We performed a comparison between Big Switch Networks and VMware NSX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Juniper, Aviatrix and others in Software Defined Networking (SDN)."What I liked about the solution is the quick and easy way you can build a network data center fabric."
"The solution's customer service is good."
"The micro-segmentation and the ability to create policy rules are valuable."
"This is a good firewall and overall it is rich in features."
"Provides protection for virtual machines."
"The best part is the blueprint creation where I can create their things and then move on to the target environment."
"The most valuable feature of VMware NSX is the ease of use and its user friendly. For example, it is simple to change the subnet masks."
"The microsegmentation allows me to sleep at night. My job is reducing risk, plugging security holes, and working with the automated layer security. Even if somebody spins up a new server, it has to have a tag in NSX."
"NSX's stand-out function is the distributed firewall. The firewall system is just top-notch, and I haven't seen another solution like it."
"I think if I was to say something that could be improved, it would be a multi-data center nature of the implementation."
"It takes time to do the initial setup. It is a bit slow, which is surprising."
"The feature it can improve is essentially application-based load balancing with intelligent load distribution for applications that require redundancy and high availability."
"Our technical team is always looking for the solutions that they work with to offer more convenient integrations."
"There could be an improvement in regards to security."
"They could do more with cloud management."
"The training costs a minimum of $3,000, which is expensive and should be reduced."
"The scalability is not perfect."
"The price could be better. The non-enterprise version of the product should also be improved. I would like VMware to expand beyond the network and provide some VLAN technologies and more. I think we have one, but it's more on the distribution side because it's more on the upper side of the network. I'm looking forward to that."
Big Switch Networks is ranked 5th in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 1 review while VMware NSX is ranked 2nd in Network Virtualization with 94 reviews. Big Switch Networks is rated 9.0, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Big Switch Networks writes "A flexible solution that can be integrated with third-party solutions whilst maintaining its automated nature". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional". Big Switch Networks is most compared with Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline, Ixia Network Packet Brokers, Cisco SD-WAN, APCON and Cumulus Networks, 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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