Cisco Nexus Scalability

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

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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TS
Senior Advisor at CIGNA Corporation

The scalability of Cisco Nexus is excellent.

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DeepakYadav1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at Craw Security

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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Cisco Nexus
April 2024
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Michael GEgziabher - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at Bank of Abyssinia

I would rate the scalability a seven out of ten. 

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YS
IT Manager at DN Solutions

The tool is scalable and we have 7000 users for it. 

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JawaidIqbal - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network/Security/collaboration Engineer at Abdulla Fouad Group

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.

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

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

The scalability is fine. 

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Nitin Joshilkar - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Manager at NKGSB BANK

We have two to three users. I rate the tool’s scalability an eight out of ten.

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AF
IT specialist at IGFEJ

Cisco Nexus is scalable. 

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

I feel the solution to be sufficiently scalable. 

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YA
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.

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JA
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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KA
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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DR
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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KM
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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OM
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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DM
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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RM
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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JV
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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PP
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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TF
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.

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

I have found the scalability good with this product.

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

Scalability is good. 

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

We haven't surpassed the scalability at this point. 

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TP
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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PH
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.

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

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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AL
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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TG
CEO at a construction company with 11-50 employees

Cisco Nexus is a scalable product.

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JC
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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RM
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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MP
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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DS
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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MB
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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HK
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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DB
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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MM
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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JM
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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CB
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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JG
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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HM
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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AT
Sr. Backbone Architect at NTT Global Networks Incorporated

The solution is scalable.

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RY
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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TK
Network Engineer at Archer Daniels Midland

Scalability with this solution is easy.

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CL
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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JR
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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WL
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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NC
Network Engineer at solutions4networks

It is very scalable.

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MO
Network Engineer at Tampa General Hospital

It's scalable.

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

The solution is scalable.

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Hesham Rashed - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at Technology Pro Egypt

It is very scalable. We had around 7,000 users in our company & more than 26 million GSM customers.

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JW
Network Engineer Principal

It's very scalable. You can go up or down in size as much as you want. 

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AD
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.

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

The scalability of this solution is great.

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

They're pretty scalable.

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AS
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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GG
Network Engineer at Google

Scalability is good enough for now, and not really an issue for us.

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

This solution has great scalability.

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WG
Network Analyst at Marion County

This is a very scalable solution.

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RC
Internetwork Solution Engineer at OPLK

This solution is very scalable.

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

This solution is definitely scalable.

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YM
Chief Technology Officer at Interlink Engineering Pvt Ltd

Scalability needs improvement.

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AD
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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BP
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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HK
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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PW
CTO at a tech services company

The scalability of this solution is very good.

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

It's scalable.

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

It scales very well.

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

I think that this solution scales well.

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

Cisco Nexus is scalable.

We have approximately two customers.

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CL
Network Analyst at Govt of Canada

Cisco Nexus is very scalable.

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TM
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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TN
Network Services Manager at Allen Systems Group

The scalability of the Cisco Nexus is very high.

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it_user208146 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer, Security Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Scalability goes in accordance with money spent.

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DL
Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is easily scalable.

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

Cisco Nexus is very scalable.

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RS
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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HS
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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Buyer's Guide
Cisco Nexus
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Cisco Nexus. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
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