We performed a comparison between SaltStack 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."The ability to programmatically describe the desired state of a single, or an entire fleet of servers, on-premises, and in a cloud environment."
"We monitor the configurations against CIS standards. We run CIS benchmarks and maintain configurations with higher CIS values for each server."
"SaltStack has given us the ability to deal with systems at scale and rectify issues at scale."
"The automation functionality has been most valuable. With a click of a button, we are able to automate provisioning, the build of new hardware and apply patches. These are all extremely important and differentiated tasks that can be automated in SaltStack."
"It is a highly stable solution."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to provide environmental security."
"I want to build automation that is intelligent, part of the fabric of our environment, and is somewhat self-sustaining. I think SaltStack can help me do this."
"During our experience, the solution has been stable."
"From a distributed firewall perspective, it's a solid solution."
"It gives more security and micro-segmentation. It helps to set network configurations in an easy way."
"NSX gives us the ability to put our network, NSX, onto any network there is, which allows us not to have to go to the network team to create networks our VLANs for networks."
"The most valuable features are security and dynamic routing."
"The interface is intuitive enough."
"Their technical support is very good. They help us figure out solutions when we have problems."
"The most valuable feature of VMware NSX is the DFW (distributed firewall)"
"SaltStack's features are minimal."
"There is a little bit of pain when it comes to libraries and what is needed to run the product."
"A hardened set of tests would be much appreciated."
"Its configuration process could be better."
"Web UI."
"This solution could be integrated with more hardware for an improved offering."
"It is difficult to set up."
"They have to work more and more on the integration for public cloud services and have cyber security platform integration."
"The feature it can improve is essentially application-based load balancing with intelligent load distribution for applications that require redundancy and high availability."
"Going through and getting more features sets from the routing protocols is definitely necessary for the future."
"Traffic flow introspection topology visibility is definitely needed because at the moment, NSX-T lacks in this area."
"It takes time to do the initial setup. It is a bit slow, which is surprising."
"One drawback is this solution requires a lot of other products in the VMware ecosystem to have a full end-to-end operation orchestration monitoring. You have to buy a lot of add-ons to fully utilize the functionality."
"The setup of the solution could be simplified."
"If there are other solutions already in place, it can be difficult to implement."
SaltStack is ranked 6th in Network Automation with 33 reviews while VMware NSX is ranked 4th in Network Automation with 93 reviews. SaltStack is rated 8.2, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SaltStack writes "Orchestration tool that powers automation of processes with the click of a button". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional". SaltStack is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Configuration Manager, HashiCorp Terraform, Red Hat Satellite and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, whereas VMware NSX is most compared with Nutanix Flow Network Security, Illumio, Cisco ACI, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Cisco Secure Workload. See our SaltStack vs. VMware NSX report.
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