Cisco Nexus in service provider DC
February 04, 2019
Cisco Nexus in service provider DC
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Nexus
Cisco Nexus switches are in the heart of our data centre providing an ACI software controlled fabric as well in a Nexus-OS software controlled [environment]. Multiple fabrics provide multiple location connectivity layers to our capacity hosts. APIC controlled Nexus fabric day 2 operation is fully automated so that only one-time onboarding infrastructure typed configurations are done via an APIC controller cluster.
- Configuration from a centralized point
- High availability in an excellent level, not only physical components
- APIC for SDN
- Licensing model is not so clear in all cases, for example the ACI license model changed
- QoS
- Hard to keep the SW level bug-free
- Nexus fabrics are enablers for us to provide customer needed services. So it is mandatory to have a reliable backbone in the infrastructure
- No MIMs in an infrastructure caused by Nexus - no penalties paid to customers
Nexus and Juniper switches we have compared are both performing well in our environment and both are capable to deliver what they promise. From an operations point of view, Cisco is more familiar to many people than Juniper, so small pros to Cisco Nexus on that part.