We performed a comparison between Meraki SD-WAN and VMware SD-WAN based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: In this comparison, users of both solutions feel that the security deserves more attention. Meraki SD-WAN differs from the VMware SD-WAN solution because users say it has a seamless end-to-end setup that’s easier to deal with than other solutions. In addition, while Meraki SD-WAN users share mixed opinions on their experience with support, VMware SD-WAN users are happy overall.
"The solution is pretty easy to configure."
"The product does have a variety of features we can work with."
"This product has a simple configuration that can be accessed through a web interface or the API."
"The tool is easy to use."
"It is easy to monitor and manage."
"We have found the product to be quite scalable."
"The solution is very stable."
"The solution has many features available."
"Feature-wise, VMware SD-WAN is a really strong cloud web security product."
"The setup is very straightforward."
"There are 400 functionalities of the system."
"The product is consistent and is one of the best despite the competition."
"VMware has been chosen by many of our customers who do not want to do a lot of complex routing in their environment and want a very easy-to-use solution. The most valuable features are simple troubleshooting, Dynamic Multipath Optimization (DMPO), and cybersecurity."
"It is fairly similar to other solutions. It has the capability for testing link connectivity, which is its unique feature from a control perspective."
"VMware SD-WAN is scalable."
"One of the key use cases for VMware SD-WAN was assisting a customer in the industrial zone. They required virtualized servers and wanted to enable VMware SD-WAN to connect their sites in Japan or China. We assisted in building the system by integrating VMware servers and utilizing the Cisco suite."
"A run optimization feature is needed to reduce the bandwidth for any uploaded content."
"There is a point in a very large organization where you hit the VPN limit, or tunnel limit."
"The interface in the VPN management system can be a bit complex for users to understand."
"I'm not too familiar with the Meraki environment, but I suppose more automation is always a good thing."
"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."
"There are currently issues with NAT-Unfriendly situations on G4 networks that should be resolved."
"Some systems use some applications with the wrong data application. It bypasses the network, and you need to block that application on Meraki. We first try to put in passwords to do it and the network is not really safe. It's not 100%, the network can be bypassed."
"It's a matter of cost and expenses that we may take some issue with."
"I would like to see more features added to increase visibility."
"VMware SD-WAN can improve on the security features."
"VMware SD-WAN is complicated to configure."
"There are a number of customers we have that require a fully mashed SD-WAN on VeloCloud that is not available currently."
"Implementing VMware is much more difficult, time-consuming, and expensive than implementing Fortinet or Check Point."
"The initial setup could be simplified for beginners."
"The solution needs improvement on security features and should include two firewalls. Cloud VPN can’t support any link. The solution needs to also improve the availability of centralized internal management. It needs to have debug detection and Deep Packet Detection features as well. The documentation for VMware is also hard to find."
"Some of the service providers that use VeloCloud as their SD-WAN should be enabled to have better global visibility."
Meraki SD-WAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 61 reviews while VMware SD-WAN is ranked 4th in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 51 reviews. Meraki SD-WAN is rated 8.2, while VMware SD-WAN is rated 8.2. 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 SD-WAN writes "To fully utilize cloud vendors' hardware networking, Microsoft and VMware support everything". Meraki SD-WAN is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, Omada Cloud SDN, Cradlepoint NetCloud, Prisma SD-WAN and Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform, whereas VMware SD-WAN is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, Fortinet FortiGate, Cato SASE Cloud Platform, Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform and Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform.
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