We performed a comparison between Apstra Operating System and VMware NSX 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."
"One of the big improvements between the NSX-V and NSX-T is that in NSX-T you are no longer dependent on V-Center anymore."
"Provides flexibility to deploy and have network virtualization on different types of firewalls."
"We are happy with the scalability."
"It's very important for them to have small footprints and have as much services in their servers, as possible."
"The firewall is its most valuable feature."
"The stability is great. That's one of the things that we can quantify and leverage through NSX, because it's less complex. We have the availability to manage multiple things at the same time. You can identify problems before they manifest."
"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."
"It has reduced the number of people on the network team along with the system engineer involved in the security process. So, it is valuable."
"The report data could improve in Apstra Operating System."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"Traffic flow introspection topology visibility is definitely needed because at the moment, NSX-T lacks in this area."
"One drawback is this solution requires a lot of other products in the VMware ecosystem to have a full end-to-end operation orchestration monitoring. You have to buy a lot of add-ons to fully utilize the functionality."
"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."
"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."
"They could do more with cloud management."
"We would like better integration with the standards on the market. For example, with OSPF, their integration in NSX is very low. It's not a full OSPF integration. It is too thin from a protocol perspective."
"The support from VMware NSX could improve."
Apstra Operating System is ranked 9th in Network Automation while VMware NSX is ranked 4th in Network Automation with 94 reviews. Apstra Operating System is rated 8.0, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Apstra Operating System writes "Highly secure, useful AB test, and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional". Apstra Operating System is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, whereas VMware NSX is most compared with Nutanix Flow Network Security, Illumio, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, Cisco ACI and Cisco Secure Workload.
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