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."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."
"The environment enables a DevOps culture, continuous delivery, and automated processes."
"The most valuable feature of VMware NSX is the load balancing and routing of firewall rules. Many of the features are beneficial."
"This is the most scalable product of its type."
"It is easy to implement it."
"The solution is very stable and reliable."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create, develop, and deploy servers in minutes to hours, rather than days."
"I have found VMware NSX to be easy to use."
"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."
"NSX has excellent security features like virtual firewalls. I also like the micro-segmentation features, which are useful for the virtual machines inside the servers."
"Need a better workflow definition tool with tracking on existing provisioned services, and to improve multitasking in the workflow automation."
"Nowadays, NSX supports the KVM and ESXi hypervisors only. It should also support Hyper-V and Citrix hypervisors."
"We've have had good and bad experiences with them. We don't always find them to be so impactful. Sometimes the support guy isn't so on top of resolving the issue and it can take a while to sort out."
"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."
"It could be more user-friendly, but it's manageable. When we add a specific node to this particular NSX and the configuration changes, it won't push through the errors where required, but it'll accept it. However, while using it, we will have issues. It can also be more stable."
"The price could be better. The non-enterprise version of the product should also be improved. I would like VMware to expand beyond the network and provide some VLAN technologies and more. I think we have one, but it's more on the distribution side because it's more on the upper side of the network. I'm looking forward to that."
"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."
"It could be cheaper!"
"I would like them to make integration with other vendors easier."
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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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