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."This product has improved the way our organization functions in the way that the rack-based design allowed us to eliminate chassis-based designs. The chassis design is more complicated to manage and maintain in field operations."
"Technical support has been very, very helpful and they offer good SLAs."
"Solid product, communications and support from a well-known dependable company."
"This solution streamlines how we have to configure things because we can do everything from one device, whereas if we had individual devices we would have to go to each one and configure them manually."
"The most valuable feature is the automation that we can do with it."
"From a data center implementation, with respect to competition from your data, there isn't really a product recovery for the different tests other than Cisco Nexus. For example, if you take Multi-tenancy for the data center, it's something which, I think, only Cisco has. There are some implementation from HP, but I think it's limited there."
"We leverage Cisco DCNM a lot, which allows us to automate."
"When it comes to data centers, Cisco Nexus is the best."
"The product has valuable features for security and network extension."
"One significant advantage of VMware NSX is the ability to provide advanced security at the micro-level, focusing on securing applications and workloads rather than just the network structure or virtualization-based network security."
"We like that everything is integrated."
"I am impressed with the tool's protection."
"The ability to scale from different clouds. At the moment, the scalability of the product is the number one thing that I saw."
"The most valuable feature of VMware NSX is the ability to set up virtual networking environments."
"We secured our organisation with Micro-segmentation."
"NSX's stand-out function is the distributed firewall. The firewall system is just top-notch, and I haven't seen another solution like it."
"In the next release of the solution, I would like to see varying integration between VRF (Virtual Routing and Forwarding) instances so we can integrate BGB into different VRFs in a more organized way. We have some issues with tunnels and VRFs."
"I don't really deal with the pricing but I know that it's not cheap."
"If we could get some more automation integrated into it, it would make it easier."
"There is some room for improvement when it comes to the frequency on the network."
"There may be many bugs which remain unresolved."
"The initial setup wasn't simple or user-friendly."
"The GUI interface could be improved to make it more user friendly."
"Areas in which the solution have room for improvement are the interface, management, and reporting."
"Everybody needs a network to connect to, and VMware doesn't readily provide one."
"It still needs to grow. There are still some features that it doesn't do, like it doesn't do multicasting."
"They could do more with cloud management."
"The price is rather high."
"The first time setting it up was difficult."
"It isn't easy to deploy."
"VMware NSX can improve the migration tools from the older environments to the new environment. For example, the NSX-V has become a legacy solution, it's out of support, but customers are able to keep using it. For migration purposes, it's better for them to provide a proper tool. It will be easy to migrate from an old environment to a new one."
"Traffic flow introspection topology visibility is definitely needed because at the moment, NSX-T lacks in this area."
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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