Compare Cisco Tetration vs. VMware NSX
Quotes From Members
We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
Pros | |
"Scalability is its most valuable feature." "Instead of proving that all the access control lists are in place and all the EPGs are correct, we can just point the auditor to a dashboard and point out that there aren't any escaped conversations. It saves an enormous, enormous amount of time." "A complete and powerful micro-segmentation solution." "The most valuable feature of the solution is that we don't have to do packet captures on the network." "The product offers great visibility into the network so we can enforce security measures." "The most valuable feature of this solution is security." "The solution offers 100% telemetry coverage. The telemetry you collect is not sampled, it's not intermittent. It's complete. You see everything in it, including full visibility of all activities on your endpoints and in your network." "The most valuable feature is micro-segmentation, which is the most important with respect to visibility." | "It has reduced the number of people on the network team along with the system engineer involved in the security process. So, it is valuable." "From a distributed firewall perspective, it's a solid solution." "The most valuable feature is the ability to create, develop, and deploy servers in minutes to hours, rather than days." "The most valuable features for us at this early stage are the interface and the integration with existing VMware solutions." "The most valuable features are security and dynamic routing." "This is the most scalable product of its type." "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)." |
Cons | |
"It is not so easy to use and configure. It needs a bunch of further resources to work, which is mainly the biggest downside of it. The deployment is huge." "They should scale down the hardware a bit. The initial hardware investment is two million dollars so it's a price point problem. The issue with the price comes from the fact that you have to have it with enormous storage and enormous computes." "It has an uninviting interface." "I'd like to see better documentation for advanced features. The documentation is fairly basic. I would also like to see better integration with other applications." "The emailed notifications are either hard to find or they are not available. Search capabilities can be improved." "The interface is really helpful for technical people, but it is not user-friendly." "The multi-tenancy, redundancy, backup and restore functionalities, as well as the monitoring aspects of the solution, need improvement. The solution offers virtually no enterprise-grade possibility for monitoring." "There is some overlap between Cisco Tetration and AppDynamics and I need to have a single pane of glass, rather than have to jump between different tools." | "We would to have a reverse proxy. This would add great value to the solution." "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." "It could be cheaper!" "Everybody needs a network to connect to, and VMware doesn't readily provide one." "I would like to see automation capabilities in the deployment process." "The training costs a minimum of $3,000, which is expensive and should be reduced." "Traffic flow introspection topology visibility is definitely needed because at the moment, NSX-T lacks in this area." |
Pricing and Cost Advice | |
"The price is outrageous. If you have money to throw at the product, then do it." "Pricing depends on the scope of the application and the features. Larger installations save more." "It is not cheap and pricing may limit scalability." "The price is based on how many computers you're going to install it on." | "We can't go without NSX, so it's invaluable from this perspective." "The solution is very expensive." "The licensing fees are expensive and we pay on a yearly basis." |
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Questions from the Community | |
Top Answer: The most valuable feature is micro-segmentation, which is the most important with respect to visibility. Top Answer: The price is based on how many installation of software sensors you're going to install it on. Top Answer: There is some overlap between Cisco Tetration and AppDynamics and there are few DC tools, It would be great to have a single pane of glass, rather than have to jump between different tools. | Top Answer: We are currently reviewing various SD-WAN vendors for our infrastructure and what I found lacking with Cisco Meraki is that you cannot use Active/Active HA with two MX devices. Only HA is available… more » |
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Views 9,749 Comparisons 5,587 Reviews 8 Average Words per Review 462 Rating 8.6 | Views 26,802 Comparisons 17,836 Reviews 8 Average Words per Review 395 Rating 8.1 |
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Also Known As | |
| VMware Nicira | |
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| Cisco | VMware |
Overview | |
Cisco Tetration offers holistic workload protection for multicloud data centers by enabling a zero-trust model using segmentation. This approach allows you to identify security incidents faster, contain lateral movement and reduce your attack surface. Its infrastructure-agnostic approach supports both on-premises and public cloud workloads. | VMware NSX is the network virtualization platform for the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC). By bringing the operational model of a virtual machine to your data center network, you can transform the economics of network and security operations. NSX lets you treat your physical network as a pool of transport capacity, with network and security services attached to VMs with a policy-driven approach. |
Offer | |
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Sample Customers | |
| ADP, University of North Carolina Charlotte (UNCC) | City of Avondale, Lumeta, Kroll Ontrack, Heartland Payment Systems, Baystate Heallth, Exostar, Tribune Media, iGATE, NTT Communications, Synergent, California Natural Resources Agency, Bloomington Public Schools, Columbia Sportswear, Join Experience S.A, Schuberg Philis |
Top Industries | |
Comms Service Provider40% Computer Software Company24% Insurance Company4% Financial Services Firm3% | Retailer25% Manufacturing Company13% Financial Services Firm13% Comms Service Provider13% Comms Service Provider31% Computer Software Company29% Government4% Educational Organization4% |
Company Size | |
Small Business22% Large Enterprise78% Midsize Enterprise13% Large Enterprise87% | Small Business24% Midsize Enterprise15% Large Enterprise61% Small Business18% Midsize Enterprise11% Large Enterprise71% |
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco Tetration vs. VMware NSX and other solutions. Updated: January 2021.
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Cisco Tetration is ranked 4th in Cloud and Data Center Security with 8 reviews while VMware NSX is ranked 2nd in Cloud and Data Center Security with 8 reviews. Cisco Tetration is rated 8.8, while VMware NSX is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco Tetration writes "Saves time, resists attacks, and allocates resources properly". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional". Cisco Tetration is most compared with Guardicore Centra, Illumio Adaptive Security Platform, vRealize Network Insight, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks and Trend Micro Deep Security, whereas VMware NSX is most compared with Cisco ACI, Nutanix Flow, Cisco SD-WAN, Guardicore Centra and Juniper Contrail Networking. See our Cisco Tetration vs. VMware NSX report.
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