We performed a comparison between Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 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."Since it is in YAML, if I have to explain it to somebody else, they can easily understand it."
"It is agentless. I don't have to think about which client system my unit has understanding in or not, because I can execute from my system. It will go and configure it, and any module that it is looking for will be shipped out."
"It increases our company's efficiency, automating all the simple tasks which used to take hours of somebody's time."
"The most useful features are the playbooks. We can develop our playbooks and simplify them doing something like a cross platform."
"Managing our inventory is a big pain point. Right now, we have Satellite, but we can tie it in with Satellite, so we can actually manage things and automate the entire deployment stack, instead of trying to grab things from tickets, then generating Kickstart, and using that to get things in Satellite. That doesn't work well. We can do the whole deployment stack using the inventory share between Tower and Satellite."
"It was easy to read and learn. It is a YAML-based syntax, which makes it easily understand and pick up."
"It is all modular-based. If there is not a module for it today, someone will write it."
"There are new modules available, which help to simplify the workflow. That is what we like about it."
"The dashboard is comprehensive and easy to use."
"We like that everything is integrated."
"It operates on a logical level, providing a comprehensive and centralized way to manage your network resources."
"The firewall is its most valuable feature."
"The migration methods are the most valuable aspect of this solution."
"The most valuable features are ease of use and user interface."
"We secured our organisation with Micro-segmentation."
"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 could be easier to integrate Ansible with other solutions. No single tool can do everything. For example, we use Terraform for infrastructure and other solutions for configuration management and VMs."
"The scalability of the solution has some shortcomings."
"Accessibility. Ansible uses a CLI by default. Those accustomed to it can find their way and adopt the YAML files easily over time. But, some users are more comfortable using UIs..."
"For a couple of the API integrations, there has been a lack of documentation."
"The tool should allow us to create infrastructure. It has everything when it comes to management, but it lacks the provisioning aspect."
"It would be helpful to have templates for common configurations. It would make it much easier and faster rather than creating a whole script. The templates would decrease the learning curve as well."
"The SSM connection access needs improvement"
"The support could be better."
"They have to work more and more on the integration for public cloud services and have cyber security platform integration."
"Nowadays, NSX supports the KVM and ESXi hypervisors only. It should also support Hyper-V and Citrix hypervisors."
"We would like tenant segmentation available in future releases."
"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."
"Its licensing model could be VM based."
"It could be cheaper!"
"I want to see the solution expand to more than just the network, for example, perhaps it could provide some VLAN technologies."
"Their licensing model should make it easier to purchase licenses."
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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 2nd in Network Automation with 62 reviews while VMware NSX is ranked 4th in Network Automation with 94 reviews. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform writes "Makes it easy to build playbooks and saves time and resources". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional". Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Azure DevOps and Microsoft Intune, whereas VMware NSX is most compared with Nutanix Flow Network Security, Illumio, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, Cisco ACI and HPE SDN. See our Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform vs. VMware NSX report.
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