We performed a comparison between Cisco Nexus and HPE A-Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Arista, Dell Technologies and others in Data Center Networking."From a data center implementation, with respect to competition from your data, there isn't really a product recovery for the different tests other than Cisco Nexus. For example, if you take Multi-tenancy for the data center, it's something which, I think, only Cisco has. There are some implementation from HP, but I think it's limited there."
"The in-service software upgrade (ISSU) feature is quite valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the Bluetooth console."
"The most valuable features of this solution are scalability and throughput."
"The most valuable feature of the 7700 series is probably the multi-context subset VRS, which lets you use multi-VRS, multi-context, and also VPC setup, where you have two logical devices that are still separate in terms of management planes, but have shared, virtual core channels."
"Nexus has improved my organization in the way that it provided enhanced security in a point in the network that was critical."
"We used older versions of Cisco Cloud. The reason why we switched was just adapting with the times."
"The most valuable features of the solution are capacity and scalability."
"The solution is very stable."
"The only thing to improve is to continue to get better."
"The licensing is very complicated. They should work to simplify it."
"They should make it easier to update the code on it."
"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."
"The flexibility and configuration could be better."
"It would be great if they could make the interface a little more user-friendly, but not trade power off for simplicity."
"I would like to see better monitoring actions supported in the next release of this solution."
"For a very small subset, Cisco Nexus caused port flapping within the applications."
"Some follow up from our user-partners would be useful. Letting users know what is up and coming or providing better documentation would be helpful. Overall, the solution could offer its users better support."
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Cisco Nexus is ranked 3rd in Data Center Networking with 101 reviews while HPE A-Series is ranked 9th in Data Center Networking. Cisco Nexus is rated 8.4, while HPE A-Series is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco Nexus writes " Offer high performance capabilities and enables efficient data transmission and processing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE A-Series writes "Stable and scalable with a good user interface". Cisco Nexus is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Juniper QFX Series Switches, Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches and Juniper MX Series Universal Routing Platforms, whereas HPE A-Series is most compared with .
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