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."It's pretty easy to use and operates at high speed."
"When it comes to data centers, Cisco Nexus is the best."
"We used older versions of Cisco Cloud. The reason why we switched was just adapting with the times."
"The most valuable features are extensions and recorded scalability."
"The most valuable features are that it is easy to use, provides stability, easy to configure, low latency, and it provides communication to the data center."
"We have continuity with Cisco, which provides a very high-end solution."
"The consolidation of all of the layer two ports into one rack is very valuable."
"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 solution is very stable."
"Some of the DHCP features need improvement."
"The only issue that I have with this product is finding help on different commands when I'm trying to make a change."
"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."
"One of our switches died last week and we were able to RMA it. Within four hours it arrived on time and worked."
"With some of the products we had before, we had a little more downtime than we would like."
"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 am looking for a GUI that goes alongside them and more SD-WAN built to their core switches."
"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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