Cisco NX-OS vs Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) | TrustRadius

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Score 7.9 out of 10

Based on 13 reviews and ratings

Score 8.7 out of 10

Based on 111 reviews and ratings

Pros

easy to configure
easy to configure and deploy the VPC technology
easy of administering the nx-os and overall easy configuration and support available

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Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Support for multiple shell environments. It supports most of the popular shell environments and lets you create shell scripts for your backend tasks.
It comes with nice out of the box features for OS level performance monitoring and troubleshooting.
RHEL has a great support forum. If you ever need technical help, the forum is extremely useful.

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Senior Oracle Database Administrator

CGIInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

Stability of the software (in the early days).
Lacks some of the features of regular IOS.
The command syntax is sometimes just that little bit different from iOS, causing issues for automation, scripting, etc.

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Professional in Information Technology

Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 10,001+ employees

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While the command line installation runs well, the desktop GUI tends to be resource intensive at times
The GUI based install menu does not scale well at times resulting in some menu options spilling offscreen
By default a menu based network manager should be included, from my experience particularly with the minimal install, this was not the case resulting in me editing the configuration file directly. Additionally, network tools should also be installed by default.

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Administrator in Information Technology

Insurance Company, 501-1000 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.0

Based on 1 answer

We find RHEL to be a superior OS with stable operations and long life. It is also easier to use and fix then most other OS's.

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CEO

US DataVault, IncComputer & Network Security, 11-50 employees

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Usability

Cisco NX-OS 8.2

Based on 1 answer

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.

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Professional in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.0

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RHEL has most of the features that are required by an ERP solution. If you need any additional packages, RHEL has a great repository and a very easy package installation/upgrade process.

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Senior Oracle Database Administrator

CGIInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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Performance

Cisco NX-OS 7.9

Based on 7 answers

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.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 201-500 employees

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Support Rating

Cisco NX-OS 7.9

Based on 3 answers

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.

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John Patrick Duro

Security Analyst II

AsurionInsurance, 1001-5000 employees

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.8

Based on 9 answers

Red Hat support has really come a long way in the last 10 years, The general support is great, and the specialized product support teams are extremely knowledgeable about their specific products. Response time is good and you never need to escalate.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Retail Company, 10,001+ employees

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Implementation Rating

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.0

Based on 1 answer

Don't be afraid of it, its easy to install and configure for the tasks needed.

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CEO

US DataVault, IncComputer & Network Security, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We studied the solutions from both vendors but we went for Cisco because it's powerful out of the box and has great support. It's also easy to find knowledge and support communities, and we already had a relationship with Cisco.

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IT Network Manager

WadiDeglaSports, 1001-5000 employees

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While many enterprise applications offer Windows Server support, I never really seriously considered it for our application, as Windows simply Blue Screens too often for serving a business critical application. Instead, I took a look at Red Hat's upstream distro, CentOS. Had my deployment case been different, I probably would have considered CentOS more strongly. However, I needed the confidence of having someone to call if we had issues in order to ensure uptime for our applications. In short, RHEL was the ideal choice.

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Engineer in Research & Development

Pharmaceuticals Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Scalability

Cisco NX-OS 7.9

Based on 7 answers

Security is something I know Cisco take seriously and there are many security features across all their devices. I don't think features like zero-trust are enabled by default though, so it does require reading the relevant guide and applying commands that suit your environment which can mean the implementation is not always as robust as intended.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Return on Investment

It is serving the purpose from last few years.
Need to spend multiple manpower cycles to do the reload/code upgrades.
We need to request for downtime from the user to do the reload/code upgrades.

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Senior Network Engineer

Verizon MediaMedia Production, 5001-10,000 employees

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Overall, RHEL has helped us achieve heights in performance management and handling a large crowd at once with its huge management capacities. It is highly reliable and if used with apt load balancers you will not require more than one backup server because the crash frequency is minimal.
No negative impacted has been faced as of now since using RHEL.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Management Consulting Company, 10,001+ employees

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