We performed a comparison between BMC TrueSight Network Automation 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 log audit and historical configurations are the most valuable feature."
"This product has helped us because we can now do many tasks at once. Rather than copy one file to one device, we can do an entire group at one time."
"The network security of BMC TrueSight Network Automation has been the best feature."
"It has the best automation features."
"The compliance management, patching, and OS upgrades are useful features."
"The most valuable feature of BMC TrueSight Network Automation is compliance management, configuration backup, and configuration management."
"The backup and restore configurations are really helpful for a number of network devices, as you can automate them, then know what changes have been done, who made the changes, etc. So, it's quite helpful in the network management area."
"We use it to back up configurations so the configuration management is valuable for us."
"It has reduced the number of people on the network team along with the system engineer involved in the security process. So, it is valuable."
"The most valuable feature of VMware NSX is the load balancing and routing of firewall rules. Many of the features are beneficial."
"The most valuable feature of VMware NSX is the DFW (distributed firewall)"
"The alert features are the most valuable."
"NSX is good in managing security or controlling the security and the access control for each single VM."
"Technically, VMware NSX is more advanced technology-wise when compared to others. We have been studying it and so far, so good. We know that the NSX product is superior when it comes to software virtualized networks. </p> <p>If you are looking to work with new and future technologies, then NSX is one of the best options. It costs less for power consumption since it will be a virtual network and not a pure physical network that consumes more energy."
"I have found VMware NSX to be easy to use."
"NSX extends Layer-2 scalability on Layer 3, covering the vRO and extending the capability on Layer 3 by decapsulating using a new mechanism. NSX-V was designed to use with VMware products and Success 360, providing more flexibility toward different levels of cloud, containers, and components. NSX-T gives you the ability to stretch your network across different view locations. If you have multiple sites, you can connect them using NSX-T."
"I believe there could be new features in terms of the latest technology."
"We've been working with BMC support in various ways such as to allow for the high-availability components to the TSIMs to work together. There have been issues there. We've seen randomness in how other pieces of the software work. Integration with the Presentation Server and the TSIMs has been a challenge. The ports that are required for HA to be utilized were not clearly documented anywhere. In fact, they still aren't documented online anywhere, even though we managed to pull it out of some of their support people."
"They need to have a single sign-on."
"There could be automated processes to retrieve the CVS and create a compliance tool."
"The product should be expanded to include more hardware, beyond Cisco and Juniper devices."
"BMC TrueSight Network Automation can improve by having a better UI. The overall quality of the UI could be better."
"For customized compliance, it takes some effort to implement things. If the device configuration is quite complex, then you have to do quite number of customizations in the DNA tool for out-of-the-box compliance. These regular expressions have to be modified based on the requirements of the compliance."
"I'd like to be able to get more devices into compliance with standards, but that means running additional rule sets and that takes time."
"In the future, the solution should be compliant with internet NIC."
"We had some complexities implementing into the other parts of a network."
"The setup is complex and should be made easier."
"One aspect that needs improvement is the need for further automation."
"If there are other solutions already in place, it can be difficult to implement."
"There are always issues integrating with Cisco."
"NSX could better integrate with open-source products. Of course, it integrates with some, but I know many people are uncomfortable deploying NSX with certain open-source solutions, such as Radar."
"It could be more user-friendly, but it's manageable. When we add a specific node to this particular NSX and the configuration changes, it won't push through the errors where required, but it'll accept it. However, while using it, we will have issues. It can also be more stable."
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BMC TrueSight Network Automation is ranked 7th in Network Automation with 10 reviews while VMware NSX is ranked 4th in Network Automation with 93 reviews. BMC TrueSight Network Automation is rated 7.8, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of BMC TrueSight Network Automation writes "Helps with patching, OS upgrade, and security vulnerability management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional". BMC TrueSight Network Automation is most compared with Cisco DNA Center and SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, whereas VMware NSX is most compared with Nutanix Flow Network Security, Illumio, Cisco ACI, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Cisco Secure Workload. See our BMC TrueSight Network Automation vs. VMware NSX report.
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