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VMware
Real User
Technical Delivery Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 13 2017
What is most valuable?
The ease in which to install this product and make it work straight away without minimum changes in your physical network and is simply astonishing. The only thing you need to do when installing this product is change your MTU to 1600 (jumbo... more»How has it helped my organization?
We haven't installed this in our environment yet. We have a major lab to provide our Ci-Dev team a sandpit to test apps and its security when deploying a three-tier application on our customers and test every single connection and performance... more»What needs improvement?
The upgrade process is okay overall, but we have encountered issues every time when upgrading with the ESXi hosts VIB installation packages not being properly deployed, and after upgrading NSX manager, the ESXi hosts still uses the old... more»VMware
Sep 10 2017
What is most valuable?
The ability to scale from different clouds. At the moment, the scalability of the product is the number one thing that I saw. Right now, we're doing a private cloud, since we're government. In the future, we may want to look at public, but... more»How has it helped my organization?
It has the potential to improve the way we function by having our different clouds be able to easily communicate back and forth. Right now, it takes a lot of work to do collaboration from our test lab, to our production, and to do anything... more»What needs improvement?
Pricing and licensing could be improved as we are a government entity. Lower pricing could always help.Have A Question About Data Center Networking?
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VMware
Oct 24 2017
What is most valuable?
NSX gives us the ability to put our network, NSX, onto any network there is, which allows us not to have to go to the network team to create networks our VLANs for networks. We can just create all our networks right from the start. Whenever we want to spin something up, we just spin it up.What needs improvement?
So far, what I've seen here at VMworld, it seems to be improving just the same line as everything else. It's going to expand, grow and grow and grow. It's going everywhere. It's not just going into "I'm using the V version of NSX," but it's going out to every environment. It's going out to all the clouds so that even if you have the V, you can also use the cloud... more»VMware
Oct 09 2017
What is most valuable?
NSX is extremely invaluable from the standpoint of security. It does have capabilities of micro-segmenting a network, being able to create smaller segments of various types of applications separated by various tiers. However, what it's mostly important for is being able to actually set security policies right at the interfacing virtual machine, which we haven't... more»What needs improvement?
So the third-party marketplace is growing and growing for this product and being able to redirect traffic to them, to the third-party products in order to take advantage of those additional features, is wonderful. I think that one of the more important things to see better integrated into the NSX product would be an IDS/IPS type solution, which right now we're... more»VMware
Oct 09 2017
What is most valuable?
I sell to a lot of customers in the DoD. NSX has really become part of their ecosystem, especially for the tactical customers in the DoD. It's very important for them to have small footprints and have as much services in their servers, as possible. NSX has fit this role really well for them.What needs improvement?
* Going through and getting more features sets from the routing protocols is definitely necessary for the future. * Being able to properly manipulate BGP * Getting multiprotocol BGP into the stack * A little bit better redistribution As a CCIE, I like to have all my tool sets, and there are some things which NSX is missing right now. It's missing some more... more»VMware
Oct 25 2017
What do you think of VMware NSX?
Valuable Features 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. • Room for Improvement Just being more knowledgeable about the different functions. I think the product is fine. It's just learning more about the product, and how you can benefit from it, and what it's got to offer. • Stability Issues Very stable. We've had great success with it. It's a different mindset for the actual network folks that are used to building an old traditional way, but it's much faster to get things deployed with firewall rules. • Scalability Issues It's definitely scalable, however large, however small. We can bring people in with VDI desktops, with a control set already around that, to be able...VMware
Oct 09 2017
What do you think of VMware NSX?
Valuable Features Some of NSX's most valuable features are: Its distributed firewall The we can actually extend Layer 2 networking across datacenters, and also Layer 3 networking, which comes along with it. The routing and switching. • Room for Improvement They could branch out to the physical layer. Today, it's just the virtual layer, and they're starting to talk about the physical layer. We'd like to see the physical layer incorporated. • Stability Issues We've been using NSX now with Layer 2 stretching for approximately 10 months. We're getting ready to really ramp up the DFW, which is the distributed firewall piece, which we and our security team are very excited about. NSX is a very stable product. • Scalability Issues We've already scaled it across two...VMware
Sep 06 2017
What is most valuable?
* NSX Manager featuresHow has it helped my organization?
It has allowed our customers to scale/extend their existing IP subnets and spin up new subnets on-demand for new app/web/DB tiers. Increasing overall VM-to-VM security and policy deployments. It has helped increase operational efficiency from... more»What needs improvement?
* NSX Manager console: limit on number of NSX Controllers an architecture can haveVMware
Oct 09 2017
What do you think of VMware NSX?
Valuable Features The most valuable part of NSX is it's very scalable and automated. Our change request time is really low. • Stability Issues For the most part, it's very stable. The only hiccup is sometimes during an upgrade, there are hurdles that you can have during that time, but overall it's very stable. • Scalability Issues Since we're almost 100% virtual, it's been very scalable for us. • Customer Service and Technical Support Sometimes, it can be difficult to get to a higher level engineer if you need to, but it takes some work to make that case. Usually it happens, but it's a little difficult. • Initial Setup It seems to be very straightforward. Usually a lot of it's handled by the installer. Yeah, very straightforward. As long as you read the design...VMware
Sep 10 2017
What do you think of VMware NSX?
Valuable Features Security. Our Trend platform runs off NSX. • Improvements to My Organization We use the solution strictly for security. • Use of Solution Roughly six months. • Deployment Issues We didn't have this issue, but I would recommend to others looking at this solution to make sure that their hardware is compatible. • Scalability Issues It seems to be taking care of our whole environment. It seems to be pretty scalable. • Customer Service and Technical Support I have not used it, but my coworker has. Every time he talks to them, they're easy to get a hold of; very knowledgeable and they solve his issues right away. If you put in a trouble ticket, they contact you very quickly (in response). If there is a problem, it usually isn't around very long....
Cisco
Jun 27 2017
What is most valuable?
With the invention of the Tablet, the world of Desktop and laptops have probably returned to the Stone Age. With the advent of Nexus 7, Google's new wonder Tablet, Amazon's Kindle Fire has got a tough competitor. Nexus 7 is not only one of the best among 7-inch Tablets, but it is also threatening to oust 10-inch ones off the market as well. With a beautifully... more»What needs improvement?
There are absolutely no issues to worry about Nexus 7 if you decide to pick it. Its portrait shaped screen only becomes landscape when you watch movies or operate any other application that requires the landscape screen. In comparison to iPad, Nexus 7 has a fewer number of apps for entertainment. You may feel the absence of a heavyweight, rear camera. Its front... more»Cisco
Jun 22 2017
What do you think of Cisco Catalyst?
Valuable Features The most valuable features, to me, are CDP, VTP, ACLs, and routing. • Improvements to My Organization These products help me dissect my network based on the users within a particular location. They've also provided me the capability to separate network traffic as necessary. • Room for Improvement As a user, I would like to see the Layer 2 Switches to have NBAR capabilities as well. It would be nice if the new ISRs have firewall capabilities as well. • Use of Solution I've been using these products since 2008. I have a Cisco ISR 2821 and 2911, Cisco Catalyst 4500, 2960 and 3750 Series Switches. • Stability Issues No stability issues were experienced. • Scalability Issues It would be nice to see these products have built-in wireless access...VMware
Oct 25 2017
What do you think of VMware NSX?
Valuable Features We can deliver the network that customers need quickly and safely. That is most important. • Room for Improvement There is one feature I'm finding with VMware which is special for us from IBM with JIRA routing protocols. This is in the future that they are planning, especially right now with our compatible AWS. AWS is good, understood, except for the software to improve, probably with Amazon right now doing this partnership. VMware and access are going to be improved for that. • Stability Issues It's totally stable, because right now it's running version 6.3. It's very mature. Even the versions with VMware 5.5, 6, and 6.5 are very stable right now. It's becoming more open to other environments, too. It's not only working with VMware, but also with Red Hat...VMware
Real User
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 09 2016
What do you think of VMware NSX?
Valuable Features I have worked on NSX for the last couple of months and I Liked Distributed Logical Switching, Distributed Logical Router and Distributed Firewall the most. • Improvements to My Organization We have deployed it in a virtual environment and it saved a lot of time and effort for us to configure. • Room for Improvement Speed of the NSX Controllers while deploying sometimes gets a bit slower which can be improved, overall its a great product • Use of Solution Last few months. • Deployment Issues No issues. • Stability Issues No issues. • Scalability Issues No issues. • Customer Service and Technical Support Customer Service: Satisfied. Technical Support: Satisfied. • Previous Solutions No. • Implementation Team We are a...Cisco
User
Senior Technical Sales Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Apr 16 2018
What do you think of Cisco Catalyst?
Primary Use Case Switching environments, as part of a LAN management solution, where the customer needs to build, operate, and maintain Layer 2 and Layer 3 networks for internal use. • Improvements to My Organization It uses many protocols to ease operations, such as CDP and the interoperability of other Cisco products. • Valuable Features Perpetual POE is a valuable feature, because when the switch reboots, access points do not. This helps minimize infrastructure downtime and impacts internals. • Room for Improvement Services should be improved. The delivery of the product lead time should be improved as well. • Use of Solution More than five years. • Pricing, Setup Cost and Licensing The price should go down instead of up.Cisco
Jun 13 2018
What do you think of Cisco Catalyst?
Primary Use Case Our primary use is LAN and WAN links for our enterprise network. Cisco Catalyst is used to connect all our WAN links to a central data center. • Improvements to My Organization Low maintenance and very stable; not much of a problem. It helps keep our network connections in a healthy state. • Valuable Features VLAN Routing capabilities and security features It can easily be enabled and used as need dictates. • Use of Solution One to three years. • Pricing, License Cost and Setup It has a very high cost, but understandably, due to its very good quality. This is the reason why some customers opt to buy cheaper brands with same/similar features.Cisco
Feb 11 2018
What is most valuable?
* Flexible deployment: We can add new network segments without hard work. * Stability: If we lose some network connections, the system automatically creates new connections between equipment.How has it helped my organization?
Network has increased stability, security, and usability. Cisco Catalyst has the ability to create new services for users, such as IP phones and video conference. We decreased budgets on the support corporate network and increased user... more»What needs improvement?
* Cloud services * Machine learning futures * Virtual reality futures * More IoT equipment * Mobile softwareHave A Question About Data Center Networking?
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