We performed a comparison between Meraki SD-WAN and VMware NSX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Networking (SDN) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."A lot of our customers really enjoy the Meraki Dashboard."
"The solution is easy to use."
"This product contributed to a huge benefit in our bottom line on operational costs."
"The auto VPN feature is important because it automates many tasks, making things simpler and faster. It helps with setting up devices and changing configurations without manual effort."
"It's made managing our client's networks extremely easy, regardless of my location. Being able to hop on my cell phone to see what's happening on a client's network makes everything much more manageable."
"The dashboard is user-friendly. It's very simple to use."
"Meraki can react fast to emerging trends."
"The most valuable features of this solution are load balancing and the security possibilities you have."
"The most valuable feature of VMware NSX is the ability to set up virtual networking environments."
"I have found the system to be very intuitive, functional, and they have great technology."
"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."
"Provides protection for virtual machines."
"Their technical support is very good. They help us figure out solutions when we have problems."
"I really like the management dashboard, the tailor-made assurance, the telemetry, and the ease of integration with all other solutions of VMware, such as vSphere."
"VMware NSX is a very good solution. It's also a scalable solution."
"NSX is good in managing security or controlling the security and the access control for each single VM."
"The solution lacks a certain amount of functionality and features."
"There is a point in a very large organization where you hit the VPN limit, or tunnel limit."
"I think they should enhance the security."
"Perimetral security for new requirements on financial networks and DRP systems, like SAP."
"With Meraki, it's more of a basic connectivity. It doesn't have all the feature sets that a Cisco SD-WAN solution has. It's limited."
"The solution lacks controllers."
"Meraki is more or less intelligent load balancing, although a lot of features are missing that our SD-WAN solutions will have."
"Overall, we are satisfied with the support, although I cannot state this unequivocally."
"There are sometimes mismatch in the control, the details and what you actually see on the transport note."
"The support from VMware NSX could improve."
"There are always issues integrating with Cisco."
"It might be nice to have more AI in the future."
"An area for improvement in VMware NSX is that it uses up more resources and is heavy on the network. What I'd like to see in the next release of the solution is more automation."
"VMware NSX could improve by having more compatibility with other none Window-based operating systems."
"They have to work more and more on the integration for public cloud services and have cyber security platform integration."
"I would like to see automation capabilities in the deployment process."
Meraki SD-WAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 61 reviews while VMware NSX is ranked 2nd in Network Virtualization with 94 reviews. Meraki SD-WAN is rated 8.2, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Meraki SD-WAN writes "Very stable security, great service, and the best for VPN management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional". Meraki SD-WAN is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN, Omada Cloud SDN and Cradlepoint NetCloud, whereas VMware NSX is most compared with Nutanix Flow Network Security, Illumio, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, Cisco ACI and Cisco Secure Workload. See our Meraki SD-WAN vs. VMware NSX report.
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VMware NSX is VMware's data center networking platform that supports among other things VxLAN that provides micro-segmentation to ensure optimal performance and security (both north/south and east/west). VMware SD-WAN solution is through their acquisition of Velocloud, which is the market leader in the space. Meraki SD-WAN is owned by Cisco. Meraki SD-WAN is a simple, quick to implement, all-in-one solution that is cloud managed and great for smaller offices. Cisco's higher end, feature rich SD-WAN solution is through their Viptela offering. Cisco's leading data center offering is ACI. Many SMBs are going with a managed service that use Cisco or VMware's solution. Cisco and VMware do not integrate well, so it is best to choose one vendor or the other.
VMware NSX is all about Software Defined Networking ie virtualizing the 7 layers of switches/routers that we know in the physical HW world. VMware is very successful with this technology acquired from NICERA. SD-WAN stands for Software-Defined WAN which is about networking but NOT at the local level, it is a wide area network. For this VMware made another acquisition which is VeloCloud. Cisco Meraki SD-WAN and VeloCloud are both in the magic quadrant and therefore competing.
Well, both products are very good but if you are looking for only SD-WAN Feafure than Cisco Meraki is the perfect solution: it's easy to manage, easy to deploy and deep insight at the packet level.
VMware NSX is the complete package of comprehensive features like Application Load Balancing, routing, switching, micro-segmentation and many more but at a cost! It's very easy to manage from a single pane of glass.
in a nutshell, if you want Application-Aware Load balancing and wan optimization which should be easy to manage and deploy than Cisco Meraki is the right product and if you are looking for a fully integrated solution and have a deep pocket then you should choose VMware NSX.
Meraki SD-WAN is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 11 reviews while VMware NSX is ranked 1st in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 19 reviews. Meraki SD-WAN is rated 8.0, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Meraki SD-WAN writes "Enables us to get valuable information from the system without having to go into every single device". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Enables us to identify problems before they manifest, but they should develop more advanced features". Meraki SD-WAN is most compared with VeloCloud, Cisco SD-WAN and Cradlepoint NetCloud, whereas VMware NSX is most compared with Cisco ACI, Cisco Tetration and Nutanix Flow.