We performed a comparison between Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and VMware NSX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Role-based access control and agentless architecture are the main features which may attract users."
"The most valuable feature is that it is easy to build playbooks. The learning curve is not that steep."
"I like the fact that Ansible is agentless."
"The most valuable features of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform are the agentless platform and writing the code is simple using the Yaml computer language."
"It increases our company's efficiency, automating all the simple tasks which used to take hours of somebody's time."
"One of the most valuable features is automation. We are doing automation infrastructure, which allows us to automate regular tasks. This solution provides us with a service catalog, like building new services and automating daily tasks."
"The easy-to-read syntax for YAML files and the interoperability between modules are valuable."
"Some colleagues and other companies use it and comment that it is easy to use, easy to understand, and offers good features."
"The most valuable feature of VMware NSX is the high bandwidth."
"I have found VMware NSX to be easy to use."
"The Distributed firewall is simple to add to the network and rules are easy to implement."
"Their technical support is very good. They help us figure out solutions when we have problems."
"VMware NSX is a very good solution. It's also a scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature of VMware NSX is the load balancing and routing of firewall rules. Many of the features are beneficial."
"The installation is straightforward, it took a couple of hours."
"Over the last two years, they've enhanced a lot, especially in regard to integration with OpenStack."
"At this time, I do not have anything to improve. What we struggle with is the knowledge base, but that is more about us having to go and find it and learn the platform on our own rather than an actual Ansible issue."
"The product could do a better job at building infrastructure."
"The solution is slightly expensive, and its pricing could be improved."
"Some of the modules in Ansible could be a bit more mature. There is still a little room for further development. Some performance aspects could be improved, perhaps in the form of parallelism within Ansible."
"It is a little slow on the network side because every time you call a module, it's initiating an SSH or an API call to a network device, and it just slows things down."
"It needs better documentation."
"Accessibility. Ansible uses a CLI by default. Those accustomed to it can find their way and adopt the YAML files easily over time. But, some users are more comfortable using UIs..."
"The job workflow needs to be worked on. It's not really clear to how you actually link things together. What they probably could do is provide an example workflow on how to stitch things together. I think that would be very helpful."
"VMware NSX provides a lot of automation capabilities, but there is still room for improvement."
"The next release of NSX should try to make Kubernetes and container integration a little easier than it is now. It's quite a complicated process."
"There could be an improvement in regards to security."
"They have some limitations in the firewall features as compared to the on-prem or dedicated hardware appliance. They can add more features, such as IPS and IDS, to the cloud firewall."
"It isn't easy to deploy."
"There were some issues with finance and other accounting."
"There is room for improvement in VMware NSX's workload management, particularly in the orchestration layer and in managing workloads across multiple clouds."
"The solution is complex but for the key user, it's not really complex. You just need to learn the standards and mechanics for your specific product."
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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 2nd in Network Automation with 62 reviews while VMware NSX is ranked 4th in Network Automation with 94 reviews. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform writes "Its agentless, making the deployment fast and easy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional". Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Azure DevOps and Microsoft Intune, whereas VMware NSX is most compared with Nutanix Flow Network Security, Illumio, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, Cisco ACI and HPE SDN. See our Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform vs. VMware NSX report.
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