We performed a comparison between Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 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."It was easy to read and learn. It is a YAML-based syntax, which makes it easily understand and pick up."
"On the network side, I already have a lot of our firewall related processes automated. If it's not automated all the way from the ticket system, our network team members, our tier-one guys in India, can just go into the Tower web interface and fill in a couple of survey questions."
"One of the most valuable features is that Ansible is agentless. It does not have dependencies, other than Python, which is very generic in terms of dependencies for all systems and for any environment. Being agentless, Ansible is very convenient for everything."
"There are so many models that I don't have to create one."
"Ansible Tower provides a GUI, which is an enhancement, and a well-liked feature by operation teams."
"It is all modular-based. If there is not a module for it today, someone will write it."
"It is very easy to use, and there is less room for error."
"Since it is in YAML, if I have to explain it to somebody else, they can easily understand it."
"The most valuable features are ease of use and user interface."
"VMware NSX offers some of the best features for security, such as micro-segmentation."
"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."
"The interface is intuitive enough."
"Over the last two years, they've enhanced a lot, especially in regard to integration with OpenStack."
"The most valuable feature of VMware NSX is the high bandwidth."
"The organization of it is logical, useful, and intuitive."
"The security offered by VMware NSX is the most valuable, plus it's a feature-rich product that's straightforward to install and configure."
"Some of the Cisco modules could be expanded, which would be great, along with not having to do so much coding in the background to make it work."
"They should think of this product as an end-to-end solution and begin to develop it that way."
"The solution requires some Linux knowledge."
"It should support more integration with different products."
"Ansible is great, but there are not many modules. You can do about 80% to 90% of things by using commands, but more modules should be added. We cannot do some of the things in Ansible. In Red Hat, we have the YUM package manager, and there are certain options that we can pass through YUM. To install the Docker Community Edition, I'll write the yum install docker-ce command, but because the Docker Community Edition is not compatible with RHEL 8, I will have to use the nobest option, such as yum install docker-ce --nobest. The nobest option installs the most stable version that can be installed on a particular system. In Ansible, the nobest option is not there. So, it needs some improvements in terms of options. There should be more options, keywords, and modules."
"What we need is model-driven, declarative software infrastructure management. However, things tend to break with new versions, requiring a lot of work to fix…The focus should be on improving the support for Ansible in the area of AI coding."
"Performance has been an issue on larger environments, but it has gotten a lot better over the past two years."
"The solution should add a nice self-service portal."
"The support from VMware NSX could improve."
"I would like them to make integration with other vendors easier."
"The setup of the solution could be simplified."
"Since most people are very much used to physical networking, they find it difficult to use VMware NSX in the initial stage."
"VMware NSX can improve the migration tools from the older environments to the new environment. For example, the NSX-V has become a legacy solution, it's out of support, but customers are able to keep using it. For migration purposes, it's better for them to provide a proper tool. It will be easy to migrate from an old environment to a new one."
"The support needs improvement."
"The solution could benefit from improvements in its pricing and scalability."
"It isn't easy to deploy."
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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 2nd in Network Automation with 58 reviews while VMware NSX is ranked 4th in Network Automation with 93 reviews. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform writes "Capable of broad integrations with easy-to-operate infrastructure and user controls". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional". Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Azure DevOps and Microsoft Intune, whereas VMware NSX is most compared with Nutanix Flow Network Security, Illumio, Cisco ACI and Akamai Guardicore Segmentation. See our Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform vs. VMware NSX report.
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