Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches vs. HPE Networking Comware / FlexFabric Switches

Datacentres whether it is for Core, Top Of Rack or SAN it's great, enables high throughput and yet at achievable costs. I especially like using it as SAN switches compared to other SAN switches as it can be simpler to manager I wouldn't use it for campus or remote sites for the cost that it comes at and the additional setup that would be required.

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The switch is intuitive and very simple to configure so I would recommend it to anyone for their data center. It allows for someone who might just be a server expert and not a switching expert to have a far simpler time than would normally be expected.

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• Routing data between idf's
• Secure access to core server infrastructure
• User interface for configuration changes
• Quality of service for different network devices

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• SCSI support.
• No additional license to unlock features.
• High availability.

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• Nexus 9000 could have smaller model for a lower pricepoint
• Nexus 9000 Features could all be turned on
• IKE security keys could automatically refresh on their own

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• Consistent upgrades and updates considering the breaches spreading in the network.
• Interoperability with third party software.

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The N9Ks have served us well. A bit pricier than the competition, but everyone is familiar with NXOS and Cisco

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It's been very comfortable to work with. So far no issues. Device is very understandable, as well as hardware is powerful enough to push a high volume of traffic over it and be comfortable that nothing goes wrong(only once the the appropriate research been validated). So far so good

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Always up, always working. The nexus switches takes everything that yiu can throw at it and just keeps working with minimal interaction required.

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Ignoring the integration piece as we haven't integrated. However performance wise we don't get issues with latency etc, it deals with what we have quite easily. However I suppose you need to ensure you get the right switch for the throughput.

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Had to choose a rating but never had to call out Cisco in regards to products.

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We did all our prep before hand, tested in the lab, so in the night as soon as we brought down the current environment it was just a case of moving cables across and bringing up the network in stages

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Beyond purely political considerations regarding the use of Chinese products in our company, Cisco NEXUS switches support VPC, which was not the case with our Huawei Cloud Engines, which only supported the stack. This was a real problem during updates because we had to update the entire stack at once, which paralysed an entire rack.

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HPE FlexNetwork 5510 HI delivers outstanding resiliency, security, and multiservice support while Aruba is more suitable for mobile network support

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Never had an issue touch wood, bugs are a rarity and they have good uptime. Most reliable product cisco provide by a country mile.

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• We can use this switches for really long time.
• The software upgrade process is really non-disruptive on dual-homed devices.
• In 15 years of using Nexuses we don't have any big problem with them.

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• Performs well under stress, it is the core of our data center for over 3 years without any failures.
• Simplified our topology in our data center.

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