We performed a comparison between Cisco Nexus 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."We have continuity with Cisco, which provides a very high-end solution."
"The most valuable features are extensions and recorded scalability."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco Nexus is the performance, flexibility, configuration, and cost. It's not a traditional pricing model from Cisco. They've offered our company a considerable reduction in price. That makes Cisco Nexus now very competitive with other vendors."
"This solution streamlines how we have to configure things because we can do everything from one device, whereas if we had individual devices we would have to go to each one and configure them manually."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Cisco Nexus has good overall reliability and configuration options. It is fairly straightforward to access the switching platforms."
"The redundancy and the vPC are the most valuable features. We can integrate two switches together for file transfers; that is, we can operate two switches as one. This is because the network can be shared via a vPC trunk, particularly for devices that are not critical for redundancy."
"The scalability of Cisco Nexus is good. We've had them for the entire lifetime. We've never had to upgrade them yet."
"The microsegmentation is great, and the security team thinks it is great."
"This solution comes with an API that can easily integrate with other solutions."
"It does have capabilities of micro-segmenting a network, being able to create smaller segments of various types of applications separated by various tiers."
"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 ability to scale from different clouds. At the moment, the scalability of the product is the number one thing that I saw."
"Over the last two years, they've enhanced a lot, especially in regard to integration with OpenStack."
"The firewall is its most valuable feature."
"VMware NSX offers some of the best features for security, such as micro-segmentation."
"I would like to see some development into the SAE world where you can virtualize. That would be the only thing I would like to see because I need to start virtualizing my infrastructure gear at some of the other data centers that I have."
"They should make it easier to update the code on it."
"There are too many different model numbers and too much complexity."
"Standardization across iOS and Nexus operating systems would be an improvement."
"The software is not as mature as it could be and needs some integration improvements with other orchestrators."
"I would like to see a lighter platform."
"For a very small subset, Cisco Nexus caused port flapping within the applications."
"The implementation process could be easier, which is something that should be improved."
"It still needs to grow. There are still some features that it doesn't do, like it doesn't do multicasting."
"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."
"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."
"It was stable for one year, there was no impact. In the last two months, we had two big incidents."
"I would like to see automation capabilities in the deployment process."
"They could do more with cloud management."
"The setup is complex and should be made easier."
"The tool's setup is complex and we need support to implement it."
Cisco Nexus is ranked 6th in LAN Switching with 101 reviews while VMware NSX is ranked 2nd in Network Virtualization with 93 reviews. Cisco Nexus is rated 8.4, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco Nexus writes " Offer high performance capabilities and enables efficient data transmission and processing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional". Cisco Nexus is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Juniper QFX Series Switches, Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches and Juniper QFabric, whereas VMware NSX is most compared with Nutanix Flow Network Security, Illumio, Cisco ACI, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and HPE SDN. See our Cisco Nexus vs. VMware NSX report.
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