VMware NSX Scalability

RW
Hybrid Consultant at Bechtle

There don't seem to be any issues with scalability. I'd rate it an eight out of ten in terms of scalability.

Most of our clients are small to medium enterprises.

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RN
VMware NSX T/V Consulting Engineer /Solutions Architect at Onebox Solutions

NSX-T is extremely scalable as a solution. Make sure that you plan your IP pools accordingly in advance if you plan to add many transport ESXi nodes in the future.

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Tarek Nader - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. vRA Consultant at VMware

NSX is scalable. You can deploy it on one node or a three-node cluster.

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RN
VMware NSX T/V Consulting Engineer /Solutions Architect at Onebox Solutions

No scalability issues encountered.

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Chris Nixon - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Infrastructure Architect at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees

The on-premises version of VMware NSX is not scalable.

The cloud version is most likely fine. I couldn't really say, but after the on-premise system was implemented, everyone was afraid of change. It was really flaky.

We don't have a large number of users. It is not used as such by people; it is a piece of infrastructure software.

There would have been less than half a dozen, not very many.

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Vijaykumar Vasoya - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Specialist at Systems and Information Technology Ltd

It provides excellent scalability capabilities. When it comes to micro-segmentation, it allows you to scale naturally. You can distribute firewall and load-balancing functionalities efficiently as your network grows. It also offers seamless integration with the physical network infrastructure, making it easy to extend your virtualized network into the physical world.

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SB
Virtualization admin at Bouygues Telecom Mobile

In terms of scalability, I would rate the solution a seven out of ten. Currently, VMware NSX is being used extensively in my company by approximately 1,000 end-users.

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MM
Cyber Security Division Head at TurnKey

It is a scalable product. 

We have around 1000 or more people on the solution. Our customers use the solution. We do not use it internally. 

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Santi-Lara Garcia - PeerSpot reviewer
Key Account Manager - Catalonia and Baleares Islands at Red Heart

The solution is scalable and can handle deployment to thousands of devices with no issues. 

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Venkateswar Ndt - PeerSpot reviewer
Controler at Emirates

VMware NSX is a scalable solution. We have about 10,000 people using it at our company.

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Eslam El-Sayaad - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solution Architect at BARQ Systems

NSX is easy to scale. 

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Grazvydas Govaras - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solution Architect at Danske

There are some limitations in terms of scaling. It depends on how you would like to scale. Our engineers are using it and they don't see any problems with the scaling, however, it doesn't mean the same will work for any other organization.

Currently, we have more than 10,000 end-users. Our technical team isn't really that big. However, I can't say the exact number.

We do plan to continue to use the solution, however, we don't have plans for any big expansion.

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ST
System Engineer at asa

There are three users in our organization who are using this solution.

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PW
VMware Administrator at Ryanair Holdings

We have not seen any problems, but we are only at 10 applications though. There is still a long way to go.

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AANKITGUPTAA - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Pi DATACENTERS

The solution can scale well. 

It is not a user-based solution. We deploy it to about 20 servers. 

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Ravishankar KumarPatel - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Analyst Cyber Security at Microland Limited

The solution can scale well. 

We had a user base of around 1200 people.

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AO
System engineir at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The scalability of VMware NSX is very good. However, you have to take into consideration that you have to study their documentation.

The amount of users or devices VMware NSX  can handle depends on the resource that you allocate to the Edges and to the management cluster. They are small, medium, and large. A large allocation can handle thousands of virtual machines. We mostly deploy medium to large-scale systems.

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HS
General Manager at SIEC SISTEMAS

We have maybe 2,000 users using the solution. We use them to move to new infrastructure.

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Mohamad Hammouda - PeerSpot reviewer
General Manager at Oplee

We have medium to enterprise-level customers for VMware NSX. Regarding scalability, we can add new nodes or servers to the cluster. It automatically extends in a horizontal scale-out approach when the nodes are added.

I rate the scalability a ten out of ten.

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FL
Head of SDN at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The solution's scalability depends on the licensing model.

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LK
Executive Engineer at ONGC

We have approximately 2,000 users using this solution.

VMware NSX scales well.

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Nicolas BARTHELEMY - PeerSpot reviewer
Network System & Storage Engineer at CIS VALLEY

It is a scalable product. It's not a problem.

There are about 3,000 VMs on our data center. There are a lot of customers.

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MohammedAlkikli - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Engineer at CEntral bank of Libya

VMware NSX is a scalable solution.

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SB
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

The solution is scalable. In the 2.4 version, the controller got merged to create the cluster manager, it now is even better.

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Suchit Patel - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Solutions Architect for Cloud and Data Center Group at Hitachi Systems Micro Clinic

I would rate NSX's scalability eight out of ten.

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Preshit Lanjekar - PeerSpot reviewer
Network SME at capgemini ltd

It can be scaled.

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Abbasi Poonawala - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Enterprise Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We have many users in our organization. There are approximately 50 administration and more than 300 users using this solution.

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Sriram Ranganathachari - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Architect and Datacenter Services at UCLOUD INDIA PVT LTD

The scalability of VMware NSX is similar to other solutions. It is scalable.

I rate the scalability of VMware NSX a seven out of ten.

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MU
Executive Officer 1B at Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC

The solution is scalable.

We have around 4,000 people using the solution.

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JP
Senior VMware NSX Consultant at 27 Virtual

We can easily scale the solution with the current product version if we have more users.

I rate VMware NSX a nine out of ten for scalability

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MR
Technical architect at Metanext

It is a scalable solution. Good to scale in and scale out, and add benefits resources. Customers use it across the globe.

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Ramesh Boopathi - PeerSpot reviewer
Competency Leader - Virtualization at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

VMware NSX can scale to any sized organization, small or large.

Our recent clients had approximately 1,000 users using this solution.

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AL
Information Security Manager at Anana LTD

We manage a huge infrastructure, and it has not been a problem for us. It has caused no issues.

We generally load balance with separate hardware. With the normal traffic that we see between virtual machines, they never leave the host. So, there are no real issues there. We will use separate, dedicated hardware, because we are at such a scale that our customers prefer to have separate load balances in the hardware.

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Ali Yazıcı - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Service Manager at Kuveyt Turk Participation Bank

The solution is scalable. 

We have approximately 10 users using this solution in my organization.

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AD
Cloud Article at Oracle

VMware NSX still has a lot of scalability limitations, and needs improvement on how it can scale.

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MadhuV - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Practice Head - Cloud and Platforms at Tech Mahindra Limited

The scalability is not a problem.

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Greffio Faraldo - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Operations Support at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees

My company has three users for the tool. We plan to increase the usage of the solution in future. 

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TH
Manager IT Security & Infrastructure at Currimjee Jeewanjee & Co. Ltd.

The solution is scalable, but we haven't tested that yet. We have three network engineers using the product. We don't plan to increase usage in the near future. 

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Ali Gursoy - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Cobantur

The solution is scalable.

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Tamoor Ali Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales Technical Consultant - Enterprise and Cybersecurity at Westcon ME

The great advantage of VMware is its scalability and hardware independence; The solution is compatible with a wide range of server brands, including Dell, Lenovo, HP, and Cisco.

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AA
Sales Manager at Dataworld Computer Center

The product is very scalable. I don't think NSX would have any problems with growth if a company wanted to expand their network and business. One person is enough to manage this solution.

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LC
Head of Business Development and Partners Management at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

It seems to scale. However, we don't have enough data in order to say how much clients scale out or the performance when a company is trying to scale out an NSX-T environment. We are not a cloud provider. We don't have a cloud environment to test it.

In terms of who is using it on our side, we have about five to seven people who have the operational capability on NSX-T. 

In our organization, we use only a small NSX-T cluster. We have a bigger one for our lab. I can't speak to the usage of our customers where we deployed it.

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it_user746712 - PeerSpot reviewer
EVS Engineer 3 at Cabela's

It's definitely scalable, however large, however small. We can bring people in with VDI desktops, with a control set already around that, to be able to control what they get without having to create a new VM and recreate all the policies. It's already done upfront.

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AL
Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Outside of the cloud infrastructure, it is the most scalable network product that I have worked with. It is used in a server farm that contains about 2,000 servers.

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FG
System Engineer at GIP SIB

It is scalable by design, so it's perfect.

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Claudio Sousa - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is scalable, and we have 20 users using this solution.

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MG
VMware NSX Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

So far it's been very scalable, and with the new versions that are coming out, it's even more and more scalable. They've added more and more features of routing that they didn't have in the first versions, which allow it to be more scalable. It's become better than the actual infrastructure, the original network infrastructure that's there, because we can lay it on anything and it will scale to any part of the network that we want.

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DS
Infrastructure Architect

We've already scaled it across two data centers. We'll be incorporating two additional data centers, to give us that footprint, or IP address migration across four data centers. So, it's quite scalable.

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WJ
Senior Cloud Consultant with 201-500 employees

The scalability capabilities have improved in NSX-T. It is much better than when the NSX-V version was out.

I work with two different clients, both of which are quite sizeable. They have thousands of machines and thousands of security groups.

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it_user730311 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Support Specialist at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees

It seems to be taking care of our whole environment. It seems to be pretty scalable.

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Leandro Pereira Rodrigues - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Analyst at RNP - Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa NREN/Brazil

The solution is scalable.

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TS
Technology Manager

Scalability is really easy. We can scale within an hour. We can scale either new controllers or add new hosts to the fabric.

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it_user746721 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at IronBow Technologies

It's one of the major benefits of it. The distributed nature of NSX is really what the customers are interested in: spread into workloads across a lot of servers and not working out one host too hard.

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CD
Security Services Specialist Individual Contributor at a tech company with 11-50 employees

VMware NSX, In terms of scalability, particularly at the enterprise level, is hectic. It's a complex process if you want to scale it compared to its competitors. It still depends, for example, if you've been in VM all your life or if you have been a VM administrator for a long time, you'll take comfort in something new, so people tend to go for it. If it's a new customer, an upgrade, or if the entire organization is going through a revamp, the process is quite complex. On a scale of one to five, I'll rate the scalability of VMware NSX a four.

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FL
President at AKAWAN

The solution is highly scalable. One of the biggest infrastructures we have deployed the solution in has approximately 70,000 people using the solution.

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SL
Architect at Computacenter

I have found this solution to be scalable, more so now with NSX-T than NSX-V.

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it_user746697 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer

Since we're almost 100% virtual, it's been very scalable for us.

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AA
Consultant at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

I haven't really dealt with scaling the solution. I can't speak to how it is. 

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MD
Technical Account Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The solution is scalable.

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IS
Sr. Technical Specialist at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

VMware NSX is highly scalable.

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PM
System Advisor IT at CRIF India

VMware NSX is a scalable solution.

NSX is not a user, product. NSX is for securing your virtualization platform.

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KO
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

You can scale NSX if you have the resources, but it's usually expensive and complex to scale up.

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BY
Manager at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have found the solution to be highly scalable.

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EP
Senior Technical Consultant at The Instillery

If you have a large environment, the sprawl of Distributed Logical Routers or logical switches can be hard to manage, but you will have the same issues in a physical network.

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AM
Solutions Architect at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

The scalability is good. 

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SR
Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

It seems like it will scale.

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AC
Consultant with 51-200 employees

The scalability comes along when you implement it. Within a couple of clicks, it makes the process so easy. This is why companies go for it.

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VM
COO at Axians ICT Austria GmbH

NSX-T is scalable, and we have approximately ten people who use it.

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MW
Lead at Accenture

We haven't face any problems yet with scalability. Hopefully, it will stay that way.

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SA
Senior Vice President at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

The solution is scalable.

We have approximately 200 employees using the solution.

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SA
System Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Because it is in the VMkernel, it is robust.

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MR
System Administrator

We are happy with the scalability.

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it_user730320 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Specialist at a tech services company

Scalability definitely looks awesome. Again the three environments we'll be able to use one set of tools. Everybody would be familiar with it. It won't operate this region and a different way in another region because it's from another vendor, where one set of tools would be able to pass throughout all of our regions. 

Our scale right now is about 60 users (the production and the customer).

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JT
Architect Enterprise Business at Mindfire Technologies LLC

The solution is scalable. I've implemented it in an organization with 2.000 servers and it's fine. That is my experience. I don't have experience with larger environments. 

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AS
Network Practice Lead at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I have not checked on the scalability, although from what I have read, it seems like there might be some concerns. I will know more once I get the opportunity to test it.

At this point, we have a team of just three people who are using it.

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it_user746727 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Engineer at IBM

Totally scalable. I almost can tell this is the first real multi-tenant product from VMware that will scale out and do real multitenancy.

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BW
Consultant at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

VMware NSX is a scalable solution.

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it_user229479 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
MU
System Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

It is scalable.

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ES
Engineer at DataLine - лучшая команда виртуализации VMware 2015

The scalability is not perfect. 

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CK
Dept. Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Scalability is a great feature. 

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Buyer's Guide
VMware NSX
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about VMware NSX. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.