We performed a comparison between Cisco Nexus and Extreme VDX [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell Technologies and others in LAN Switching."We've found their tech support to be excellent, especially in their willingness to resolve issues promptly."
"The scalability of the solution is well beyond anything I would ever need."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the power."
"The flexibility, how accurately the VPCs operate as well as the redundancy built into it with the VPCs are the most valuable features."
"The consolidation of all of the layer two ports into one rack is very valuable."
"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."
"We got increased bandwidth, faster performance, and newer software which has improved our organization."
"We used older versions of Cisco Cloud. The reason why we switched was just adapting with the times."
"Its simplicity and web interface were most valuable. I also liked the two-factor authentication."
"The most valuable feature of Extreme VDX is that we have had no problems and the solution's performance is excellent."
"The fabric of the solution and the management aspect are the solution's most valuable features."
"Ease-of-use and making things more human-readable is most important."
"The installation process lasted too long, taking 16 to 24 hours for full completion."
"I would like to see better collaboration with other, low-end devices."
"The solution has room for improvement in terms of the learning curve."
"The initial setup is always complex."
"They should make it easier to update the code on it."
"There may be many bugs which remain unresolved."
"I would like to see the integration of the products into something where it's seamless where an engineer never touches the switch again, never does CLI and you move to an application based network organization."
"The only problem is that at the moment it's an Extreme product and Extreme is not really pushing it. They have to make up for weak innovation and I'm not sure if they want to do that."
"Its scalability can be better. If possible, it can have Hyper POE. I am not sure if there is a fiber version."
"I would like the ability to stack with different switch brands."
Cisco Nexus is ranked 6th in LAN Switching with 101 reviews while Extreme VDX [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in LAN Switching with 3 reviews. Cisco Nexus is rated 8.4, while Extreme VDX [EOL] is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco Nexus writes " Offer high performance capabilities and enables efficient data transmission and processing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Extreme VDX [EOL] writes "A stable, scalable, and problem-free solution". Cisco Nexus is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Juniper QFX Series Switches, Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches and VMware NSX, whereas Extreme VDX [EOL] is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches.
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