cisco Nexus 9000 Nexus 93180YC-FX vs HPE Aruba CX 8325-48Y8C
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX is an enterprise 1U top-of-rack datacenter switch built on the Cisco Cloud Scale ASIC. The HPE Aruba CX 8325-48Y8C is a high-density 1U top-of-rack data center and storage switch running ArubaOS-CX.
| cisco Nexus 9000 Nexus 93180YC-FX | HPE Aruba CX 8325-48Y8C | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | cisco | HPE |
| Status | end-of-sale | current |
| Released | Jun 2017 | Jan 2019 |
| Form factor | 1U fixed switch | 1U rack |
| Downlink ports | 48x 10G/25G SFP28 optical/copper ports | — |
| Uplink ports | 6x 40G/100G QSFP28 ports | — |
| Switching capacity | 3.6 Tbps bidirectional bandwidth | 6.4 Tbps aggregate switching throughput |
| Forwarding rate | Up to 2.6 Bpps | — |
| Storage networking | Supports native Fibre Channel (16G/32G) and FCoE on downlink ports | — |
| Operating modes | Cisco NX-OS Mode or Cisco ACI Leaf Mode | — |
| Form factor | — | 1U fixed-configuration datacenter switch |
| 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 |
| Ports | — | 48x 25GbE SFP28 ports + 8x 100GbE QSFP28 uplink ports |
| Power supply | — | Dual hot-swappable AC or DC power supplies with N+1 redundant fans |
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