Basically, the Cisco Nexus is an L3 switch, and it offers the capabilities of L2 and L3 switches. The product is used for server farm switches and core switches, where there are big servers and data flow.
I work in a cyber security company. My company handles cyber security products as a part of networking. In the networking part, my company handles routers and switches, along with the configurations related to routing and switching areas, while taking care of network troubleshooting. As a network administrator, the aforementioned areas consist of my main tasks. My company does not get to utilize the tool for our organization's data center architecture since we don't deal in the area of data centers. The tool is useful in the area of networking.
Currently, our infrastructure relies on hyper-converged technology, in conjunction with Cisco infrastructure, which is essential for our features. Spamify utilizes Cisco infrastructure for its functionality, while Linksys manages connections with other systems. Our servers handle computation, storage, and related technologies, while Cisco takes care of network functions, including routing and switching. We also employ Cisco's firewall for security purposes, both externally and internally. Now, we're in search of structural virtualization technology with security and virtualization capabilities for version 4.16.
We use Cisco Nexus in our data center to aggregate all the systems in our enterprise. Everyone in the company uses it indirectly, so we have 72,000 users.
We mainly use them as core network switches. They are configured as a VPC cluster, and we have distribution layer switches attached to both chassis with virtual port channels. Additionally, we have another VDC to connect all the access layer switches for user connectivity.
ICT Infrastructure Solutions Engineer at Datec (Fiji) Limited
Real User
Top 10
2023-02-21T07:23:16Z
Feb 21, 2023
We use Cisco Nexus especially when we have bigger datacenter projects for organizations such as banks where the operations of all subsidiaries and sister companies are controlled from the head office.
Senior Network Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2021-08-23T11:47:36Z
Aug 23, 2021
The solution is our aggregation switch. We have all our data services, and users (not end-users) services going through our Nexus. It connects our firewalls and it connects other switches and makes our load balances work. Basically, we were given the switch and then we configured it and we will put it in the network and we maintain it.
We use Cisco Nexus on our server-side. We use the product for the access switches layer. We basically take a look at the actual DNA center, however, it will be a time until we will implement the agent from Cisco again.
The Cisco Nexus switches are the best and most reliable solution for us in my previous company, which was a telecom service provider. We used cisco modular switches for our heavy services as part of our GSM network as it requires heavy processing and highest performance.
Practice Lead - Data Center Networking at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees
MSP
2021-01-22T15:17:36Z
Jan 22, 2021
I am an engineer and work primarily with our data center network and data center security. The Nexus switch is a data center switch and I have a lot of recent experience with it. My company is a solution provider and this is one of the products that we sell to our clients.
Service Validation Engineers at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2019-06-19T08:36:00Z
Jun 19, 2019
We use this solution as an aggregate router in our data center environment so that we can have an extended VLAN port between different data centers, regional and local. The company has multiple data centers and most of the connections between them are through the 9K switches. We also have a couple of them in our lab for testing. These are used to test throughput, the system reliability, accuracy, and scalability for how many VLAN extenders we can have in our infrastructure. We are using Spine-and-Leaf architecture for our data centers.
Network Engineer at a university with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2019-06-19T08:36:00Z
Jun 19, 2019
This solution is the backbone of our data center. We have multiple tenants built on it, in a network-centric design. We have our Dev QA tenant, user acceptance tenant, production tenant, our DMZ, and then our user edge where everything comes in and goes out. We have firewalls in between all of the tenants, and we use ACI to microsegment between the networks, within the tenants. All of the intra-tenant traffic goes through the firewalls.
Senior Network Design Engineer at Kent State University
Real User
2019-06-19T08:36:00Z
Jun 19, 2019
This solution is used in our data center. It is our layer-two switches that connect all of our servers to the data center firewall. Our data center is a little bit different than most in that we're only layer-two in the data center.
Product Manager - Networking & Security at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
MSP
2019-06-19T08:36:00Z
Jun 19, 2019
Our primary use case of this solution is to provide Nexus 9000 in different models for the user on top of our switches or as core switches. It depends on the design and the customer's needs.
Network Coordinator at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2019-06-19T08:36:00Z
Jun 19, 2019
We got it for its port density. Our primary use case of this solution is so we can connect all of our other departments and agencies. It'll be the main connection to our core routers. I don't work directly on it, I work with the router that connects to it.
IT Manager Network at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2019-06-19T08:36:00Z
Jun 19, 2019
The pros of the Cisco Nexus are the simplified integration with the data center and the end platform before building a data center. Our primary use case of this solution is for the data centers.
Our primary use case for the Cisco Nexus solution is to provide data center access for our customers. This includes providing servers, storage, and interconnecting those to the rest of the network.
Network Engineer at a university with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2019-06-19T08:36:00Z
Jun 19, 2019
The primary use case for Nexus in our company is for the data center. Everybody that has access to our remote server rooms throughout the campus wants 10G data ports all the way across.
Tech Architect at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
2019-06-19T08:36:00Z
Jun 19, 2019
We use Cisco Nexus primarily to check the health of our links. We use it to make sure if our links are good or not. It really helps with troubleshooting.
In my previous company, we relied on this solution as a part of the data center core switch. Everything inside the data center was connected through this unit.
Unified Communications Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2019-06-19T08:36:00Z
Jun 19, 2019
The entirety of our network infrastructure is Cisco-based, and our voice infrastructure comes across that as well. I handle the Unified Communications.
Network Engineer at a government with 11-50 employees
Real User
2019-06-19T08:36:00Z
Jun 19, 2019
We use the 9000s in a series of different things in both the data center and even in the LAN (Local Area Network). Mainly we just use the products for the management of all the traffic — nothing really crazy. Being in the government, we can't use ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure) and certain other technologies yet. The 9000s are deployed for high-end layer two and layer three switching capabilities.
We were doing a data center migration. We extended the network from the previous location to the new location. We had about 90% of the applications work seamlessly.
Sr Manager of Network and Telephony at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
2019-06-19T08:36:00Z
Jun 19, 2019
The primary use case is for the core network infrastructure of our data centers. We use Nexus and the FEX line of products to interconnect all of the server infrastructure, as well as external connections that come in from our outside vendors.
CTIO at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2019-06-19T08:36:00Z
Jun 19, 2019
The primary use case is for a secure and reliable connection to our servers. We use Nexus to connect to servers with a large capacity and high throughput. The solution has high availability which is very important for us, and Nexus provides that.
Our primary use case for Cisco Nexus is the data center. We use it for all of our enterprise servers, for our phone systems, and other things along those lines.
Consultant at a mining and metals company with 201-500 employees
Consultant
2019-06-19T08:36:00Z
Jun 19, 2019
For the 9300 switches, we use them specifically for IPv6 routing in this particular instance, although there are plans to deploy them in a more general variety of switch-type use cases.
The Cisco Nexus family of switches is designed to meet the stringent requirements of the next-generation data center. Not simply bigger or faster, these switches offer the following characteristics: infrastructure that can be scaled cost-effectively and that helps you increase energy, budget, and resource efficiency, transport that can navigate the transition to 10 Gigabit Ethernet and unified fabric and can also handle architectural changes such as virtualization, Web 2.0 applications, and...
I use the solution in my company for interconnecting servers and the nodes with the core switch or distribution switch.
Basically, the Cisco Nexus is an L3 switch, and it offers the capabilities of L2 and L3 switches. The product is used for server farm switches and core switches, where there are big servers and data flow.
I work in a cyber security company. My company handles cyber security products as a part of networking. In the networking part, my company handles routers and switches, along with the configurations related to routing and switching areas, while taking care of network troubleshooting. As a network administrator, the aforementioned areas consist of my main tasks. My company does not get to utilize the tool for our organization's data center architecture since we don't deal in the area of data centers. The tool is useful in the area of networking.
We use the solution for the data center.
Currently, our infrastructure relies on hyper-converged technology, in conjunction with Cisco infrastructure, which is essential for our features. Spamify utilizes Cisco infrastructure for its functionality, while Linksys manages connections with other systems. Our servers handle computation, storage, and related technologies, while Cisco takes care of network functions, including routing and switching. We also employ Cisco's firewall for security purposes, both externally and internally. Now, we're in search of structural virtualization technology with security and virtualization capabilities for version 4.16.
We use Cisco Nexus in our data center to aggregate all the systems in our enterprise. Everyone in the company uses it indirectly, so we have 72,000 users.
We mainly use them as core network switches. They are configured as a VPC cluster, and we have distribution layer switches attached to both chassis with virtual port channels. Additionally, we have another VDC to connect all the access layer switches for user connectivity.
We use Cisco Nexus especially when we have bigger datacenter projects for organizations such as banks where the operations of all subsidiaries and sister companies are controlled from the head office.
We are using the Cisco Nexus as our core switch for our main backbone.
I do not know which version we are using.
The solution is our aggregation switch. We have all our data services, and users (not end-users) services going through our Nexus. It connects our firewalls and it connects other switches and makes our load balances work. Basically, we were given the switch and then we configured it and we will put it in the network and we maintain it.
We primarily use the solution as a switch. We use it for our data center.
We use Cisco Nexus on our server-side. We use the product for the access switches layer. We basically take a look at the actual DNA center, however, it will be a time until we will implement the agent from Cisco again.
I use Cisco Nexus for the private cloud.
We use the solution in a data center farm.
The Cisco Nexus switches are the best and most reliable solution for us in my previous company, which was a telecom service provider. We used cisco modular switches for our heavy services as part of our GSM network as it requires heavy processing and highest performance.
We use Cisco Nexus for the switches. It's a switch product, and I think we have 350 users on our network.
I am an engineer and work primarily with our data center network and data center security. The Nexus switch is a data center switch and I have a lot of recent experience with it. My company is a solution provider and this is one of the products that we sell to our clients.
I use the solution in the customer's companies. I have used many different version of the solution.
The primary uses of this solution are for managing email servers, EIP modules, and file servers.
The primary use case is for Data Center switches.
We primarily use the Nexus Series, that's the 7000 Series, as a core switch. We have other 10-gauge switches to work as a server switch.
The product is basically used for our entire phone system.
We use it for data center connectivity and we integrate it with ACI.
We use this solution for our new data center.
We use this solution as an aggregate router in our data center environment so that we can have an extended VLAN port between different data centers, regional and local. The company has multiple data centers and most of the connections between them are through the 9K switches. We also have a couple of them in our lab for testing. These are used to test throughput, the system reliability, accuracy, and scalability for how many VLAN extenders we can have in our infrastructure. We are using Spine-and-Leaf architecture for our data centers.
This solution is the backbone of our data center. We have multiple tenants built on it, in a network-centric design. We have our Dev QA tenant, user acceptance tenant, production tenant, our DMZ, and then our user edge where everything comes in and goes out. We have firewalls in between all of the tenants, and we use ACI to microsegment between the networks, within the tenants. All of the intra-tenant traffic goes through the firewalls.
This solution is the backbone of our data center. It is the fabric to our UCS blade servers.
We use this solution in our data center.
This solution is used in our data center. It is our layer-two switches that connect all of our servers to the data center firewall. Our data center is a little bit different than most in that we're only layer-two in the data center.
Our primary use for Cisco Nexus is for storage.
Our main use of Cisco Nexus is as our data center core switch.
We use this solution in our data center core.
Our primary use case of this solution is to provide Nexus 9000 in different models for the user on top of our switches or as core switches. It depends on the design and the customer's needs.
We got it for its port density. Our primary use case of this solution is so we can connect all of our other departments and agencies. It'll be the main connection to our core routers. I don't work directly on it, I work with the router that connects to it.
The pros of the Cisco Nexus are the simplified integration with the data center and the end platform before building a data center. Our primary use case of this solution is for the data centers.
Our primary use case for the Cisco Nexus solution is to provide data center access for our customers. This includes providing servers, storage, and interconnecting those to the rest of the network.
Our primary use case for the Cisco Nexus is for a VXLAN environment with some video multicast.
Our primary use case is for our core network.
Our primary use case is for multitenant switching in our data centers for our edge equipment to go in between our firewalls and out to the internet.
The primary use case for Nexus in our company is for the data center. Everybody that has access to our remote server rooms throughout the campus wants 10G data ports all the way across.
Our primary use case for Cisco Nexus is for our data center and for collaboration with other switches.
Our primary use case for the Cisco Nexus solution is as a core fiber switch.
Our primary use case for the Cisco Nexus solution is for our core. We have Nexus 9000 and also Catalyst 9000 floor switches.
Our primary use case for the Cisco Nexus solution is for our data center switches. It's our core switch that we use everywhere.
We use Cisco Nexus primarily to check the health of our links. We use it to make sure if our links are good or not. It really helps with troubleshooting.
Our primary use case for Cisco Nexus is for MACsec encryption.
This solution is used as the core and access switches in our largest data center. We have several of them that make up our 40-gigabit uplink.
Our primary use for this solution is enterprise networking.
We have a lot of customers that we implement Nexus platforms for.
We use this solution for our data center switches.
This solution is used as a switch in our data center.
We use Nexus primarily for our data centers.
In my previous company, we relied on this solution as a part of the data center core switch. Everything inside the data center was connected through this unit.
We primarily use this solution for data centers in places like high schools or businesses that support other businesses.
This solution manages our data center and is our core infrastructure switch. All of our firewalls and application servers terminate into the 5K.
We are using this solution in the redesign of our data center network. Specifically, to provide an aggregation point for our data center services.
Our primary use case for the Cisco Nexus solution is network connectivity.
The entirety of our network infrastructure is Cisco-based, and our voice infrastructure comes across that as well. I handle the Unified Communications.
We use this solution as the fabric switches for our VMware environment.
We primarily use this product for campaign management.
We use this solution for our data center layer two, layer three, infrastructure.
Our primary use case of this solution is for our data center environment.
We use this solution for our networking.
This solution provides all of the routing and searching features that we need. We use it for internal use, rather than resell it to our customers.
We use the 9000s in a series of different things in both the data center and even in the LAN (Local Area Network). Mainly we just use the products for the management of all the traffic — nothing really crazy. Being in the government, we can't use ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure) and certain other technologies yet. The 9000s are deployed for high-end layer two and layer three switching capabilities.
We were doing a data center migration. We extended the network from the previous location to the new location. We had about 90% of the applications work seamlessly.
We use this solution for the access layer of our network.
The primary use case is for the core network infrastructure of our data centers. We use Nexus and the FEX line of products to interconnect all of the server infrastructure, as well as external connections that come in from our outside vendors.
My primary use for this solution is bridging servers and storage arrays and networks across multiple domains.
Our primary use for this solution is as headend switches at remote sites.
We use this solution in our data centers.
We use this solution in our data center.
The Cisco Nexus is the core of our network, and I am responsible for troubleshooting the device.
We use Cisco Nexus for data center requirements and interconnectivity.
Our primary use case for the Cisco Nexus solution is for the data center.
The primary use case is for a secure and reliable connection to our servers. We use Nexus to connect to servers with a large capacity and high throughput. The solution has high availability which is very important for us, and Nexus provides that.
Our primary use case for Cisco Nexus is the data center. We use it for all of our enterprise servers, for our phone systems, and other things along those lines.
For the 9300 switches, we use them specifically for IPv6 routing in this particular instance, although there are plans to deploy them in a more general variety of switch-type use cases.
Mostly what we use Cisco Nexus for is in our access layer and distribution networks on our campus.
We use this solution as a core aggregated switch.
Our primary use case for Cisco Nexus is for an internet data center.
Our primary use for the Cisco Nexus is the data center, core routing, switching, etc.
We use the Cisco Nexus as our primary solution for the data center.
We are using the Cisco Nexus for switching. We use the product for LAN switching, overall switching, and for the data center.