Our choice for Datacenter networking
April 28, 2021
Our choice for Datacenter networking
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Nexus 9000 Series
Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Nexus
We're using Cisco Nexus platform on our primary and secondary datacenters on a leaf-spine architecture for about 6 years now.
Our need to increase the communication throughput on our Datacenter, between the datacenter equipments and also from datacenter to end-users, lead us to decide for this design / architecture.
We had some guidance from Cisco and from a local Cisco partner / channel during the implementation project.
We have Cisco Nexus 7k as our top of racks and 2 Cisco Nexus 9k as our datacenter's core. All the communication is redundant and we have at least 10Gb communication between all datacenter equipment.
Our need to increase the communication throughput on our Datacenter, between the datacenter equipments and also from datacenter to end-users, lead us to decide for this design / architecture.
We had some guidance from Cisco and from a local Cisco partner / channel during the implementation project.
We have Cisco Nexus 7k as our top of racks and 2 Cisco Nexus 9k as our datacenter's core. All the communication is redundant and we have at least 10Gb communication between all datacenter equipment.
- Reliability - Cisco is a well known player due to its products reliability.
- High throughput.
- CLI interaction and commands are friendly and familiar.
- Scalability.
- Price - Cisco equipment is quite expensive in Brazil.
- In the last years it required a lot of bug fixes.
- High throughput and low latencies.
- Aggregation between TOR and EOR switches.
- It allowed us to achieve a great performance and reliability levels on our Datacenters.
We haven't considered products from other network players, since we're Cisco customers for decades.
Cisco is a well known and well stablished player on the network market, specially for the datacenters and their products are very reliable.
Also, we already had the knowledge and experience managing Cisco equipment in-house, so it was a very easy decision to make.
Cisco is a well known and well stablished player on the network market, specially for the datacenters and their products are very reliable.
Also, we already had the knowledge and experience managing Cisco equipment in-house, so it was a very easy decision to make.
Do you think Cisco Nexus Series Switches delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Cisco Nexus Series Switches's feature set?
Yes
Did Cisco Nexus Series Switches live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Cisco Nexus Series Switches go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Cisco Nexus Series Switches again?
Yes