Item: Cisco NX-OS
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco NX-OS

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the product for our data set. The idea there is that we need, well I guess the problem we face is that we have a lot of servers that need fast network communication. The idea is that using this platform, we achieve cut through switching and we have no downtime. The platform's robust, it ticks a lot of boxes around security, efficiency, scalability, some of the best out there.

Pros and Cons

Pros

I think one feature it does really well is the virtual port channel feature. We have a lot of switches around the place that don't necessarily do port channeling really well. The Nexus platform comes in using the VPC feature, we're able to have multiple servers and then user devices connected, which gives us a lot better resiliency and scalability. Availability, it's easy to use, easy to maintain. Downtime is almost minimal. I think without a particular feature we would be stuck, so it's very good.

Cons

I think one thing we'd like to see a bit more in the Nexus space is probably the troubleshooting features. So one would be the I perf feature and being able to test network traffic across links. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of really good features in terms of troubleshooting, but one particular one that we like to see is where we can test network traffic. We can make sure that we have good latency, we got good bandwidth utilization as well. For us that's a big one. We've got to use third party tools to do that. So if the NXOS platform can do it, that's one of the thing we've got to do.

Return on Investment

To me, there's nothing but positives for our business objectives when we use the Cisco Nexus platform. We need that reliability and we need resiliency, we need scalability, and we need a lot of uptime. And that's where the dashboard promotes all those things for us. And we see positives in terms of we don't need a hundred network engineers to manage the platform, we just need two. So it gives us a lot of room to grow in other areas of the business, but not just chasing our tails with silly problems and just a lot of headcounts.

Performance

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Scalability

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Security

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Key Insights

Do you think Cisco NX-OS delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Cisco NX-OS's feature set?

Yes

Did Cisco NX-OS live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Cisco NX-OS go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Cisco NX-OS again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

I think the Nexus platform is really well suited in the data center. When your requirements are zero downtime when you need, I guess just really fast communications. Where it's probably not suited, you probably wouldn't put it, it's probably not your home router. I definitely wouldn't recommend it, but sitting in the data center where it does its job, that's perfect. Have a place to put it.

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