We performed a comparison between Cisco DNA Center and VMware NSX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product gives a consolidated view."
"DNA Center is scalable."
"Cisco is a leading network company."
"Cisco VXLAN is a protocol that has been around for some time, but the practical implementation and operational capability of Cisco DNA Center bring it to life."
"The solution helps with the management and orchestration of campaigns. It helps with visibility and analytics. I also like its SDA configuration."
"It enables monitoring of various components such as access points, switch cards, and other elements within the company's solutions."
"I like the visibility, instant build, network, policies, and the ability to control access. I also like that you can visualize your whole network."
"People like to use the dashboards to get an overview of their network."
"The most valuable feature of VMware NSX is the ability to set up virtual networking environments."
"It is easy to implement it."
"One significant advantage of VMware NSX is the ability to provide advanced security at the micro-level, focusing on securing applications and workloads rather than just the network structure or virtualization-based network security."
"The most valuable feature of VMware NSX is the high bandwidth."
"Over the last two years, they've enhanced a lot, especially in regard to integration with OpenStack."
"The dashboard is comprehensive and easy to use."
"To be able to do the DR and SRM migrations from datacenter to datacenter, we're able to do them with SRM with VXLAN, with the NSX product."
"The solution is easy to use and is good for management control."
"The solution’s security side could be improved."
"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."
"An area for improvement in Cisco DNA Center is the latency in data correlation. For example, sometimes, when an issue happens, and I check the logs, I can't find the corresponding log. There's a delay in log replication, so this is what needs improvement in Cisco DNA Center. Reporting in Cisco DNA Center could also be improved because it only has a few templates, and you can't customize it based on your requirements. There aren't many options available in Cisco DNA Center regarding reporting, versus Cisco Prime, which has excellent features for different levels of detailed reports. I'd like to see real-time data replication in the next release of Cisco DNA Center, similar to what's done in Meraki. Data in Meraki is real-time with no delay, so data is immediately replicated in the cloud. Currently, there's a lag in Cisco DNA Center, and addressing that lag is the enhancement I'd like to see in Cisco DNA Center. The solution also needs to be more user-friendly."
"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."
"When it comes to deploying wireless fields, integrating defaults into the DNS interface can be challenging."
"The weaknesses primarily involve pricing and the ongoing need for increased bandwidth and data throughput."
"In terms of the clustering part, there are some concerns."
"What could be improved is the licensing cost of Cisco DNA Center. It's a little bit expensive."
"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 branch out to the physical layer."
"VMware NSX only supports some platforms like KVM."
"The support from VMware NSX could improve."
"Going through and getting more features sets from the routing protocols is definitely necessary for the future."
"It's a good product, but the way that it has got so many multiple levels that need to be purchased makes it expensive and cumbersome."
"The support needs improvement."
"It needs to be cheaper."
Cisco DNA Center is ranked 1st in Network Automation with 37 reviews while VMware NSX is ranked 4th in Network Automation with 93 reviews. Cisco DNA Center is rated 7.8, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco DNA Center writes "Practical implementation of VXLAN is good and provides centralized control". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional". Cisco DNA Center is most compared with Cisco Prime, Aruba Airwave, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, Huawei eSight and Apstra Operating System, whereas VMware NSX is most compared with Nutanix Flow Network Security, Illumio, Cisco ACI, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Check Point CloudGuard Network Security. See our Cisco DNA Center vs. VMware NSX report.
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