Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI) vs. Cisco Nexus Series Switches

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI)

183 Reviews and Ratings

Cisco Nexus Series Switches

241 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cisco ACI	Score7.5 out of 10	N/A	Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is network virtualization technology.	N/A
Cisco Nexus Series Switches	Score9.2 out of 10	N/A	Cisco Nexus is a series of network switches.	N/A

Pricing

Cisco ACI

Cisco Nexus Series Switches

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Pricing Offerings
Cisco ACI	Cisco Nexus Series Switches
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No setup fee

No setup fee

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Key User Insights
	Cisco ACI	Cisco Nexus Series Switches
Considered Both Products	Cisco Verified User Chose Cisco ACI We use Cisco Nexus Series Switches on Cisco ACI. It helps to make new and easy connections. It will better if we can use Generative Artificial Intelligence with them.. We manage many domains in one place. We manage more than one company’s network, so Cisco ACI is really helpful. Incentivized Helpful? Nishant Jangale Head of Engineering in Engineering at Rakuten Symphony Deutschland (Telecommunications, 501-1000 employees) Chose Cisco ACI Very competitive in terms of form factor and port density. Incentivized Helpful? Halit Oner network engineer in Information Technology at ziraat technology (Banking, 10,001+ employees) Chose Cisco ACI To manage easily Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco ACI Switching from NX OS to ACI OS made configuration easier after initial migration and getting to know ACI principles. There are no L2 loops and configuration mistakes as often as it used to be. There is only one management console, and policies are easily reused. The “Submit” … Incentivized Helpful? Rodrigo Marchina Soares Senior Consultant in Information Technology at CAE Technology Services (Computer Networking, 51-200 employees) Chose Cisco ACI I haven't tested any other vendor to compete against ACI. Incentivized Helpful? Melvin Harper ISD Engineer III in Information Technology at Navy Federal (Banking, 10,001+ employees) Chose Cisco ACI ACI makes data center deployments easier, upgrades, overall simpler functionality. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco ACI We have made the decision for ACI over NX-OS for the following: - no more self-made configuration of the underlay network - ease of scaling out port capacity Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco ACI Because it was quilcky to install and needed less people for the first install and automation. If we had the time I think we select the nxos with a vxlan fabric and automation like ansible but it needed to much time. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco ACI Compared to NSX, Cisco ACI has a lot to offer out-of-the-box without the need to use extra tools or products that need to be installed. Incentivized Helpful? James Molnar Network Engineer in Information Technology at Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, PLLC (Legal Services, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Cisco ACI AWS is similar to ACI and has some nicer features, but they do work well together to provide the hybrid cloud model for redundancy. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco ACI ACI is more mature compare to other cloud and fabric products. It's proven on the Cisco nxos and the engineers have the flexibility of knowing the system. Compared to the competition, TAC support is better for Cisco and the documentation covers good use cases. Power to extend … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco ACI Lower cost than FabricPath, maybe a little bit cheaper than Arista when we looked into it. I wasn't involved in the initial purchasing of ACI, and was kind of against it at first, but the product has evolved a lot over the last few years and I now believe that it can … Incentivized Helpful?	Cisco Verified User Chose Cisco Nexus Series Switches We just started deploying Cisco ACI to replace our Cisco Nexus infrastructure. The ACI platform allows us to do more with fewer devices, while expanding on features such as changing the Virtual Device Contexts to a better multi tenant platform. Additionally, we are able to have … Incentivized Helpful? Nilman Ferreira Sales Engineer in Sales at Logicalis (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Cisco Nexus Series Switches It's very convenient to use these solutions with CVDs. Incentivized Helpful? Kaan Dağlı Datacenter Network Senior Specialist in Information Technology at Turk Telekom (Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees) Chose Cisco Nexus Series Switches We are using both Arista 7280 and Cisco Nexus 9300 devices. Arista switches have deep buffer features and helps us for handling the big data packets. But these switches are a little bit more expensive than nexus 9300 switches. And also Arista 7050x Series can be competitive … Incentivized Helpful? Joacim Wicander Data Center Architect in Information Technology at Conscia Sweden (Information Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Cisco Nexus Series Switches Easier configuration, no need for special stack cables when using multi-chassis ether channel and extremely high speed interfaces (1/10/25/40/50/100/400/800 Gbit/s). Cisco Nexus Series Switches is capable of both being a L2 switch and L3 switch at the same time. Possibility to … Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Cisco ACI	Cisco Nexus Series Switches
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (83 ratings)	8.9 (107 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.2 (5 ratings)	9.9 (8 ratings)
Usability	7.1 (7 ratings)	9.0 (36 ratings)
Availability	9.1 (2 ratings)	8.2 (2 ratings)
Performance	9.1 (9 ratings)	7.5 (4 ratings)
Support Rating	8.1 (10 ratings)	8.8 (10 ratings)
In-Person Training	8.2 (1 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.0 (4 ratings)	8.2 (4 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (3 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	- (0 ratings)	7.5 (2 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (2 ratings)
Product Scalability	8.6 (9 ratings)	7.5 (4 ratings)
Professional Services	- (0 ratings)	7.5 (2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	- (0 ratings)	7.5 (3 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	- (0 ratings)	7.5 (3 ratings)