We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiDDoS and VMware NSX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cloudflare, NETSCOUT, Akamai and others in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection."It allows me to see all the traffic on my network."
"The product's initial setup phase was really easy."
"The solution is very user-friendly and very easy to use."
"The product allows the users to adjust the thresholds."
"Among its key features: Detects and mitigates DDoS attacks at L3 to L7; negligible to zero false-positives; Generates and sends reports without the need for an expensive third-party solution."
"It is a user-friendly product in terms of monitoring and updating policies."
"The most valuable feature is the cloud DDoS scrubbing capability."
"The solution already has security profiles and it can protect from DDoS attacks and other kinds of attacks."
"The migration methods are the most valuable aspect of this solution."
"Provides flexibility to deploy and have network virtualization on different types of firewalls."
"Firewall security is one of VMware NSX's vital features"
"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."
"The dashboard is comprehensive and easy to use."
"Any administrator with basic networking knowledge, in a couple of days, can be in full control of their networking without going through a networking engineer."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create, develop, and deploy servers in minutes to hours, rather than days."
"It provides a single pane of glass. You can do the switching, routing, load balancing, IPS, IDS, etc. Everything is under one umbrella. So, there is no vendor dependency over there."
"The tool needs to focus more on the area of application traffic management, where it currently has some shortcomings."
"The web interface could be much better."
"The solution can be a little more user-friendly and it can be more affordable."
"The primary area for improvement is the on-premises capacity limit, currently fixed at 10 GB."
"I find that there have been issues in the past year with the solution hanging. It freezes often."
"All the thresholds that need to be configured should be included in the default so that user will not forget or misconfigure."
"The product’s pricing needs improvement."
"Alerts and reporting features must be improved."
"They could branch out to the physical layer."
"VMware NSX only supports some platforms like KVM."
"It could be more user-friendly, but it's manageable. When we add a specific node to this particular NSX and the configuration changes, it won't push through the errors where required, but it'll accept it. However, while using it, we will have issues. It can also be more stable."
"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 vendor should integrate a basic load balancer in future versions"
"If there are other solutions already in place, it can be difficult to implement."
"VMware NSX provides a lot of automation capabilities, but there is still room for improvement."
"Occasionally the licensing is not very clear. They should make it easier to understand."
Fortinet FortiDDoS is ranked 16th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 12 reviews while VMware NSX is ranked 2nd in Network Virtualization with 94 reviews. Fortinet FortiDDoS is rated 8.4, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiDDoS writes "Offers good technical support but has poor scalability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional". Fortinet FortiDDoS is most compared with Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro, Fortinet FortiWeb, Edgio and Cloudflare, whereas VMware NSX is most compared with Nutanix Flow Network Security, Illumio, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, Cisco ACI and Cisco SD-WAN.
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