We performed a comparison between Big Switch Networks and VMware NSX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Big Switch Networks, Aviatrix and others in Software Defined Networking (SDN)."What I liked about the solution is the quick and easy way you can build a network data center fabric."
"From a security standpoint, the customer was able to better secure critical workloads while routing L2/L3 worked normally, giving them more confidence that they would be ready for any potential security incident mitigation or outage (DR)."
"The dashboard is comprehensive and easy to use."
"The solution is very stable and reliable."
"The microsegmentation is a good feature. You can segment details, products, or hardware information."
"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 feature of VMware NSX is the ease of use and its user friendly. For example, it is simple to change the subnet masks."
"One of the big improvements between the NSX-V and NSX-T is that in NSX-T you are no longer dependent on V-Center anymore."
"It provides a single pane of glass. You can do the switching, routing, load balancing, IPS, IDS, etc. Everything is under one umbrella. So, there is no vendor dependency over there."
"I think if I was to say something that could be improved, it would be a multi-data center nature of the implementation."
"I would like to see automation capabilities in the deployment process."
"The training costs a minimum of $3,000, which is expensive and should be reduced."
"In the next release, they should enhance the visual interface. With NSX-T, it's difficult to communicate between the public cloud and the container."
"VMware NSX only supports some platforms like KVM."
"One aspect that needs improvement is the need for further automation."
"The solution is only sold as part of a bundle and not as an individual product."
"It was stable for one year, there was no impact. In the last two months, we had two big incidents."
"We have been satisfied with the technical support. They were able to solve our problems. However, they could be faster."
Big Switch Networks is ranked 3rd in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 1 review while VMware NSX is ranked 2nd in Network Virtualization with 93 reviews. Big Switch Networks is rated 9.0, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Big Switch Networks writes "A flexible solution that can be integrated with third-party solutions whilst maintaining its automated nature". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional". Big Switch Networks is most compared with Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline, APCON, Cisco SD-WAN, Ixia Network Packet Brokers and Cisco Nexus Dashboard Data Broker, whereas VMware NSX is most compared with Nutanix Flow Network Security, Illumio, Cisco ACI, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Cisco Secure Workload.
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