My experience with Cisco Nexus Series Switches
September 22, 2025

My experience with Cisco Nexus Series Switches

Chourouk Debiche | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Nexus 7000 Series

Modules Used

  • Cisco Nexus Dashboard

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Nexus Series Switches

Cisco Nexus Series Switches is an advanced data center networking software. Introduction of the software in our organisation has played a crucial role in enhancing both performance and sustainability. The software is designed for all sizes of enterprises and provides future proof networking infrustructure. It has very programmable tools and APIs that ensure robust and scalable network foundation.

Pros

  • The software ensures optimised performance and promotes data centre operations savings us both cost and time.
  • It is very customisable and allows full stack programmability.
  • Software usability and ease in integration with third parties.

Cons

  • The software is not user-friendly. Alot of training us required for new users.
  • Software customer services providers are very unreliable. They take so much time to respond to queries.
  • The product has input power issues.
  • Use of the software in our organisation has provided us with very stable network thus eliminating our systems downtimes.
  • The product has enabled us to easily identify loops in the network.
  • It has helped us in managing our network infrastructure easily and provided us with a stable bandwidth.
The software makes network management easy.
Product configuration of the interfaces is simple.
Use of the product allows basic configuration Web GuI.
Device rebooting time is less compared to other similar softwares.
Cisco Nexus Series Switches provides modern security features like DHCP Snooping and port security.

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

The software ensures quick detection of change in network.
GUI of the software is better compared to that of other products models.
Initial software configuration is easy and general device functionality is outstanding.
The product supports POE which powers our access points and IP phones.
It has robust security and support.

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