cisco Nexus 3000 Nexus 3232C vs HPE Aruba CX 8325-48Y8C
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco Nexus 3232C is a high-density 1U 100GbE datacenter switch delivering 32 ports of wire-speed 40G/100G QSFP28. The HPE Aruba CX 8325-48Y8C is a high-density 1U top-of-rack data center and storage switch running ArubaOS-CX.
| cisco Nexus 3000 Nexus 3232C | HPE Aruba CX 8325-48Y8C | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | cisco | HPE |
| Status | end-of-sale | current |
| Released | Sep 2015 | Jan 2019 |
| Form factor | 1U fixed switch | 1U rack |
| Ports | 32x 40G/100G QSFP28 ports | 48x 25GbE SFP28 ports + 8x 100GbE QSFP28 uplink ports |
| Switching capacity | 6.4 Tbps / 3.3 Bpps forwarding throughput | 6.4 Tbps aggregate switching throughput |
| Form factor | 1U rack mount | 1U fixed-configuration datacenter switch |
| Latency | Cut-through switching with sub-microsecond port-to-port latency | — |
| Features | VXLAN EVPN, OpenFlow, Puppet, Chef, and Ansible automation | — |
| Port configurations | — | 48x 25GbE SFP28 + 8x 100GbE QSFP28, or 32x 100GbE QSFP28 |
| Forwarding capacity | — | Up to 2,000 Mpps |
| Datacenter features | — | EVPN-VXLAN, RoCEv2 RDMA, Priority Flow Control, ETS |
| Resiliency | — | Hot-swappable N+1 fans and redundant hot-swappable power supplies |
| Power supply | — | Dual hot-swappable AC or DC power supplies with N+1 redundant fans |
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