We performed a comparison between Cisco SD-WAN and VMware NSX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Fortinet, Check Point Software Technologies and others in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions."The most useful feature is centralized telephony."
"It is very stable with very good firmware."
"It is very simple to deploy. It's a point-and-click type of deployment, so it's fairly simple."
"Huge companies use SD-WAN. It is largely scalable."
"Cisco SD-WAN has separate OMP routing."
"One of the most valuable features is that they have multiple SD-WAN options: you have Meraki for simple management solutions, you have Viptela, and you have the option of having any type of WAN interfaces. Presently, you can also have a single combined solution for both WAN as well as for voice, so you can have a voice bundle as well. These are major unique points of this solution."
"The centralized management is the most important feature. We can monitor what is going on at every location in our network with just one center."
"The solution has great scalability."
"We are happy with the scalability."
"It's very important for them to have small footprints and have as much services in their servers, as possible."
"We like that everything is integrated."
"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 product has valuable features for security and network extension."
"The most valuable features are stability and low cost."
"The micro-segmentation and the ability to create policy rules are valuable."
"Overall, for me, it's a good solution and has been working well."
"Better pricing and greater security would be nice to see."
"Customers require features that are secure for endpoints, on-premises, and for the cloud."
"The process of onboarding the vSmart, vBond, and vManage should be improved to make it easier to manage in general."
"When you buy the equipment, they should already put it into your cloud account. It should already be set up so that we can manage with vBond. We came across an issue where it wasn't resolved in the DNS. We are using Umbrella, so we need to create a VPN IPSec tunnel to Umbrella to enable the users to browse. I would really like to see an internal built-in firewall so that we don't have to go to Umbrella. This functionality might already be there. We are quite new to this solution, and we are still learning about it."
"Cisco's router and voice gateway has not been available since the launch of SD-WAN."
"I would like to see features related to security compliance, including a view of compliance with standards. With this, I should be able to do an audit of my network with SDWAN."
"Cisco SD-WAN doesn't have automation capabilities, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and isn't IOT-based."
"The product needs to have more understanding staff in their support team. The tool needs to provide support in every stage of deployment. We did not get the expected support from their team. The product is also not easy to use."
"Lacks integration with other solutions."
"One aspect that needs improvement is the need for further automation."
"NSX could better integrate with open-source products. Of course, it integrates with some, but I know many people are uncomfortable deploying NSX with certain open-source solutions, such as Radar."
"The feature it can improve is essentially application-based load balancing with intelligent load distribution for applications that require redundancy and high availability."
"I think that one of the more important things to see better integrated into the NSX product would be an IDS/IPS type solution."
"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."
"I would like to see automation capabilities in the deployment process."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
Cisco SD-WAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 86 reviews while VMware NSX is ranked 2nd in Network Virtualization with 93 reviews. Cisco SD-WAN is rated 8.0, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco SD-WAN writes "A solution for integrating services to enhance up-time, performance and lower costs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional". Cisco SD-WAN is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Meraki SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN, Juniper Session Smart Router and Cradlepoint NetCloud, whereas VMware NSX is most compared with Nutanix Flow Network Security, Illumio, Cisco ACI, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager.
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