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."Cisco Nexus has improved the way our organization functions through the troubleshooting. We had issues where we've seen our links saturated. We were able to determine what was being processed on the link."
"Cisco Nexus is a stable solution."
"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."
"It's pretty easy to use and operates at high speed."
"We leverage Cisco DCNM a lot, which allows us to automate."
"The most valuable feature is the Bluetooth console."
"The most valuable feature is its reliability."
"A very solid and reliable solution."
"The solution is very stable."
"As a device meant to lead the processes related to networking and troubleshooting, I feel both aspects can be described as areas with certain concerns where improvements are required."
"This solution costs a lot."
"Ease-of-use and making things more human-readable is most important."
"They need to offer fibre switches in the 9K series."
"I feel that this solution should be more flexible and scalable."
"It would be ideal if there was better integration with various other platforms."
"There are too many different model numbers and too much complexity."
"It would be nice if the solution offered multiple types of port support."
"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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