Cisco Nexus Valuable Features
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Claudio Fedeli
Systems Area References Specialist at Fondazione Poliambulanza
There are no special problems at this moment. It runs efficiently. We aren't using special features on the switch.
Regarding maintaining infrastructure, we have achieved uniformity. For us, we have a time advantage because we know the solution, and the technological refresh is easier. The advantage is approximately 20%.
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The VPC feature of Cisco Nexus is great because it provides an active-active way of forwarding the traffic and avoids blocking any of the links. It also helps prevent STP loops, which is a valuable feature. Additionally, Cisco Nexus allows me to connect additional devices, such as FEX devices, when we need to extend services or connect physical servers. This capability of connecting additional factors as uplinks to Cisco Nexus is very beneficial. Overall, it has helped streamline network-related operations with its automation and API capabilities. It provides visibility and configuration options, aiding significantly in network management initiatives.
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Cisco Nexus provides a reliable switching platform for our data centers. It allows us to run dynamic routing protocols and helps improve network efficiency with features like MPLS.
Additionally, it supports integration with third-party security tools, which is advantageous for our network architecture. Security-wise, we utilize Cisco's solutions while exploring other vendor options too.
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Cisco Nexus
July 2025

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Letarik Terefe
Information Technology Division Director at Ethiopian Roads Administration
The most valuable feature of the solution is to segregate the network. Cisco Nexus is effective since we can segregate the VLANs properly. I have probably been able to understand that it is an effective tool.
Cisco Nexus and Cisco Catalyst have processing power and offer good utilization of Cisco devices. Cisco Catalyst is defined on Cisco SD-WAN and Palo Alto. The processing power of Cisco Catalyst is good compared to that of Cisco Nexus. Additional features are available on Cisco Catalyst, and its ports offer higher speeds than those of Cisco Nexus. Cisco Catalyst on the cloud offers support in the areas attached to switches and interfaces, along with ports that are faster compared to Cisco Nexus.
The in-service software upgrade (ISSU) feature is quite valuable. It allows us to make changes and test them before putting them into the production environment. There are many other useful features as well, such as programmability, modularity, and virtualization.
View full review »The most valuable feature of Nexus is its high throughput with no latency. This is why most clients prefer to integrate Nexus into their data centers. It is very scalable due to the ability to configure numerous virtual switches within the same chassis. The solution is also very stable, making it highly preferable for data centers, particularly in banking. The integration capabilities with various tools for management further amplify its utilities.
View full review »The solution's most valuable feature is its ability to handle big data, involving a large volume of data ranging from 3,00,000 to 9,00,000. I have experience with three types of switches from Cisco Nexus, and I know that they can handle lots of data. You can use the features you want and stop the features you don't want.
We are using the vPC and FEX. The integrations are valuable.
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Yucheol Seo
IT Manager at DN Solutions
The product has a stable and strong server panel switch.
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Florin Jalencu
IT Specialist at E.ON
The solution is very easy to use.
It can implement with 40-gigabit plus technologies and gives us enormous speed. What was the one gigabit per second ten years ago, is now 10 gigabits per second. The future is likely to be 400 gigabits per second. Cisco is on its way there.
The huge capacity of Nexus is excellent.
All the frames are managed on the assets, not on software, which makes things easier. It is essentially dedicated circuit hardware, an integrated circuit for certain tasks.
We can see the functionality of the switches. The policies are very clear.
The mean time between failures and TBF value is very, very high on Cisco Nexus.
The initial setup is quite simple and straightforward.
View full review »The most valuable feature of the Cisco Nexus is agility.
View full review »The solution has good stability, so the technical team, the people handling the data center, are very comfortable with it and can push some policies as per the applications. So, I feel the solution to be okay. It really supports the management perspective. While it may not add value for the users, it enables the administrators to work freely. I am referring to the port network switches.
View full review »The solution seems to be quite stable. We have had to upgrade recently as we were on an engineering release of code, and we don't tend to have problems with the Nexus.
You can scale the product.
Technical support seems to be okay.
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Avelino Fernandes
IT specialist at IGFEJ
The interface is easy to use. It is not much different from iOS, but you can use it on a larger scale in data centers.
View full review »The redundancy and the vPC are the most valuable features. We can integrate two switches together for file transfers; that is, we can operate two switches as one. This is because the network can be shared via a vPC trunk, particularly for devices that are not critical for redundancy.
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MartinYu
Senior Network Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Cisco Nexus introduced VDC, Virtual Device Context, meaning the person has a single physical box, usually one pair, for dynamic purposes. This pair allows one to create multiple logical switches, for totally different functioning. One could be for production, another for UAT, a third for Dev. Yet, we are talking about a physically single box. It has also introduced VPC, Virtual Port Channel, which allows for more redundancy and flexibility.
View full review »When it comes to data centers, Cisco Nexus is the best.
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Yudi Aritonang
Co-Founder and CEO at PT Eugenea Kreasi Utama
Cisco Nexus is a very powerful switch.
We don't have any problems with Nexus, ever. It's very stable. We have been, for almost five years, using Nexus, and it has been virtually problem-free.
It's smooth to use and very, very user-friendly.
The GUI is very, very easy to maintain.
It's very easy to log in.
The reporting is quite good. It's easy to understand.
Technical support has been very, very helpful and they offer good SLAs.
The scalability of the product is very good.
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Husam Kabaha
CTO at Mechkar
It's easy to use.
View full review »Its easy management is most valuable. It is easy to use, easy to manage, stable, and very reliable.
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Wilhelm Farrugia
Manager IP Core and Transmission Networks at GO PLC
From a data center implementation, with respect to competition from your data, there isn't really a product recovery for the different tests other than Cisco Nexus. For example, if you take Multi-tenancy for the data center, it's something which, I think, only Cisco has. There are some implementations from HP, but I think it's limited there.
View full review »The 9000 series works really well in the spine-and-leaf architecture and gives you capabilities up to 400 gig.
The most valuable feature is performance. Not many customers are using the 400 gig speed yet, but you do have flexibility as if you're going to run the ports at 10 gig, 40 gig, or 100 gig. That port flexibility is really important.
I find all the data center features to be most valuable, such as VXLAN and OTV. The ACI and FEX connectivity are good features too. Cisco is refining the features all the time and you can see this in all the different vendors.
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Jon Cole
Network Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
I like the supportability because it's Cisco. I like the fact that they are a well-supported product.
I am comfortable with the operating system and I like the regularity of them.
They are quite straightforward and easy to develop.
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Omer Mohammed
Senior System Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The storage connection is very good. We use the bonding license. It is is extremely stable. We don't have any issues with it whatsoever.
The initial setup is pretty easy.
View full review »Quality is really the most valuable feature. Being able to interconnect components between different clusters around the globe gives us the flexibility we need. That pretty much makes what we do possible.
View full review »We leverage Cisco DCNM a lot, which allows us to automate. We're working toward allowing the server administrators to configure their own ports for their new servers that they're spinning up in the data center.
View full review »The most valuable feature of this solution is the ease of management.
The most valuable feature of this solution is that it scales well. It supports a lot of servers. We don't have to come up with different designs for anything. That's the best part about it.
View full review »The most valuable feature of this solution is its ability to grow into ACI.
View full review »The most valuable benefit of this solution is the ability to use all the different features like VX LAN (Virtual Extensible LAN) and PPC. We use the solutions in the data center and on the LAN side. For all intents and purposes, we were kind of hoping that the 9000s would take on the form of multiple contacts and VDCs (Virtual Device Contexts) like the 7000s have, but we haven't seen that capability come out yet.
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Timothy Patrick
Senior Network Engineer at Advanced Drainage Systems
The most valuable feature is its flexibility. You can put different blades in it to give scalability, but it is older technology.
View full review »The biggest benefit to this solution is a high port density with high bandwidth. A big strength is the high bandwidth backplane, line rate speeds, and switching and routing packets.
View full review »The most valuable feature of this solution is its stability. We don't have any problems with them, ever. It doesn't matter how much we hammer them or load stuff up on them, they never give us any trouble. I cannot say that for many other platforms that I operate, so I am really pleased with that aspect.
The ability to troubleshoot on this model is very good, and far beyond what you get on a different model. We have had some weird issues in our data center, and this has helped us in that regard. Sometimes you need a tech to help you with it because it's a little too complex, but at least you can see the data. I wish I could say that about, pretty much, anything else I have.
View full review »The most valuable features are extensions and recorded scalability.
View full review »The most valuable features are the solution is robust, you are able to use it for fabric architecture as well as SPAN on exit with the controller.
View full review »Its low latency is most valuable. Its performance is good, and it is also very stable.
View full review »We have found that logical tenant segregation to be the most useful feature.
View full review »It's easy to use, and the performance is great. I like the VRF IP route for the network. It's five minutes of work.
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Yusuf Mian
Chief Technology Officer at Interlink Engineering Pvt Ltd
Cisco Nexus meets all of our requirements.
View full review »The most valuable feature of the 7700 series is probably that it lets you have multi-context, and also VPC setup, where you have two logical devices that are still separate in terms of management planes but have shared virtual port channels.
View full review »It provides a very flexible connection to a server. When you go into history and the VPC, it provides a very flexible connection from it. Once a server goes down I can handle it easily. So the network actually keeps quality even if onsite it is down.
View full review »The most valuable features are the great performance, high availability and easy administration.
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Dan Newman
Principal Engineer 2 at Charter Communications, Inc.
The most valuable features of Cisco Nexus are the performance, flexibility, configuration, and cost. It's not a traditional pricing model from Cisco. They've offered our company a considerable reduction in price. That makes Cisco Nexus now very competitive with other vendors.
View full review »Although it could be better, you can get the granularity depending on the amount of time that you drill into it.
View full review »The flexibility, how accurately the VPCs operate as well as the redundancy built into it with the VPCs are the most valuable features.
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Zaki Shah
Sr. Data Center Network Engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
It's easy to use.
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Ricardo Mancilla
Solutions Architect at ABS Technology
The most valuable feature of this solution is the capacity of the switches. One of the main advantages of going with the Nexus 9000 is that it can do advanced routing and segmentation with VLANs.
The most valuable feature is the capacity for the number of customers that we can get onto it.
The most valuable feature of the solution is network visibility. It touches all of the switches. It becomes the core switch. All of the devices connected to it route towards it and so we're able to see all of the devices.
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Cody Boelens
Network Administrator at St Ambrose University
We use Cisco Nexus as a switch that houses all of our fiber connections.
View full review »The most valuable feature is the automation that we can do with it.
View full review »The most valuable features are that it is easy to use, provides stability, easy to configure, low latency, and it provides communication to the data center.
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Scott Black
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable feature for us is its speed capacity.
View full review »The most valuable feature of the Cisco Nexus solution is the default vPC functionality. We can do maintenance with it. We can do core channeling up to the switches and we can manage them as opposed to working on a stack. We don't have to bring the whole thing down and back up. We can reduce downtime.
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Charles Lacasse
Network Analyst at Govt of Canada
The most valuable feature is the ease of management for network administration.
View full review »This is a powerful device and I can get good bandwidth.
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Andy Deshmukh
Network Engineer at a university with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable feature is the integration with the virtual switches of our UCS platform. It provides a lot of visibility from the ACI console. The ability to tenant-out the traffic and segment it, without having to get into separate physical hardware or trying to figure out VDCs manually, has been really powerful and extremely useful for us.
View full review »The most valuable feature is the HSRP (Hot Standby Router Protocol).
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Khalid Mustafa
Service Validation Engineers at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The most valuable features of this solution are scalability and throughput. We are extending the VLAN to multiple data centers.
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Tyler Kongs
Network Engineer at Archer Daniels Midland
The most valuable feature is the Bluetooth console.
View full review »The most valuable features are the flexibility of the blade infrastructure, as well as the FEX integration.
View full review »The most valuable features are the access layer security, OpenConfig, and OpenFlow.
View full review »The most valuable feature is the high performance.
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Wendy Guest
Network Analyst at Marion County
The most valuable feature is the ability to integrate with other Cisco security products.
View full review »The most valuable feature is that it is high-density, ten-gig.
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Kervin Aterrado
Network Engineer at Table Mountain
The most valuable feature of this solution is the power.
View full review »This is a very feature-rich solution, but the most valuable feature is flexibility.
The interface is as user-friendly as you can make it.
View full review »The most valuable feature of this solution is its ease of use. I do have some issues finding the correct commands, at times, but I am familiar with the command line interface.
View full review »I like a lot about this solution. They are very high-performance switches and they are made for lossless data, so they're a good play in the customer environment.
View full review »The most valuable feature of this solution is its reliability.
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Nate Cielieska
Network Engineer at solutions4networks
The most valuable feature of this solution is user configurability.
View full review »We are a Cisco shop. We have continuity with Cisco, which provides a very high-end solution. Converting into digital services, we're in a position to provide lifecycle management.
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Roberto Castillo
Internetwork Solution Engineer at OPLK
The most valuable features are the high availability and the basic configurations that we can implement.
View full review »The most valuable feature is its reliability.
View full review »The most valuable features of the solution are capacity and scalability.
View full review »The most valuable feature of Cisco Nexus is modularity. It's like the Swiss Army knife of switches. It makes the switches. It can do everything if you have enough money.
If you pay for all the features, you can do almost anything you want to do with it.
View full review »Cisco Nexus has good overall reliability and configuration options. It is fairly straightforward to access the switching platforms.
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Bala Panchanathan
Director at Wipro Technologies
The most valuable features for us are schedule management, analytics, and Assurance software.
View full review »The most valuable feature of this solution is stability. We have a pretty large campus. We need the redundancy options and diverse paths that are required. Also, some of the capacity that the Cisco Nexus has.
The most valuable feature of this solution is its stability.
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Matt Bright
Architect at CenturyLink
The most valuable feature is the flexibility that it has with the layer-two switching.
Its speed, as well as the ability to expand it, are also very valuable.
View full review »The most valuable features of this solution are scalability and reliability.
Scalability is important as the business moves forward. As the number of bank branches grows, the traffic grows. You need to rely on a solid Cisco product in the data center to support this.
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Danish Rizvi
Senior Network Engineer at Halliburton Company
The most valuable feature is stability because in a data center you really need that.
The consolidation of all of the layer two ports into one rack is very valuable.
View full review »The most valuable feature of this solution is its speed.
View full review »The most valuable feature for us is the VRF (Virtual Routing and Forwarding) support. We are using it in the aggregation layer.
View full review »The most valuable feature is the flexibility that we have had, working with our network team to get voice implemented.
View full review »We value the combination of performance and experience with Legacy Cisco switching products, including Nexus.
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Roger Sherman
Network Engineer at American Honda Motor
The most valuable feature of Cisco Nexus is speed compared to what you would get from a Catalyst Series switch.
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Todd Neiert
Network Services Manager at Allen Systems Group
The most valuable feature of this solution is the durability.
View full review »The most valuable features are that it is easy to manage and it is pretty stable.
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Michael Ozorowsky
Network Engineer at Tampa General Hospital
VPC is the most valuable feature for us.
View full review »For the Nexus solution features that we use most are the VDCs (Virtual Device Contexts) which are the virtual domain, and VPC for trunking and aggregation.
View full review »The most valuable feature of this solution is the hardware engine itself.
View full review »With the invention of the Tablet, the world of Desktop and laptops have probably returned to the Stone Age.
With the advent of Nexus 7, Google's new wonder Tablet, Amazon's Kindle Fire has got a tough competitor.
Nexus 7 is not only one of the best among 7-inch Tablets, but it is also threatening to oust 10-inch ones off the market as well.
With a beautifully engineered hardware and Android OS, Nexus 7 is definitely a choice worth making.
The product is a joint venture between Google and Asus. It has a powerful Nvidia Tegra3 1.2 GHz quad core processor that makes it lightning fast.
Its HD graphics can also make other products jealous.
Features like Voice Search and Google Now Cards are interfaced with new cutting-edge Android OS Jelly Bean.
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Tawanda Kavayi
Software Developer at Nebula
The product is easy to use.
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Cisco Nexus
July 2025

Learn what your peers think about Cisco Nexus. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: July 2025.
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