Cisco Nexus 9364D-GX2A vs HPE Aruba CX 9300
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco Nexus 9364D-GX2A is a high-density 2U 400GbE spine switch engineered for hyperscale enterprise datacenters and multi-tenant AI supercomputing clouds. The Aruba CX 9300-32D is a high-density 1U 100/400GbE fixed-configuration spine and leaf switch engineered for hyperscale enterprise datacenters, AI clusters, and cloud service providers.
| Cisco Nexus 9364D-GX2A | HPE Aruba CX 9300 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | HPE |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Jun 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| Form factor | 2U fixed switch | 1U fixed 400G switch |
| Port density | 64x 400GbE QSFP-DD ports | — |
| Switching capacity | 51.2 Tbps system bandwidth | 25.6 Tbps bidirectional switching bandwidth |
| Forwarding rate | Up to 11.4 Bpps | Up to 5.68 Bpps |
| Form factor | 2U rack mount | 1U fixed datacenter switch |
| Power supplies | Up to four hot-swappable 3200W titanium power supplies | — |
| Encryption | Wire-speed MACsec-256 on all 64 ports | — |
| Modes | NX-OS standalone or Cisco ACI fabric | — |
| Ports | — | 32x 400GbE QSFP-DD ports (backward compatible with 100G/200G) |
| Datacenter features | — | EVPN-VXLAN, RoCEv2, PFC, ECN, and deep packet telemetry |
| Cooling and power | — | Hot-swappable 5+1 redundant fans and dual hot-swap power supplies |
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