Thursday, December 19, 2019

Cisco Nexus vs Aruba for top of Rack

Looking for some opinions and real world experience here.

We're looking to implement top of rack 24 or 48 port 10gb SFP+ switches for a new Server Rack. Workloads are VMware servers + iSCSI storage + a few misc servers.

Switches will be supported by a separate 1gb/s ethernet switch stack for 1gb ports with 10gb/s SFP+ uplinks.

We're being quoted both Cisco and Aruba switches for this but aside from the differences in support (HP lifetime vs Cisco Smartnet) what is your real world experience like comparing these switches?

Aruba 8320 + 6300M series

Nexus 3524P-XL / 3548P-XL



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