We performed a comparison between Cisco Nexus and TeraScale [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Arista, Dell Technologies and others in Data Center Networking."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 most valuable feature of Cisco Nexus is speed compared to what you would get from a Catalyst Series switch."
"This solution has allowed us to better prepare our network for 10-gigabit."
"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."
"Cisco Nexus and Cisco Catalyst have processing power and offer good utilization of Cisco devices."
"We've found their tech support to be excellent, especially in their willingness to resolve issues promptly."
"This solution streamlines how we have to configure things because we can do everything from one device, whereas if we had individual devices we would have to go to each one and configure them manually."
"The setup was very easy, but managing it in operations was very complex."
"Our customers find the efficiency of TerraScale valuable."
"I would like to see better monitoring actions supported in the next release of this solution."
"Areas in which the solution have room for improvement are the interface, management, and reporting."
"I would like to see a lighter platform."
"If I call during a high volume, I might get someone that just doesn't know as much or it takes a little bit of time and they put us on hold more. Otherwise, it's good."
"Currently, the switches don't behave like the 4500 switches in terms of acting as one physical chassis. So the multi-chassis PortChannel feature is not applicable in this case. Nevertheless, virtual port-channel feature covers this."
"It would be ideal if there was better integration with various other platforms."
"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 initial setup was pretty complex, mostly because of our environment, having to do multi-context. That's where you have a lot of different logical routes that are in one physical device, and it can get kind of complex trying to think about how to set all that up. You really have to whiteboard it out a lot."
"Cost is a primary factor of TerraScale."
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Cisco Nexus is ranked 3rd in Data Center Networking with 101 reviews while TeraScale [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Data Center Networking. Cisco Nexus is rated 8.4, while TeraScale [EOL] is rated 0.0. 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 TeraScale [EOL] writes "Technology is good but the price is the only factor". Cisco Nexus is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Juniper QFX Series Switches, Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches and VMware NSX, whereas TeraScale [EOL] is most compared with Juniper QFX Series Switches.
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