We performed a comparison between SaltStack SecOps and VMware NSX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about VMware, Cisco, Akamai and others in Cloud and Data Center Security."It's what we use the CIS Benchmarks for. It's for employing hardening rules and keeping them up to date when things happen on our systems. So it's really configurations and stuff that harden and report back."
"From a distributed firewall perspective, it's a solid solution."
"VMware NSX's overlay network is its most valuable feature, as it aligns with any network philosophy and allows for efficient addressing mechanisms. Additionally, the ability to extend the on-premise network into the provider space is beneficial. There are many features provided."
"The most valuable feature of VMware NSX is the load balancing and routing of firewall rules. Many of the features are beneficial."
"We are happy with the scalability."
"I really like the management dashboard, the tailor-made assurance, the telemetry, and the ease of integration with all other solutions of VMware, such as vSphere."
"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 most valuable features are stability and low cost."
"The initial setup is easy and takes between one and five days."
"This solution is really unusable from my perspective at this point. Overall, I would rate the solution a one of ten."
"Despite being somewhat behind in the cybersecurity field, VMware should develop a cloud and a red team to continuously monitor for new malware and ransomware."
"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 price is rather high."
"The support from VMware NSX could improve."
"A room for improvement in VMware NSX is that it has some security vulnerabilities, which means my company has to apply the patches every once in a while."
"The setup of the solution could be simplified."
"We had some complexities implementing into the other parts of a network."
"The scalability is not perfect."
SaltStack SecOps is ranked 16th in Cloud and Data Center Security with 1 review while VMware NSX is ranked 1st in Cloud and Data Center Security with 93 reviews. SaltStack SecOps is rated 1.0, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SaltStack SecOps writes "Under-implementation and lag in benchmark support and lacks support for AIX". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional". SaltStack SecOps is most compared with , 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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