We performed a comparison between Arista Networks Platform and VMware NSX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Ethernet Switches solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Arista Networks Platform is comfortable, easy to deploy, and easy to manage, with non-blocking technology. Additionally, it has a useful CloudVision platform and automation capabilities."
"The most valuable feature is the Linux shell, which is useful for troubleshooting or capturing traffic."
"The user-friendly policy manager lets us apply different controls for various user groups easily."
"The solution is very stable."
"It's an extremely reliable platform for the network switches we use."
"The solution has good load latency. They're the market leader in this aspect right now."
"It provides telemetry and visibility for many metrics that are not supported by most of the other vendors. Out of the box, no third party solutions are needed."
"The best part is the single operating system that they have. Regardless of your model, it's the same operating system functioning across the board, which means you don't have to worry about backward compatibilities between your older switches and the new ones that you deploy."
"It is easy to implement it."
"The most valuable features of VMware NSX are the tight integration with the VMware Hypervisor natively and the management console. We have a lot of other integrations where you are able to see the virtual machine's end-to-end visibility."
"I am impressed with the tool's protection."
"Some of the key features I find most valuable are the highly graphical user interface, virtualization of networks, and Microsoft application compatibility. It has all the functionality that we require."
"Provides flexibility to deploy and have network virtualization on different types of firewalls."
"VMware NSX is a very good solution. It's also a scalable solution."
"It operates on a logical level, providing a comprehensive and centralized way to manage your network resources."
"The microsegmentation is great, and the security team thinks it is great."
"Arista Networks Platform should focus on improving the compatibility or integration with Cisco solutions."
"The solution needs to accommodate new features."
"The solution is quite expensive. One of the negative aspects of it is the pricing."
"They need to enhance their code and their EOS. They need to improve some security features, and there are quite a number of bugs in their system. So, they need to work on that piece. In the next release, we need to have a modular feature. Instead of providing an integrated solution, they should go for something modular. They need to come up with modular highly scalable models. Even at the chassis layer, I want to see some improvement."
"The product fails to offer functions related to cloud orchestration, making it in areas where improvements are required."
"The solution needs to improve their product range."
"The community is good but is not good enough. It still needs to grow more."
"Something that you will often hear about Arista products is that the price is a bit too high and, like with Cisco, we sometimes have problems with our customers because of its pricing."
"It lacks full knowledge of physical side of the network topology."
"Its licensing model could be VM based."
"There is room for improvement in VMware NSX's workload management, particularly in the orchestration layer and in managing workloads across multiple clouds."
"VMware NSX provides a lot of automation capabilities, but there is still room for improvement."
"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."
"We have been satisfied with the technical support. They were able to solve our problems. However, they could be faster."
"We've have had good and bad experiences with them. We don't always find them to be so impactful. Sometimes the support guy isn't so on top of resolving the issue and it can take a while to sort out."
"The setup of the solution could be simplified."
Arista Networks Platform is ranked 13th in Ethernet Switches with 21 reviews while VMware NSX is ranked 2nd in Network Virtualization with 93 reviews. Arista Networks Platform is rated 8.6, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Arista Networks Platform writes "Affordable for enterprise-sized companies". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional". Arista Networks Platform is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Cisco Nexus, Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches and Aruba Switches, whereas VMware NSX is most compared with Nutanix Flow Network Security, Illumio, Cisco ACI, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Cisco Secure Workload. See our Arista Networks Platform vs. VMware NSX report.
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