Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches start from small end as big
February 15, 2026

Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches start from small end as big

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Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches

We have the pairs of Cisco Nexus 9000 Series as collapsed core layer in our two datacenter sites. We used them as nonblocking spine with easy and cost effective connections with 100 Gbps vPC between sites it help us reduce many other intersite connection.

Pros

  • Cost-effective 100 Gbps interfaces
  • Support for VXLAN EVPN
  • vPC for increased redundancy

Cons

  • We missing dropped support for FEXs.
  • We have little trouble with missing 10/25 Gbps ports on older models.
  • It isn't supported has HSRP between SVI on different VPC domains.
  • We can use this switches for really long time.
  • The software upgrade process is really non-disruptive on dual-homed devices.
  • In 15 years of using Nexuses we don't have any big problem with them.
Not well, we are small environment. But have opportunity scale the infrastructure in future is great. I hope that we some days move to the bigger topology.
We really like the vPC. We are mandatory connect every end devices over vPC. This makes upgrading really transparent for end users. We run also our storage traffic on Cisco Nexus 9000 Series and it is working reliable and non distruptive.
There is so many function, that I think no one can use all of them. But every one found the feature set which he will use. NX-OS CLI is really simillar to IOS well-known from Cisco routers and switches. So migration process is simple and fast.

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

We have only small environment so for us is great that we can converge all DC traffic to just 2 Cisco Nexus 9000 which do it all. So Cisco Nexus 9000 are great to small site and makes opportunity to move to Spine-Leaf bigger infrastructure in future.

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