Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches review
February 10, 2026

Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches review

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Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches

We're currently using Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches in our data centers.

Pros

  • VRFs (virtual routing and forwarding)
  • Routing
  • Segmentation
  • Stability
  • Good hardware
We were able to decomission Nexus 7ks, and move everything off of it towards he Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches devices. The VRFs are easily creatable, separating the routing tables and traffic between VRFs, making it unnecessary to aquire additional hardware, while the VRFs does the job. All good and happy with the product so far.
The prefix-lists, as well as access lists are working as expected, simple to deploy and very efficient. Not much have been used, as to my knowledge, apart from this. Looking into the Nexus One and Nexus Dashboard for the future improvements. The security aspect of Nexus devices is yet to be discovered fully by myself.
It's been very comfortable to work with. So far no issues. Device is very understandable, as well as hardware is powerful enough to push a high volume of traffic over it and be comfortable that nothing goes wrong(only once the the appropriate research been validated).
So far so good.
Well, Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches feels more stable, as well as we have active licenses. They're being actively maintained as well as support is being there for us to ask for any assistance whenever we need them. Apart from this even Nexus 7k was working well, and been providing a huge value to the business.

Do you think Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches's feature set?

Yes

Did Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches again?

Yes

The best, in my opinion, is the data center scenarios, where multiple VRFs are necessary. Where the DC traffic needs to be segmented, and separated according to the business needs.

Less appropriate is for a small business scenarios, where not much of traffic is being passed through and the requirements are not high.

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