We performed a comparison between Big Switch Networks and VMware NSX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Juniper, Big Switch Networks and others in Software Defined Networking (SDN)."What I liked about the solution is the quick and easy way you can build a network data center fabric."
"NSX can reduce costs and has good service. It is easy for you and your users to use."
"The micro-segmentation and the ability to create policy rules are valuable."
"Has a great firewall."
"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."
"The most valuable features are ease of use and user interface."
"This is a good firewall and overall it is rich in features."
"VMware NSX is a very good solution. It's also a scalable solution."
"The initial setup was straightforward. You just have to click it and follow the manuals."
"I think if I was to say something that could be improved, it would be a multi-data center nature of the implementation."
"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."
"The engineering team has room for improvement. They should have have more of a Knowledge Base about different case studies and should develop more advanced features. These kinds of improvements will change the way things get done."
"If there are other solutions already in place, it can be difficult to implement."
"There are sometimes mismatch in the control, the details and what you actually see on the transport note."
"In the next release, they should enhance the visual interface. With NSX-T, it's difficult to communicate between the public cloud and the container."
"Our technical team is always looking for the solutions that they work with to offer more convenient integrations."
"A room for improvement in VMware NSX is that it has some security vulnerabilities, which means my company has to apply the patches every once in a while."
"The support needs improvement."
Big Switch Networks is ranked 4th in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 1 review while VMware NSX is ranked 2nd in Network Virtualization with 93 reviews. Big Switch Networks is rated 9.0, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Big Switch Networks writes "A flexible solution that can be integrated with third-party solutions whilst maintaining its automated nature". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Works well and allows us to do micro-segmentation and create policy rules". Big Switch Networks is most compared with Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline, Cisco SD-WAN, Ixia Network Packet Brokers, APCON and cPacket cVu Monitoring Nodes, whereas VMware NSX is most compared with Nutanix Flow Network Security, Cisco ACI, Illumio, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Cisco Secure Workload.
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