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Cisco Nexus Series Switches

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What is Cisco Nexus Series Switches?

Cisco Nexus is a series of network switches.

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Who Buys & Uses Cisco Nexus Series Switches

Cisco Nexus Series Switches Reviews

What users are saying about Cisco Nexus Series Switches.
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Pros

  • Consistent uptime and network stability for critical operations
  • Efficient handling of high data volumes with low latency
  • Familiar command-line interface (CLI) for configuration

Cons

  • Limited embedded automation and third-party integration capabilities
  • Occasional bugs and lengthy reboot times impacting stability
  • Steep learning curve due to platform complexity

A powerful enterprise networking solution with strong reliability.

Rahul Raj
Operations Team Lead in Professional Services at Wow Detailing Studio (11-50 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The Cisco Nexus series is a fast, reliable network switch that helps us manage our data center and provides better speed and reliability. The software handles heavy network traffic and provides better server uptime with fewer interruptions. With the help of this tool, we now have a stronger security system to protect our business networks

Pros

  • The software has a durable hardware system that is designed for 24*7 business operations.
  • The software is quite easy to integrate with other Cisco networking products.
  • This provides support and automation, which helps us achieve better network management.

Cons

  • The licensing and subscription complexity is very costly according to my experience.
  • User interface is also not modern and that intuitive is compared to its rivalry.
  • The software does not provide real world examples for better documentation.

Return on Investment

  • The software provided better automation and reduced most of our manual work, resulting in a time savings of more than 51%.
  • Also, the operating system we had before is now more stable, and we get regular updates.
  • But the negative part is its licensing cost which is always on the higher side.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Cisco Application Control Engine

Other Software Used

Cisco 3504 WLAN Controller

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Incentivized
Jonathan Reed
Network Engineer 3 in Information Technology at Geisinger (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cisco Nexus for all of our campus core and a good portion of our distribution layer in a traditional campus network. We heavily utilize vPC to for redundancy and ease of firmware upgrades in our core and distribution layers in a 24/7 healthcare network

Pros

  • vPC
  • Routing
  • BGP

Cons

  • Firmware upgrades, different code for different line cards
  • Every version has weird quirks and you really need to get granular in the release notes to see if something is going to affect your network

Return on Investment

  • vPC design has allowed us to do seamless upgrades in our cores and distribution without any downtime having everything dual homed to two Nexus in a vPC pair

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Cisco C9350 Series Smart Switches

Cisco Nexus Series Switches the only real Datacenter Switches

Incentivized
Simon Thiffeault
Network Engineer in Information Technology at Group TMX (1001-5000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In my organization, we use Cisco Nexus Series Switches as Data center switches, around 200 of them

Pros

  • Configuration
  • Upgrades
  • Switching

Cons

  • Security
  • Upgrade process
  • Observability

Return on Investment

  • The impact Cisco Nexus Series Switches have on our organization's overall business objectives is that Cisco Nexus Series Switches Permit us to spread our data centers between 2 sites

Usability

Other Software Used

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI), Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services, Cisco Nexus Dashboard

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Incentivized
Sola Omosebi
VP, in Engineering at Morgan Stanley (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cisco Nexus Series Switches in our DC environment as TORs, BGW, VXLAN, OOB, DMZ switches.
The wide range of varieties and options in the Cisco Nexus Series Switches lineup makes it easy to choose for multiple use cases.
With VXLAN, we are able to build Cisco centric VXLAN EVPN Fabric both in single and multisite use cases.
Nexus platforms are also used for Oout of Band use cases.

Pros

  • Ease of Configuration
  • Features are well suited for Datacenter
  • Availability of Multiple varieties based on use cases

Cons

  • Support for BfD
  • support for interopibility with Other vendors for VXLAN
  • visibility in Vxlan NGOAM

Return on Investment

  • Feature set availability
  • High support

Usability

Review

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it within a spine leaf architecture as spine/edge and leaf switches. We were using 40/100G port capacity until this year, then upgraded to 100/400G throughput. Yet to test its true potential, but in the past, the 40/100G did the job for us, and we successfully tested and pushed 1 million subscribers in the field.

Pros

  • Multiple flavors in terms of port capacity and speed to support cross-vendor servers.
  • Never seen a hardware failure of a switch/router since the past 5 years.
  • Security patches were always on time, and addressing the CVEs was impressive.

Cons

  • It may be inventory management under the Nexus dashboard. like giving a detailed view of power usage, rack location(using SNMP location).
  • port expansion, there is no room to add additional ports for 64-port or 32-port switches. The only option is to buy a new switch.
  • I think I am done with negatives because I have very few.

Return on Investment

  • Nexus switches like 9332C, 9364C and 93108 were all impressive in terms of stability.
  • CVE's were addresses on time.
  • No threats or vulnerabilities impacted negatively over the course of 5 years.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches and Cisco 5000 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 5000)

Other Software Used

Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects and Fabric Extenders, Cisco UCS X-Series, Cisco UCS Series

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