We performed a comparison between Cisco Catalyst Switches and VMware NSX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two LAN Switching solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product’s scalability and performance are valuable."
"As far as technology is concerned, Cisco improves the client-to-client business."
"We find the product very easy to configure."
"The product is convenient to deploy."
"It helps keep our network connections in a healthy state."
"These switches are very stable. We haven't had any problems. We also have some old switches that are working for almost ten years."
"Their technical support is good, one of the best in the industry."
"It is a very scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable features are ease of use and user interface."
"The dashboard is comprehensive and easy to use."
"The security offered by VMware NSX is the most valuable, plus it's a feature-rich product that's straightforward to install and configure."
"It operates on a logical level, providing a comprehensive and centralized way to manage your network resources."
"I have found the solution to be stable."
"We are happy with the scalability."
"Provides flexibility to deploy and have network virtualization on different types of firewalls."
"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."
"Facilitating and adapting the security updates would be a good improvement, because usually it requires to reboot the router to get them"
"We'd like Cisco to integrate with other solutions, including their own."
"Cisco is the most expensive product."
"The only improvement I would like to see with Cisco Catalyst Switches is the pricing."
"Currently, Catalyst is completely proprietary with Cisco. They should have programmability options, through open-source controllers."
"The solution could improve by allowing administrators to create scripts to help automate processes to make tasks easier."
"The price is high and it should be improved."
"It is kind of expensive."
"They have to work more and more on the integration for public cloud services and have cyber security platform integration."
"We would like tenant segmentation available in future releases."
"It's not feature-rich."
"The solution is quite complex. You need to keep your thinking cap on and know what you are doing: Go to the training and listen to the solution architects when they come in because they have a lot of knowledge."
"It might be nice to have more AI in the future."
"We have done three installations and we have not had any critical issues. The time it took for the installation was approximately two days. However, they should provide better documentation."
"It needs to be cheaper."
"It could be cheaper!"
Cisco Catalyst Switches is ranked 1st in LAN Switching with 171 reviews while VMware NSX is ranked 2nd in Network Virtualization with 93 reviews. Cisco Catalyst Switches is rated 8.6, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco Catalyst Switches writes "Reliable and stable catalyst switch; can be easily installed". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional". Cisco Catalyst Switches is most compared with Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches, Cisco Nexus, HPE ProCurve and Dell PowerSwitch N-Series, whereas VMware NSX is most compared with Nutanix Flow Network Security, Illumio, Cisco ACI, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Cisco Secure Workload. See our Cisco Catalyst Switches vs. VMware NSX report.
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