We performed a comparison between Cisco SD-WAN and VMware NSX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Fortinet, Check Point Software Technologies and others in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions."There is minimum blind space in this solution."
"SD-WAN is very stable - once it's deployed, you can just forget about it, it runs by itself."
"The deployment is quite simple and straightforward."
"Cisco SD-WAN's best features are the development of network links, application control, and bandwidth monitoring."
"You get security, all of the service you need, and it's easy to deploy."
"There have been no issues with stability."
"The first part that we like is that we can reuse certain hardware, which is a valuable asset. You can use hardware SKUs that already exist in the network. The second part that we like is the integration with the cloud and the measurement of the cloud's quality. These are the two values that this solution gives as compared to other implementations that we have seen."
"The solution can scale. We haven't had any issues doing so."
"The micro-segmentation and the ability to create policy rules are valuable."
"The interface is intuitive enough."
"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)."
"We are happy with the scalability."
"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."
"From a distributed firewall perspective, it's a solid solution."
"The installation is straightforward, it took a couple of hours."
"The organization of it is logical, useful, and intuitive."
"What I find should be improved is the possibility of really separating the software layer from the hardware layer since today the current offer is not well adopted by the service providers"
"The solution is a bit complicated."
"The initial setup is really complex."
"We recently found some bugs."
"We had some issues with Cisco SD-WAN but somehow we troubleshot it and things are going well. The issues have not been a large problem."
"There should be more security features in the hybrid and on-premise deployments of Cisco SD-WAN. The cloud has most of the security features."
"The process of onboarding the vSmart, vBond, and vManage should be improved to make it easier to manage in general."
"The security features could be improved."
"The next release of NSX should try to make Kubernetes and container integration a little easier than it is now. It's quite a complicated process."
"Just being more knowledgeable about the different functions."
"There are always issues integrating with Cisco."
"It still needs to grow. There are still some features that it doesn't do, like it doesn't do multicasting."
"The technical support could use some improvement."
"I would rate NSX's stability eight out of ten - there's room for improvement."
"The feature it can improve is essentially application-based load balancing with intelligent load distribution for applications that require redundancy and high availability."
"The tool's setup is complex and we need support to implement it."
Cisco SD-WAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 86 reviews while VMware NSX is ranked 2nd in Network Virtualization with 94 reviews. Cisco SD-WAN is rated 8.0, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco SD-WAN writes "A solution for integrating services to enhance up-time, performance and lower costs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional". Cisco SD-WAN is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Meraki SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN, Juniper Session Smart Router and Aviatrix, whereas VMware NSX is most compared with Nutanix Flow Network Security, Illumio, Cisco ACI, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Cisco Nexus.
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