We performed a comparison between Arista Networks Platform and Cisco Nexus based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: In this comparison, the two products received similar ratings across all categories. However, users of Arista Networks Platform reported seeing an ROI while users of Cisco Nexus did not.
"They support open standard features."
"The user-friendly policy manager lets us apply different controls for various user groups easily."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The solution is very stable."
"The product's initial setup phase was straightforward."
"Arista Networks Platform offers straightforward deployment, and has good features. Support for the platform is also good."
"The best part is the single operating system that they have. Regardless of your model, it's the same operating system functioning across the board, which means you don't have to worry about backward compatibilities between your older switches and the new ones that you deploy."
"It's an extremely reliable platform for the network switches we use."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco Nexus is the performance, flexibility, configuration, and cost. It's not a traditional pricing model from Cisco. They've offered our company a considerable reduction in price. That makes Cisco Nexus now very competitive with other vendors."
"The most valuable features of the solution are capacity and scalability."
"It is a scalable, reliable, stable and efficient solution."
"The most valuable feature is its reliability."
"Its low latency is most valuable. Its performance is good, and it is also very stable."
"It provides a very flexible connection to a server. When you go into history and the VPC, it provides a very flexible connection from it. Once a server goes down I can instruct it easily. So the network actually keeps quality even if onsite it is down."
"The redundancy and the vPC are the most valuable features. We can integrate two switches together for file transfers; that is, we can operate two switches as one. This is because the network can be shared via a vPC trunk, particularly for devices that are not critical for redundancy."
"The product has a stable and strong server panel switch."
"An area for improvement in Arista Networks Platform is its integration, e.g. it needs to have more integration with its new products. Incorporating more security and cloud is also another area for improvement in the platform."
"They should have a more stable code."
"The solution is a bit pricey."
"I want the solution to include a unified controller."
"The solution is quite expensive. One of the negative aspects of it is the pricing."
"The CVP management platform needs to be improved."
"The solution needs to accommodate new features."
"The stability of this solution needs to be improved as part of the next upgrade."
"The scalability can be improved."
"Areas in which the solution have room for improvement are the interface, management, and reporting."
"We have encountered some software bugs."
"There's been a little bit of bugginess in the code, but that happens."
"The initial setup of the Cisco Nexus platform takes a long time. It's a complex system because we have a lot of security layers."
"Multi contexts would be nice to have to separate different tenants logically and securely."
"One of the problems we have is that there is no confirmation for when you try to test a system command."
"The pricing must be improved."
Arista Networks Platform is ranked 2nd in Data Center Networking with 21 reviews while Cisco Nexus is ranked 3rd in Data Center Networking with 101 reviews. Arista Networks Platform is rated 8.6, while Cisco Nexus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Arista Networks Platform writes "Affordable for enterprise-sized companies". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Nexus writes " Offer high performance capabilities and enables efficient data transmission and processing". Arista Networks Platform is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches, Aruba Switches, Cisco Ethernet Switches and Meraki MS Switches, whereas Cisco Nexus is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Juniper QFX Series Switches, Dell PowerConnect Switches, VMware NSX and Juniper QFabric. See our Arista Networks Platform vs. Cisco Nexus report.
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