Likelihood to Recommend This easy solution can be a great help for the big companies on easy multiple data processing and effective networking solutions for the various departments and also generating the real-time data reports with Cisco NX-OS is excellent. For the new users, it takes no time to become a pro on full manipulation of the features and offer the best and quality management services.
Read full review IBM AIX is a very powerful and extremely stable operating environment. It is well suited for applications that are business critical and cannot tolerate outages. It is best used to address large enterprise level application needs where stability and scalability are of paramount importance. IBM AIX is less useful for small enterprises.
Read full review Pros Cisco NX-OS is very simple to use and user friendly CLI NX-OS has a modular config so easy to configure. NX-OS comes up with copp policy where we can define most of our system level ontrols instead of defining separate ACLs Read full review The newer version of IBM AIX allows to apply new patches without system restart IBM AIX was the first operating system to have a journaling file system and have enhanced software features. IBM AIX will have good vendor support 24/7 and will ensure reliability to the customers and more performance when compared to it peers. Read full review Cons Being used to Catalyst IOS the change in some commands gets annoying It also came with a new license model compared to IOS devices Read full review A lot of the built-in commands have not been updated in years. If you're used to some fancy CLI options in Linux, you may be out of luck with AIX. Out of the box, you cannot run open-source Linux utilities on AIX. There is a toolbox you can install, however, it's not the same versions as you would get in different Linux flavors. Tab completion for files and Up arrow to re-run previous commands don't work out of the box without running a Korn shell. A small annoyance, but one that catches me every time! Read full review Usability NX-OS has many similarities with the traditional IOS which is quite beneficial when it comes to configuration and learning. As a native Linux system, there are a lot of tools and features that can be enabled for any use case.
Read full review Performance Our switches running NX-OS have provided solid consistent throughput. We haven't had any issues with it not being able to handle what we threw at it. The latency is extremely low. It also has multiple management options that we hope to pursue in the future.
Read full review Support Rating Cisco support never fails me. In terms of timely response, no one is on par with them. They really value the impact of having technical issues and potential business stoppage. Also, their support staff are well equipped with knowledge and skills and easily resolve the most common incidents. Most of the time, we can resolve an issue by just calling them once.
Read full review There is lots of documentation out there for AIX. On the times I've had to address a hardware issue, IBM's support has been great.
Read full review Alternatives Considered When compared to these data center switches, I think Cisco Nx-OS based data center switches fare very well in terms of performance and reliability. When looking and talking about security, Cisco and Juniper Junos are comparable but Huawei switches lag in terms of security due to various reasons like who owns and controls them.
Read full review Standard Linux distributions which are used more as commodity servers do not offer the ease of scale and growth that we see with our Aix implementations. IBM owning the HW and SW portions of the stack allows for tighter integrations and better performance windows.
Read full review Scalability Up to now, we haven't had a major ground-shaking attack on our networks but we take no chances by using NX-OS alongside a SIEM. All endpoints and workloads are secure so I would say we have plenty of trust in their security model.
Read full review Return on Investment overall a good prodcut overa all a good product it will help you in ROI by removing some tools from your environement The software have HA and lastest technology features included Read full review IBM AIX on Power hardware has been the backbone of our most critical applications. The versatility of IBM AIX virtualization has been extremely useful, scalable, and provided configuration with redundant dual VIO servers. IBM AIX is not Linux so special skill sets are needed to actually manage the systems. Finding qualified engineers can often be a challenge Read full review ScreenShots