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"The management aspect of the solution is its most valuable feature. Software-defined issues have been good for us. It makes the management process easy."
"Cisco has a good technical support team."
"Overall, for me, it's a good solution and has been working well."
"From a security standpoint, the customer was able to better secure critical workloads while routing L2/L3 worked normally, giving them more confidence that they would be ready for any potential security incident mitigation or outage (DR)."
"Overall, I would say the solution has been quite stable."
"VMware NSX offers some of the best features for security, such as micro-segmentation."
"I am impressed with the tool's protection."
"It operates on a logical level, providing a comprehensive and centralized way to manage your network resources."
"One significant advantage of VMware NSX is the ability to provide advanced security at the micro-level, focusing on securing applications and workloads rather than just the network structure or virtualization-based network security."
"NSX is good in managing security or controlling the security and the access control for each single VM."
"It would be helpful to have better information on how to implement this product."
"The stability of the solution could be improved."
"VMware NSX could improve by having more compatibility with other none Window-based operating systems."
"Traffic flow introspection topology visibility is definitely needed because at the moment, NSX-T lacks in this area."
"The solution can improve by making it more straightforward, easier to install and maintain in the environment."
"It isn't easy to deploy."
"The support from VMware NSX could improve."
"We have done three installations and we have not had any critical issues. The time it took for the installation was approximately two days. However, they should provide better documentation."
"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."
"It could be cheaper!"
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Cisco DNA Virtualization [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 DNA Virtualization [EOL] is rated 8.0, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco DNA Virtualization [EOL] writes "Scalable with a straightforward setup and good management capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional". Cisco DNA Virtualization [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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