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Cisco Nexus pros and cons

Vendor: Cisco
4.2 out of 5
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Cisco Nexus Pros review quotes

DA
Jun 19, 2019
They are very high-performance switches and they are made for lossless data, so they're a good play in the customer environment.
RE
Jun 19, 2019
This product has improved the way our organization functions in the way that the rack-based design allowed us to eliminate chassis-based designs. The chassis design is more complicated to manage and maintain in field operations.
Joe Benítez - PeerSpot reviewer
May 24, 2023
The in-service software upgrade (ISSU) feature is quite valuable.
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PH
Jun 19, 2019
It gives me an unparalleled ability to build out my environment differently than I would have if I was going with another vendor.
PP
Jun 19, 2019
Current flexibility and the opportunities for future planning and scaling make this product line an ultimate opportunity.
MG
Jun 19, 2019
We leverage Cisco DCNM a lot, which allows us to automate.
MP
Jun 19, 2019
The most valuable feature of this solution is stability. We have a pretty large campus.
TF
Jun 19, 2019
The biggest benefit to this solution is a high port density with high bandwidth.
AD
Jun 19, 2019
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.
DB
Jun 19, 2019
The scalability of the solution is well beyond anything I would ever need.
 

Cisco Nexus Cons review quotes

DA
Jun 19, 2019
There is no feature parity between the 9K and the 5K or 7K, which means that it is harder to position the 9K to future proof them.
RE
Jun 19, 2019
I would like to see the integration of the products into something where it's seamless where an engineer never touches the switch again, never does CLI and you move to an application based network organization.
Joe Benítez - PeerSpot reviewer
May 24, 2023
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.
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PH
Jun 19, 2019
I would like to see Duo directly integrated with the Nexus hardware, instead of it being through the proxies, like how Duo works today.
PP
Jun 19, 2019
Multi contexts would be nice to have to separate different tenants logically and securely.
MG
Jun 19, 2019
Our only complaint is about the licensing because it can always be a little more cost-effective.
MP
Jun 19, 2019
With some of the products we had before, we had a little more downtime than we would like.
TF
Jun 19, 2019
There are limitations on some of the lower level 9K solutions where you can't do the same things that you would normally be able to do, like for instance the number of static maps that you can configure on it.
AD
Jun 19, 2019
It would be great if they could make the interface a little more user-friendly, but not trade power off for simplicity.
DB
Jun 19, 2019
There's a couple of really bad incidents lately. Probably luck of the draw.