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We performed a comparison between SaltStack SecOps and VMware NSX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"It's what we use the CIS Benchmarks for. It's for employing hardening rules and keeping them up to date when things happen on our systems. So it's really configurations and stuff that harden and report back."

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"The most valuable features are security and dynamic routing.""The most valuable feature is the ability to create, develop, and deploy servers in minutes to hours, rather than days.""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.""You can easily integrate this with other VMware products. It is a robust solution.""The most valuable features are ease of use and user interface.""The most valuable feature of VMware NSX is the ability to set up virtual networking environments.""The migration methods are the most valuable aspect of this solution.""I really like the management dashboard, the tailor-made assurance, the telemetry, and the ease of integration with all other solutions of VMware, such as vSphere."

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Cons
"This solution is really unusable from my perspective at this point. Overall, I would rate the solution a one of ten."

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"The solution could benefit from improvements in its pricing and scalability.""The first time setting it up was difficult.""Its licensing model could be VM based.""The feature it can improve is essentially application-based load balancing with intelligent load distribution for applications that require redundancy and high availability.""I would like them to make integration with other vendors easier.""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.""It still needs to grow. There are still some features that it doesn't do, like it doesn't do multicasting.""It was stable for one year, there was no impact. In the last two months, we had two big incidents."

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  • "Pricing and licensing could be improved as we are a government entity. Lower pricing could always help."
  • "We haven't had to hire a dedicated network engineer because NSX handles 90 percent of it. The reduced overhead in terms of managing networks has been the biggest plus."
  • "We have saved man-hours and decreased our security exposure."
  • "We can't go without NSX, so it's invaluable from this perspective."
  • "The solution is very expensive."
  • "The licensing fees are expensive and we pay on a yearly basis."
  • "It is an expensive product, but cheaper than some competing solutions."
  • "The price of this product is too high."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:It's what we use the CIS Benchmarks for. It's for employing hardening rules and keeping them up to date when things happen on our systems. So it's really configurations and stuff that harden and… more »
    Top Answer:SecOps does not work for us. Their SecOps is so infant, and it doesn't support AIX that we just can't use it. Unusable is unusable. So if someone gives it to me for free. I can't use it. The only good… more »
    Top Answer:It's what we use the CIS Benchmarks for. It's for employing hardening rules and keeping them up to date when things happen on our systems. So it's really configurations and stuff that harden and… more »
    Top Answer:There are some very major differences between both the Products and to name a few -Cisco ACI have physical network gear (9K Switches) where the Code runs in ACI Policy Mode & the UCS server where… more »
    Top Answer:Once you know your way around the Cisco ecosystem, using Cisco ACI is not so difficult. It is a global product, so when you change one interface, changes are automatically reflected on every switch… more »
    Top Answer:The product has valuable features for security and network extension.
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    Overview

    SaltStack intelligent automation helps enterprise IT operations, SecOps, and DevOps teams manage and secure a software-defined world. SaltStack is unique in offering event-driven automation for cloud and container control, infrastructure and application configuration management, continuous compliance, and IT security solutions for enterprise IT and web-scale data center environments. SaltStack is the most scalable, flexible and efficient systems management platform available today and provides substantially more value and functionality compared to legacy alternatives. SaltStack Enterprise and SaltStack SecOps commercial products are powered by the Salt, the popular open source IT automation and configuration management platform. Contact us for support, training and professional services options.

    VMware NSX is a full-stack network and security virtualization platform that enables the virtual cloud network. NSX provides a software-defined process for networking that expands throughout cloud frameworks, data centers, and application structures. Users can join and secure applications within their container and multi-cloud infrastructure and their data center. With robust automated provisioning, the platform offers dynamic flexibility and scalability without compromising on network speed or agility.

    VMware NSX recreates the whole software network model so that users can create and deliver apps quickly and securely. Users can customize security policies and leverage IDS/IPS to block against lateral threats. These security policies can be managed throughout private and public clouds from one pane of glass, no matter where your applications run. By consolidating networking and security tasks into a unified platform, users can save up to one-third of their budget.

    VMware NSX Use Cases

    VMware NSX brings the operational model of a virtual machine to users’ data center networks and revolutionizes the foundations of network and security operations. There are a number of use cases, including:

    • Containers - Similar to VMs, users can offer unified, full-stack networking and security for microservices and containerized apps. This includes the ability to micro-segment, use container networking for Kubernetes, and offers complete visibility for microservices.
    • App Delivery - Users can deliver infrastructure as code while also accelerating app delivery with blueprints that can automate the management of security and networking resources.
    • Security - With zero-trust security in public and private cloud environments, users can reduce attacks, lock down critical apps, and design a logical DMZ in software.
    • Load Balancing - Users can update their data centers from legacy load balancers to software load balancers and SDN automation, creating savings of over 50%.
    • Multi-Cloud - Expand networking across clouds and streamline multi-cloud operations with multi-cloud use cases, including rapid workload mobility, seamless data center extension, and multi-DC pooling.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Through a policy-driven approach, VMware NSX provides VMware technologies to assist with network and security visualization in a unified solution. Users particularly like the distributed firewall and the management dashboard.

    Kolawole O., a systems engineer at a tech services company, writes, "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."

    A head of business development and partners management at a comms service provider notes, "I really like the management dashboard, the tailor-made assurance, the telemetry, and the ease of integration with all other solutions of VMware, such as vSphere."

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    Computer Software Company23%
    Financial Services Firm17%
    Retailer10%
    Manufacturing Company8%
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    Financial Services Firm12%
    Government10%
    Manufacturing Company8%
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    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise20%
    Large Enterprise54%
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    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise64%
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    SaltStack SecOps is ranked 16th in Cloud and Data Center Security with 1 review while VMware NSX is ranked 1st in Cloud and Data Center Security with 93 reviews. SaltStack SecOps is rated 1.0, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SaltStack SecOps writes "Under-implementation and lag in benchmark support and lacks support for AIX". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional". SaltStack SecOps is most compared with , whereas VMware NSX is most compared with Nutanix Flow Network Security, Illumio, Cisco ACI, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Cisco Secure Workload.

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