers for our edge equipment to go in between our firewalls and out to the internet.

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TN
Network Services Manager at Allen Systems Group

Our primary use case for the Cisco Nexus solution is for the data center.

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TS
Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our main use of Cisco Nexus is as our data center core switch.

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RW
Network Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our primary use case for the Cisco Nexus solution is for our data center switches. It's our core switch that we use everywhere.

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RS
Network Analyst at a marketing services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

The Cisco Nexus is the core of our network, and I am responsible for troubleshooting the device.

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AA
Principle Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use this solution in our data center.

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