We performed a comparison between Juniper Contrail Networking and VMware NSX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Big Switch Networks, Juniper and others in Software Defined Networking (SDN)."It provides proactive alerting in a single dashboard solution."
"Juniper Contrail Networking is a stable solution."
"After we finished setting Contrail up, it seemed stable enough. Still, we never tested it in a real environment, so we don't have enough information to say whether it's stable with a given number of users and appliances. We have tested it in a lab environment, but we haven't tested enough to say that the platform is stable."
"The best part is the blueprint creation where I can create their things and then move on to the target environment."
"I really like the management dashboard, the tailor-made assurance, the telemetry, and the ease of integration with all other solutions of VMware, such as vSphere."
"Overall, I would say the solution has been quite stable."
"The solution is very good at micro-segmentation."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with the firewall."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create, develop, and deploy servers in minutes to hours, rather than days."
"Provides protection for virtual machines."
"I have found VMware NSX to be easy to use."
"Juniper Contrail Networking is difficult if you do not have a certificate for Juniper. Juniper is a different type of configuration or operation than Cisco."
"Visibility, especially for the top of the platform, is a nightmare. The top was documented incorrectly and really complex to complete. In the end, it worked but only after several weeks of work with the support of a Juniper solution engineer in Holland."
"Juniper needs to address the market's specific requirements, such as the SME sector, and offer more lower-priced products like a lower-end segment switch."
"A room for improvement in VMware NSX is that it has some security vulnerabilities, which means my company has to apply the patches every once in a while."
"Occasionally the licensing is not very clear. They should make it easier to understand."
"The technical support could use some improvement."
"There could be an improvement in regards to security."
"It might be nice to have more AI in the future."
"It still needs to grow. There are still some features that it doesn't do, like it doesn't do multicasting."
"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."
"VMware NSX could improve by having more compatibility with other none Window-based operating systems."
Juniper Contrail Networking is ranked 4th in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 3 reviews while VMware NSX is ranked 2nd in Network Virtualization with 93 reviews. Juniper Contrail Networking is rated 7.0, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Juniper Contrail Networking writes "Smart configuration management eliminates the need to worry about managing the network's configurations". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional". Juniper Contrail Networking is most compared with Tungsten Fabric, Cisco SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN, Cisco ACI and Juniper Session Smart Router, 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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