We performed a comparison between Cisco Nexus and VMware NSX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two LAN Switching solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is a scalable, reliable, stable and efficient solution."
"The most valuable features are extensions and recorded scalability."
"The most valuable feature of the 7700 series is probably the multi-context subset VRS, which lets you use multi-VRS, multi-context, and also VPC setup, where you have two logical devices that are still separate in terms of management planes, but have shared, virtual core channels."
"It speeds up the network data transfer time."
"This solution has saved us both time and money because we now have the ability to control all of these telephony devices that are deployed nationwide."
"The most valuable feature is the automation that we can do with it."
"The most valuable features are the solution is robust, you are able to use it for fabric architecture as well as SPAN on exit with the controller."
"The ability to tenant-out the traffic and segment it, without having to get into separate physical hardware or trying to figure out VDCs manually, has been really powerful and extremely useful for us."
"The ability to scale from different clouds. At the moment, the scalability of the product is the number one thing that I saw."
"We like that everything is integrated."
"The security offered by VMware NSX is the most valuable, plus it's a feature-rich product that's straightforward to install and configure."
"The alert features are the most valuable."
"The most valuable features are security and dynamic routing."
"From a security standpoint, the customer was able to better secure critical workloads while routing L2/L3 worked normally, giving them more confidence that they would be ready for any potential security incident mitigation or outage (DR)."
"VMware NSX's overlay network is its most valuable feature, as it aligns with any network philosophy and allows for efficient addressing mechanisms. Additionally, the ability to extend the on-premise network into the provider space is beneficial. There are many features provided."
"Overall, for me, it's a good solution and has been working well."
"Multi contexts would be nice to have to separate different tenants logically and securely."
"One improvement needed is support for Multi-CAD scale that we were concerned about. We're not hitting any limits at this point."
"There are limitations on some of the lower level 9K solutions where you can't do the same things that you would normally be able to do, like for instance the number of static maps that you can configure on it."
"As a device meant to lead the processes related to networking and troubleshooting, I feel both aspects can be described as areas with certain concerns where improvements are required."
"It would be great if they could make the interface a little more user-friendly, but not trade power off for simplicity."
"I would like to see the integration of the products into something where it's seamless where an engineer never touches the switch again, never does CLI and you move to an application based network organization."
"They could improve on having different technologies between product models."
"The pricing must be improved."
"The integration with other brands is not the best."
"Some configuration maximums are limiting to the user, especially when it comes to the deployment of very, very large environments."
"Lacks integration with other solutions."
"I would like them to make integration with other vendors easier."
"The setup of the solution could be simplified."
"The solution can improve by making it more straightforward, easier to install and maintain in the environment."
"It still needs to grow. There are still some features that it doesn't do, like it doesn't do multicasting."
"Everybody needs a network to connect to, and VMware doesn't readily provide one."
Cisco Nexus is ranked 6th in LAN Switching with 101 reviews while VMware NSX is ranked 2nd in Network Virtualization with 94 reviews. Cisco Nexus is rated 8.4, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco Nexus writes " Offer high performance capabilities and enables efficient data transmission and processing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional". Cisco Nexus is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Juniper QFX Series Switches, Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches and Juniper QFabric, whereas VMware NSX is most compared with Nutanix Flow Network Security, Illumio, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, Cisco ACI and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. See our Cisco Nexus vs. VMware NSX report.
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