We performed a comparison between Cisco APIC-EM [EOL] and VMware NSX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, VMware, Array Networks and others in Network Virtualization."The environment enables a DevOps culture, continuous delivery, and automated processes."
"Eliminating the IT administration silos for our datacenter and infrastructure by providing a single managed and converged infrastructure which provides unified compute, storage, and networking environment with a single point of management."
"Enabling business agility and accelerated time to market with the automated service delivery."
"You can easily integrate this with other VMware products. It is a robust solution."
"It is a stable solution...The solution's initial setup process was easy."
"VMware NSX's overlay network is its most valuable feature, as it aligns with any network philosophy and allows for efficient addressing mechanisms. Additionally, the ability to extend the on-premise network into the provider space is beneficial. There are many features provided."
"The most valuable feature of VMware NSX is the ability to set up virtual networking environments."
"The organization of it is logical, useful, and intuitive."
"The dashboard is comprehensive and easy to use."
"Their technical support is very good. They help us figure out solutions when we have problems."
"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."
"Need a better workflow definition tool with tracking on existing provisioned services, and to improve multitasking in the workflow automation."
"VMware NSX should be able to scale for different customers, even the big ones. Its scalability needs improvement. Stability for it should also be improved."
"The setup is complex and should be made easier."
"VMware NSX only supports some platforms like KVM."
"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."
"In the future, the solution should be compliant with internet NIC."
"They could branch out to the physical layer."
"It could be cheaper!"
"We have been satisfied with the technical support. They were able to solve our problems. However, they could be faster."
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Cisco APIC-EM [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Network Virtualization while VMware NSX is ranked 2nd in Network Virtualization with 93 reviews. Cisco APIC-EM [EOL] is rated 8.0, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco APIC-EM [EOL] writes "Enabling business agility and accelerated time to market with the automated service delivery". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional". Cisco APIC-EM [EOL] 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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