We performed a comparison between Apstra Operating System and Cisco DNA Center based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Red Hat, SolarWinds and others in Network Automation."Apstra Operating System's most important features are the security and AB test to define what approach we need to take in my company. Additionally, the solution does not take a lot of maintenance."
"It is simple to manage and it is all done from a single dashboard."
"The most valuable features were the monitoring, maintenance, and configuration."
"The automation features are significant, reducing configuration time. This means outstanding functionality. By deploying the controller automatically, the rest becomes automated"
"The most valuable features of the solution are all of its security features...It is a highly scalable solution."
"The solution has the capability to scale."
"The best feature of Cisco DNA Center is the visibility page, where you can see everything on the dashboard, and you don't have to be a technical person to view the issues."
"It gives us automation capabilities for pushing out the configuration to branch networks. It also provides visibility into the health of user network devices."
"The monitoring features are very useful for network engineers."
"The report data could improve in Apstra Operating System."
"The network, data center, and SD-WAN are all being treated as different services, but I would like to have only one solution to manage all of them."
"The product doesn’t have good monitoring capabilities."
"From the recent DNA point of view, there are some stability challenges with Cisco, but very minor."
"We encountered issues with their response times, which had a big impact on our workflow."
"What I want to see in Cisco DNA Center in the future is more support for other platforms so that you can manage third-party products, such as Fortinet."
"There is a limitation with the number of VRFs that you can have in your network, and this has caused us problems with some customers."
"Cisco DNA Center should improve its configuration management. It is better to have a dev version before pushing it."
"The features of Cisco DNA Center and Cisco Prime could have more parity."
Apstra Operating System is ranked 8th in Network Automation while Cisco DNA Center is ranked 1st in Network Automation with 37 reviews. Apstra Operating System is rated 8.0, while Cisco DNA Center is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Apstra Operating System writes "Highly secure, useful AB test, and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco DNA Center writes "Practical implementation of VXLAN is good and provides centralized control". Apstra Operating System is most compared with VMware NSX, whereas Cisco DNA Center is most compared with Cisco Prime, Aruba Airwave, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, Huawei eSight and ExtremeCloud IQ.
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