We performed a comparison between Aruba Instant On Switches and Cisco Nexus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two LAN Switching solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Setup is easy."
"The solution provides GUI control, making it particularly suitable for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and small office/home office (SOHO) networks."
"It is straightforward to set up."
"The online monitoring tool and the configuration of the application with the tool are valuable features."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The tool's best part is the commercials. Its pricing is lower compared to other enterprise products. We pitch the product to customers who have budget constraints. Its implementation is plug-and-play."
"The dashboard for clients is very nice."
"The cost and simplicity of the product are its most valuable features."
"This solution has allowed us to better prepare our network for 10-gigabit."
"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."
"When it comes to data centers, Cisco Nexus is the best."
"Technical support has been very, very helpful and they offer good SLAs."
"A very solid and reliable solution."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its ease of use."
"The most valuable features are the access layer security, OpenConfig, and OpenFlow."
"We are a Cisco shop. This solution is better compared to other options."
"Its scalability needs improvement."
"Some customers have made complaints about Aruba Instant On Switches' stability."
"In the next version, they should add a firewall from a single source."
"They should extend the marketing and talk about Aruba's success stories throughout the region."
"You cannot use many VLANs, like VLAN 10, VLAN 20, VLAN 30, and VLAN 100 on Aruba Instant On AP."
"Instant On Switches' layer 3 and visibility could be improved."
"The solution does not have any console access. For example, if you do not have internet access on your side and you need to configure anything, you should at least have CLI access to do something or manage the solution to put to some IP. It will only work if we have a TSCT on the network."
"They could provide additional uplink ports, such as eight instead of four. It will be beneficial for our use case."
"I would love to see Active/Active FEX connectivity, which is enhanced vPC, where we could also do a vPC from a server in that type of configuration."
"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."
"The product lacks options for integration with other market products that would allow us more flexibility."
"We lag on the configuration. The changes make a difference in troubleshooting."
"Our only complaint is about the licensing because it can always be a little more cost-effective."
"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."
"Cisco Nexus is just a platform. You just set it up, give it an IP, and then start configuring it. But there are a million features to configure."
"If we could get some more automation integrated into it, it would make it easier."
Aruba Instant On Switches is ranked 4th in LAN Switching with 20 reviews while Cisco Nexus is ranked 6th in LAN Switching with 101 reviews. Aruba Instant On Switches is rated 8.6, while Cisco Nexus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Aruba Instant On Switches writes "A very stable tool that needs to offer better startup speed". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Nexus writes " Offer high performance capabilities and enables efficient data transmission and processing". Aruba Instant On Switches is most compared with HPE ProCurve, Cisco Catalyst Switches and NETGEAR Switches, whereas Cisco Nexus is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Juniper QFX Series Switches, Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches and HPE ProCurve. See our Aruba Instant On Switches vs. Cisco Nexus report.
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