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."The most valuable feature of this solution is its speed."
"I like the fact that they are a well-supported product."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco Nexus is speed compared to what you would get from a Catalyst Series switch."
"It's easy to use, and the performance is great."
"The in-service software upgrade (ISSU) feature is quite valuable."
"The most valuable features are extensions and recorded scalability."
"It provides a very flexible connection to a server. When you go into history and the VPC, it provides a very flexible connection from it. Once a server goes down I can instruct it easily. So the network actually keeps quality even if onsite it is down."
"The most valuable features are the micro-segmentation and integrated security options."
"The initial setup was straightforward. You just have to click it and follow the manuals."
"VMware NSX is a very good solution. It's also a scalable solution."
"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)."
"I have found VMware NSX to be easy to use."
"NSX has excellent security features like virtual firewalls. I also like the micro-segmentation features, which are useful for the virtual machines inside the servers."
"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."
"The most valuable features of VMware NSX are the tight integration with the VMware Hypervisor natively and the management console. We have a lot of other integrations where you are able to see the virtual machine's end-to-end visibility."
"The initial setup is always complex."
"Nothing is perfect."
"In the Nexus 3500, you can't do per-port Jumbo frames, so you have to enable it as a global configuration."
"There is no feature parity between the 9K and the 5K or 7K, which means that it is harder to position the 9K to future proof them."
"The only issue that I have with this product is finding help on different commands when I'm trying to make a change."
"The solution has room for improvement in terms of the learning curve."
"The GUI interface could be improved to make it more user friendly."
"There is some room for improvement when it comes to the frequency on the network."
"NSX could better integrate with open-source products. Of course, it integrates with some, but I know many people are uncomfortable deploying NSX with certain open-source solutions, such as Radar."
"There are always issues integrating with Cisco."
"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 training costs a minimum of $3,000, which is expensive and should be reduced."
"The initial establishment can be complex."
"The solution is only sold as part of a bundle and not as an individual product."
"I would rate this product an eight because it's a good product but it needs more work. They should fix some of the bugs."
"They have to work more and more on the integration for public cloud services and have cyber security platform integration."
Cisco Nexus is ranked 6th in LAN Switching with 101 reviews while VMware NSX is ranked 2nd in Network Virtualization with 94 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 ExtremeSwitching, 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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