We performed a comparison between Cisco Nexus and VMware NSX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two LAN Switching solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features are that it is easy to use, provides stability, easy to configure, low latency, and it provides communication to the data center."
"This product has improved the way our organization functions through the ability to do things in a maintenance window while allowing other teams to continue to work."
"Solid product, communications and support from a well-known dependable company."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco Nexus is the performance, flexibility, configuration, and cost. It's not a traditional pricing model from Cisco. They've offered our company a considerable reduction in price. That makes Cisco Nexus now very competitive with other vendors."
"It is a scalable, reliable, stable and efficient solution."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution has introduced VPC, Virtual Port Channel, which allows for more redundancy and flexibility."
"This solution has given us the ability to use Cisco ISE for security."
"The solution is very good at micro-segmentation."
"The initial setup was straightforward. You just have to click it and follow the manuals."
"Over the last two years, they've enhanced a lot, especially in regard to integration with OpenStack."
"The solution's customer service is good."
"The solution is robust as it covers everything we want to do and is stable, so we're happy enough with it. We have had no problems so far. Everything is great."
"It operates on a logical level, providing a comprehensive and centralized way to manage your network resources."
"Overall, for me, it's a good solution and has been working well."
"The microsegmentation is a good feature. You can segment details, products, or hardware information."
"The cost of the support can be improved. We had critical operations, and we needed 24/7 support for 365 days, which was quite expensive. We had to go for a very costly support contract, which was really a concern. The availability of spare parts, especially in a remote location such as Egypt, can also be improved."
"Areas in which the solution have room for improvement are the interface, management, and reporting."
"There are too many different model numbers and too much complexity."
"In the next release of this solution, I would like to see a focus on backplane deployment, so you can stack more."
"The product lacks options for integration with other market products that would allow us more flexibility."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing. The solution is expensive. Compared to other vendors, it's costly for similar products."
"I would like to see more granularity."
"The flexibility and configuration could be better."
"They could do more with cloud management."
"It might be nice to have more AI in the future."
"It's not feature-rich."
"I want to see the solution expand to more than just the network, for example, perhaps it could provide some VLAN technologies."
"There are always issues integrating with Cisco."
"There were some issues with finance and other accounting."
"We would like better integration with the standards on the market. For example, with OSPF, their integration in NSX is very low. It's not a full OSPF integration. It is too thin from a protocol perspective."
"Just being more knowledgeable about the different functions."
Cisco Nexus is ranked 6th in LAN Switching with 101 reviews while VMware NSX is ranked 2nd in Network Virtualization with 93 reviews. Cisco Nexus is rated 8.4, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco Nexus writes " Offer high performance capabilities and enables efficient data transmission and processing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional". Cisco Nexus is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Juniper QFX Series Switches, Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches and Juniper QFabric, whereas VMware NSX is most compared with Nutanix Flow Network Security, Illumio, Cisco ACI, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and HPE SDN. See our Cisco Nexus vs. VMware NSX report.
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