Cisco Nexus Scalability
The scalability features are very useful. Although our chassis only has four slots, we have filled both the providers and the Broadline card slots. So, in terms of viewing it that way, we cannot scale much because those chassis are fully occupied. But if we had a larger one, like a six-slot chassis, we would have more capability to scale.
Only the technology administrator is using the solution.
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Tqe Sylverne
Senior Advisor at CIGNA Corporation
The scalability of Cisco Nexus is excellent.
View full review »The scalability of Cisco Nexus has totally changed because of Cisco SD-WAN. Cisco Nexus provides services via the cloud because of Cisco SD-WAN. For example, if I start a new company, I need networking devices as an architect. In my company, since the prices paid for networking devices are not affordable, I am checking out Cisco Nexus on the cloud, which is affordable. The aforementioned aspects have caused the working infrastructure to totally change day by day, prompting users to move to the cloud.
My company deals with 4,00,000 customers of the product, and we also provide services related to the internet and product-related subscription models for a month or three, depending on the security needs of clients. My company is totally dependent on the cyber security business. Only in part does my company take care of areas related to networking and troubleshooting.
The product's scalability feature is okay. When it comes to scalability, the market competition is high due to products from Palo Alto, Check Point, Aruba, Apache, and Fortinet FortiGate. There is not much need for people to be dependent on Cisco Catalyst since there are many options available in the market that are cheaper compared to Cisco.
My company deals with 4,00,000 customers who use the solution.
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I would rate the scalability a seven out of ten.
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Yucheol Seo
IT Manager at DN Solutions
The tool is scalable and we have 7000 users for it.
View full review »The best-suited environment for the Cisco Nexus is not a small office, it is used mainly for enterprise networks. It provides more throughput and has good capabilities. My customers in the data center are happy with the solution.
We have a number of clients using this solution.
View full review »The scalability offered by the product is good since it is possible to scale the devices.
Cisco Nexus is a product that is used by only a few people in my company. The tool can handle our company's application data all over the country using the mobile application of Cisco Nexus. In our company, the connectivity part involving all our employees and ERP details is handled through Cisco Nexus. I can't be specific about the number of users who use Cisco Nexus. For management purposes, my company maintains Cisco Nexus for a few people, and it is maintained by two or three people from our team who are also involved with its configuration part.
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Florin Jalencu
IT Specialist at E.ON
The solution can scale. We use it for a rather large organization.
We have just over 4,000 employees and around 20,000 active ports. Our operation is big enough that it spreads over half of Romania.
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reviewer1122879
IT Manager Network at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
The scalability is fine.
View full review »We have two to three users. I rate the tool’s scalability an eight out of ten.
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Avelino Fernandes
IT specialist at IGFEJ
Cisco Nexus is scalable.
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reviewer1589751
Senior Network Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
The solution can scale.
The product provides services for thousands of our customers. If we look at Nexus and the media portals, then we've got millions of customers that will use the end service. That all goes through the Nexus F5.
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SeniorNe0813
Senior Network Design Engineer at Kent State University
The scalability of this solution is great. We couldn't afford to buy the ASIC solution, so we bought the Nexus 9Ks and put them in a Spine-and-Leaf topology. We then made each of the leaves their own vPC peers as well, so it allows us to have redundancy between servers.
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Dan Newman
Principal Engineer 2 at Charter Communications, Inc.
We've not had a scale-out yet. Cisco Nexus looks very valuable. We're starting to deploy them in other environments as well.
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reviewer1664805
Information Technology Network Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
I feel the solution to be sufficiently scalable.
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Yudi Aritonang
Co-Founder and CEO at PT Eugenea Kreasi Utama
The solution is very easy to scale out. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so.
View full review »JA
NetworkEcce9
Network Engineer at a university with 10,001+ employees
The scalability of Cisco Nexus is wonderful. It supports the whole data centers. We have no issues with scalability.
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Kervin Aterrado
Network Engineer at Table Mountain
Scaling this product is on the pricey side. If you're a top-end enterprise company then you can scale it. You can stack it, or build a solution with redundancy.
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Danish Rizvi
Senior Network Engineer at Halliburton Company
The scalability of this solution is better than that of the traditional models. You can always add more 2k switches to a 5k underlying chassis and increase the number of ports without any other configuration. There is no additional configuration required for FEX ports.
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Khalid Mustafa
Service Validation Engineers at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our environment is very large. We have multiple regional and national data centers, where data is sent between them.
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Omer Mohammed
Senior System Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is very scalable. All you have to do when you scale is to follow the right best practices and you can scale without any issue.
We use it for a bank in Sudan, so there can sometimes be sizeable transactions.
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SeniorNe798f
Senior Network Engineer at Northrop Grumman
The scalability of the solution is very good. The only thing I don't like is that there's an 80-millisecond requirement between cluster servers. I have to have multiple clusters around the world: I can't just have one giant cluster. There are ways around that requirement, but I wish they could figure it out.
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Ricardo Mancilla
Solutions Architect at ABS Technology
The scalability of this solution is very good. We had different options for physical form factors. It does work for what we need on our enterprise network.
We have a 1GB connection to a data center. Then we upgraded a server. We can quickly get more scalability from the switch by migrating to 10GB or even 25GB connections.
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NetworkDd05b
Network Director at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
The scalability of this solution meets the needs that we have. The density of it is a lot higher than the 7Ks. It's good for us from that perspective.
I could take two 7Ks that are 16-chassis, get it down into eight and have twice as much throughput.
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NetworkE9b11
Network Engineer at a government with 11-50 employees
The scalability of the product is great. We buy way above what we really need. So when it comes to density, throughput, feature sets, software, etcetera, we find out what we need and we can just upgrade it. That approach has made things really good. We look forward to tapping into the ability to start automating things through Python and Linux customizations.
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LeaderOf432e
Leader of Network Engineering at MVP Health Care
The 9K series is very scalable because you have multiple different PIDs that allow you to put them where you want them. They can be on the core, your access, or your aggregational layer. You can do a lot of different things with them. They're a very scalable switching solution.
View full review »I have found the scalability good with this product.
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Zaki Shah
Sr. Data Center Network Engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Scalability is good.
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Roger Sherman
Network Engineer at American Honda Motor
I don't have experience with the scalability aspect of it. In our server farms, we haven't added any since install and it's done its job.
From where we're at, if we needed to add more effects to Cisco Nexus, we could. I don't see any issues with doing that.
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NetworkCaac9
Network Coordinator at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
We haven't surpassed the scalability at this point.
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Timothy Patrick
Senior Network Engineer at Advanced Drainage Systems
The scalability of this solution is limited. You can only add so much hardware capacity to them, and because it's hardware based, you can't get the new features sets without putting new switches in.
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reviewer1122534
Network Architect at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We have not had an opportunity to scale this solution, but it seems very scalable. The VPC, virtual port channels, and the virtual domains, together, allow you to scale endlessly. I have never seen any problems with them.
View full review »In terms of scalability, Cisco Nexus has limitations because you have to configure another vPC domain if you want to extend it.
We have three or four engineers within our company who are experienced at configuring Cisco Nexus, and we have several large corporate clients who use it as well.
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manager813261
Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
This solution is very scalable because of the architecture. We have approximately 400 users using this solution in my organization.
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reviewer1480044
CEO at a construction company with 11-50 employees
Cisco Nexus is a scalable product.
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Jon Cole
Network Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's feature-rich, and they are expandable.
We have approximately a thousand users.
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SrNetwordef0
Sr Network Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Scalability depends on when there's no hardware available. We just add another rack and another switch. From an overall perspective, it's a very good product
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NetworkE2c48
Network Engineer at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Scalability for us is great. We can use Cisco Nexus for what we need it to do. In the future, I don't see any obstacles this would create. It works great.
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NGFW677
IT Specialist at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
It has been very scalable, from what we've seen.
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Matt Bright
Architect at CenturyLink
The scalability of this solution is ok. Everything can be a little bit better on scalability, but it does an ok job.
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Husam Kabaha
CTO at Mechkar
Cisco Nexus is scalable.
We have 2,000 to 3,000 people in our organization who are using this solution.
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Consulta4de9
Consultant at a mining and metals company with 201-500 employees
The scalability of the solution is well beyond anything I would ever need. Somewhere in the neighborhood of maybe 50,000 to 60,000 nodes is our requirement, so not huge from the Cisco perspective.
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NetworkE1a81
Network Engineer at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
The Cisco Nexus platform is very scalable with the modular design.
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reviewer1193787
Network Manager at a transportation company with 5,001-10,000 employees
It is a really good scalable product. Currently, we have about 50 users. We don't have any plans to increase its usage.
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Cody Boelens
Network Administrator at St Ambrose University
It scales to just about any use that we needed to throw at it. It's very accommodating.
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SrManage17d3
Sr Manager of Network and Telephony at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
The scalability seems pretty solid. We're not a very large company, so we don't max out any of the limitations of the solution.
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CIOdf97
CIO at Masriacard
This solution is quite scalable, although this product comes in different families including an enterprise-level version and a mid-level version. Scalability depends on how the switch has been configured and the technical specifications that are related to it.
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Atul Torne
Sr. Backbone Architect at NTT Global Networks Incorporated
The solution is scalable.
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reviewer1481295
Practice Lead - Data Center Networking at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The spine-and-leaf architecture is very scalable. If you need more ports to plug servers in, you add more leaves. If you need more throughput then you add more spines.
All of the switches at the top are the spine, and those plug into those are the leaves, and then the servers plug into the leaves. It's highly scalable, because if you have more servers then just purchase two more switches. If you need more throughput and better performance, then you just purchase two switches for the spine. You can continue to scale out the model very simply.
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Tyler Kongs
Network Engineer at Archer Daniels Midland
Scalability with this solution is easy.
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SrNetwor9862
Sr Network Engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
I think that it scales well. For what we use it for, it has been great. Right now, we have a ten-gig network, but it can scale up to forty-gig, which is really good.
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Infrastr6916
Infrastructure Engineer at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I'd say that this solution is very scalable.
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NetworkA4cd8
Network Adminstrator at a government with 501-1,000 employees
We have not had any issues in terms of scalability. If we want to expand then we just have to pay to have additional ports enabled.
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Nate Cielieska
Network Engineer at solutions4networks
It is very scalable.
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Michael Ozorowsky
Network Engineer at Tampa General Hospital
It's scalable.
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reviewer1542720
Digital Transformation at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is scalable.
View full review »It is very scalable. We had around 7,000 users in our company & more than 26 million GSM customers.
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NetworkEd74c
Network Engineer Principal
It's very scalable. You can go up or down in size as much as you want.
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Andy Deshmukh
Network Engineer at a university with 10,001+ employees
In terms of scalability, we haven't grown the deployment, yet, because we're nowhere near capacity. There is a lot of scalability in terms of what we could use, although it's a matter of what we actually need. It seems very scalable, but we just haven't had the need to scale up yet.
View full review »The scalability of this solution is great.
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PreSales7bd0
Pre-Sales Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I think that these units are made to scale, but it depends on how they're deployed. If they're deployed within an ACI environment and that's the customer's expectation, they work fine.
If they're deployed, say, a 9500 model in a non-ACI role, a traditional data center switching role, and the customer decides that they want a virtual device context then we could not support it in that scenario. In this particular case, it wouldn't really scale. That is why it's tough sometimes, in a non-ACI environment, to implement the 9K.
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Ctio21c2
CTIO at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
This solution scales a lot, easily. The 7000s have a huge capacity. The scalability will depend on the model you have, but the 7000s we have are very versatile. We have a lot of ports installed already and we can still add more.
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reviewer953937
Sr. Principal Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
We want to extend out to other regions, which is very easy to achieve if compared to the typical traditional legacy layer 2 switch, layer 3 routing approach.
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Scott Black
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
They're pretty scalable.
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Andrew Svolopoulos
Unified Network Architect at Barry-Wehmiller
I would say that to make this solution more scalable, they need to provide a backplane as they do on a lot of their other network infrastructure equipment.
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NetworkE88b3
Network Engineer at Google
Scalability is good enough for now, and not really an issue for us.
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NetworkT7b7a
Network Technician at a individual & family service with 10,001+ employees
This solution has great scalability.
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Wendy Guest
Network Analyst at Marion County
This is a very scalable solution.
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Roberto Castillo
Internetwork Solution Engineer at OPLK
This solution is very scalable.
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NetworkE78dd
Network Engineer at SRPMIC
Cisco Nexus is very scalable. If you have money to buy more cards, then you get the added features. As long as you have a lot of money.
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NetworkE1898
Network Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
This solution is definitely scalable.
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Yusuf Mian
Chief Technology Officer at Interlink Engineering Pvt Ltd
Scalability needs improvement.
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SeniorVo338e
Senior Voice Network Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The scalability of the solution is huge. It's a big box.
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Bala Panchanathan
Director at Wipro Technologies
For the products we are currently using there is still a lot more to be done to allow integration of other market products.
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ProductMf527
Product Manager - Networking & Security at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Nexus has good scalability features. It provides the customer's needs.
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CTOb1a5
CTO at a tech services company
The scalability of this solution is very good.
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ITDirect96f6
IT Director at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's scalable.
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TechArch0f90
Tech Architect at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
It scales very well.
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NetworkA401c
Network Admin at a hospitality company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I don't see any issues with the scalability of Cisco Nexus.
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NetworkE492f
Network Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
I think that this solution scales well.
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reviewer938022
Lead Presales at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
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Charles Lacasse
Network Analyst at Govt of Canada
Cisco Nexus is very scalable.
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NetworkEf82e
Network Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The scalability of Cisco Nexus is good. We've had them for the entire lifetime. We've never had to upgrade them yet.
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Todd Neiert
Network Services Manager at Allen Systems Group
The scalability of the Cisco Nexus is very high.
View full review »Scalability goes in accordance with money spent.
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Security6161
Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is easily scalable.
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NetworkEe9dd
Network Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Cisco Nexus is very scalable.
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NetworkA9d42
Network Analyst at a marketing services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
This solution is very scalable, and we haven't had any issues at all.
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NetworkSe124
Network Security Administration at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
In terms of scalability, this solution is very good.
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April 2024
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