VMware NSX Primary Use Case
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Roger Nurse
VMware NSX T/V Consulting Engineer /Solutions Architect at Onebox Solutions
The Environment was an active-active Tier-0 multi-site deployment (primary/secondary).
It contained compute and management clusters, and a small number of transport ESXi nodes (between five and six) v6.7u2, vCenter 6.7u2, AD.
The primary use case was to implement micro-segmentation and route production workloads through NSX-T via BGP. Our customer needed assurances that BGP routing within NSX-T would be efficient.
We implemented a very simple architecture and setup site with one NSX Manager as the primary source. This was a financial customer, thus security was the main item.
We had to explain to the customer that NSX-T deployment and micro-segmentation were two different projects explicitly.
View full review »NSX is used with vCloud Director to provide networking as a service or extend the capabilities of the load balancer, VPN, firewall, etc. There are two types of NSX. VMware's latest version is a product called NSX-T. It's a universal solution used across the VMware lineup and products like Hyper-V or the public cloud. You can use it on-prem or public cloud as well. NSX is used by the operations team, architects, and engineers. There are maybe 20 to 30 people using it.
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Roger Nurse
VMware NSX T/V Consulting Engineer /Solutions Architect at Onebox Solutions
Primary use case is to implement network virtualization for L2/L3 traffic in customers environment and at a minimum implement baseline micro segmentation. each customer has a different business requirement depending on how their existing network is setup --what physical L3 devices are in place and how NSX will need to be configured to function properly. Most customer using NSX V that we have worked with are running UCS servers or HP
with vsphere 6.7 /7 mid level transport node counts respectively etc.
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We were using VMware NSX for high availability.
We recently used it to migrate a way to the public cloud.
Our primary focus is to create a layer that effectively connects to the remote site. This involves optimizing and accelerating the VXLend component, which is highly popular in our setup. We usually configure VXLend to enhance disaster recovery capabilities, specifically for applications that operate within the same subnet. This approach ensures that in the event of a disaster, such as a WAN failure or when external layers are inaccessible, there's no need to change IP addresses. It allows users to connect seamlessly from any location since the servers maintain the same subnet, and data replication occurs between the data centers. The result is minimal disruption and no requirement to modify configurations during these critical scenarios.
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So Ben
Virtualization admin at Bouygues Telecom Mobile
We use the solution to establish a connection between our two sites using the same IPs. This is our primary use case.
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MostafaMourad
Cyber Security Division Head at TurnKey
The solution is mainly used for rolling virtual environments and private clouds. I use the product for my company and for other customers.
View full review »I used to sell the solution as a bundled package. My role was to find the best solutions for customers from various vendors and work with our pre-sales and solution architecture departments to present these options. I provided high-level advice and my colleagues provided technical details.
Our customers used the solution for segmentation and automation to secure workloads in their lower computing layer. One customer was CaixaBank, an important financial institution in Spain.
View full review »We use VMware NSX for application service deployments.
View full review »Our clients are moving from traditional to virtual infrastructure, so we sold them vSphere, vSAM, and NSX to manage all the workloads inside VMware. All the VMs work just like traditional infrastructure inside an appliance.
View full review »We primarily use the solution in order to build a private cloud.
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MD.SIHAB TALUKDAR
System Engineer at asa
This is a product for network security, and network management.
We don't use it at the production level. I am conducting a PoC.
We are using this in our testing data center and not in our live data center. This infrastructure contains many security devices from other vendors such as Palo Alto.
We are also using vSAN and vCenter.
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Paul Walsh
VMware Administrator at Ryanair Holdings
We use it for microsegmentation. We're still in the middle of the project. We have 70 or 80 apps to microsegment and have only done about ten so far. We have a long way to go.
View full review »I primarily use the product as network virtualization software.
VMware NSX is a great product for network virtualization. No other vendor can offer this kind of solution up until now, and it's great for enhancing security at the virtual machine level. There is micro-segmentation, and a distributed firewall, and all network and network security components can be virtualized with the help of this NSX-T stack. It is a pioneer software solution for network security in a virtualized environment.
View full review »The solution is used for network virtualization. Normally, in my cases, I was billing it for the government clouds, for NIC, the National Informatics Computer of India. For them, I was making a cloud where a different government, a smaller government entity, wanted to buy a cloud from the government clouds.
View full review »We use the product for disaster recovery purposes. It helps us expand the network and security for workloads running inside the environment. In the cloud, specifically with Azure VMware Solution or AWS, VMware NSX provides protection-related capabilities.
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LalitKumar7
Executive Engineer at ONGC
VMware NSX is used for server virtual machines.
View full review »NSX is under the platform. NSX is used on a cloud-only platform for clients.
View full review »We're moving towards hyper-converged solutions with VMware, including NSX and vSAN. This direction has promising prospects in the market.
View full review »I use VMware NSX for virtualizing networks for VMware virtual machines.
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Saurabh Bhattacharya
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Have used this solution to implement PAS (PCF) and have also used it for Native Datacenter networking as part of DC refresh.
View full review »I primarily use NSX for micro-segmentation, security, and load-balancing.
View full review »It is for internal networking. Basically, we will be migrating the workloads to the cloud vCenter, and to manage those workloads, networking is required, which is called NSX in the VMware environment.
View full review »The solution is a software-defined firewall. You can set the policies and filter the incoming traffic from our site to our network. Any hostile request coming from an external network will get blocked.
View full review »We are using VMware NSX primarily to enable address mechanisms in terms of having to provide the workloads publicly.
In India and similar regions, the CSP faces a significant challenge. The primary issue is related to network address cancellation, which requires private to public IT mapping and the use of the CSP's own IP address space. VMware NSX has been effective in addressing this problem, along with the virtual firewall's ability to function as a network firewall. This has helped to minimize the need for customers to take responsibility for their network security. In these regions, customers expect full-service solutions and do not typically embrace DIY approaches. An analogy for this situation is that if a customer buys a toothbrush from you, they might expect you to brush their teeth for them.
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Manoj Udaya Kumara
Executive Officer 1B at Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC
We use the solution for our DMC firewall to micro-segment the networks for the CRUD matrix.
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Jay-P
Senior VMware NSX Consultant at 27 Virtual
I was part of the NSX troubleshooting team from VMware, where we worked with different customers to troubleshoot their NSX operational issues. Also, I was part of the design and deployment team. We do PSO projects and migration for customers.
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MounirRaji
Technical architect at Metanext
The tool is very useful for cloud providers who need to manage things like Microsoft Enterprise.
View full review »We use VMware NSX for micro-segmentation.
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Adam Lowles
Information Security Manager at Anana LTD
The primary use case is the microsegmentation of all our infrastructure, which is a huge bonus. It's performed well.
View full review »We are using VMware NSX for network security.
View full review »It is helping me get an entire blueprint done of the source and the target. I was able to make it into a catalog and can set up anything on the cloud quickly.
View full review »We use the solution for the software-defined network.
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Tirut Hawoldar
Manager IT Security & Infrastructure at Currimjee Jeewanjee & Co. Ltd.
We use this solution for network virtualization alongside Nutanix and for the firewall blueprint. I'm an IT manager.
View full review »We use NSX as a security solution. The solution is deployed on-premise. We are using version 6.4 of NSX.
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Andres Hurtado
Chief Executive Officer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Our primary use case is the integration with the platform, so we can use it to orchestrate everything from a single console. That's the magic of having everything in one single dashboard.
View full review »The solution is primarily used for micro-segmentation for the security of virtual machines.
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reviewer1039620
Head of Business Development and Partners Management at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
This product is a software-defined data center with a cloud-native approach. We mainly use it for application migration of some of the architecture to containerized solutions.
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Richard Lovelock
Information Security Programme Manager at Dixons Carphone
Our primary use case is moving from physical to VM infrastructure.
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manager813261
Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
We use this product for micro-segmentation and network function virtualization.
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Frederic Giovannacci
System Engineer at GIP SIB
We use it as a distributed firewall and for security purposes.
View full review »We use VMware NSX for box integration. If box integration is still a code, we use this technology to understand it.
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reviewer1551519
Mechanical Maintenance Manager at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees
Our clients consist of enterprise companies.
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reviewer1164561
Senior Cloud Consultant with 201-500 employees
I work with two different companies with different large cloud environments.
This product is a software-defined network, and that allows you to create virtual access networks and managing security to allow for different workloads.
View full review »VMware NSX can be used for micro-segmentation in the network space.
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Technolo19ac
Technology Manager
Our customers had multiple data centers in different locations. Now, with NSX we built one fabric over an IP transport, like WAN internet. When we created the switches, it spread out over the data centers which are the configuration and the management of the underlying network for the VM workloads.
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Frederic LAPLAGNE
President at AKAWAN
We use the solution mainly for micro-segmentation and to permit security on flat networks without a V-LAN.
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Archtct10001
Architect at Computacenter
Our primary use cases of this solution are hybrid, cloud, private cloud, and automation.
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Madhura Direckze
Technical Account Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
VMware NSX is used for micro-segmentation. If you have a virtual VMware pool, then you can segment them separately. It is similar to a firewall for virtual micro-segmentation.
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reviewer1299408
Sr. Technical Specialist at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
We use this solution to build our VMware platform.
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PrasadMane
System Advisor IT at CRIF India
Load balancing is achieved using VMware NSX. The load balancing feature provided with VMware vSphere is called NSX.
While using the virtual server with your on-premises trusted internal network, you can set up rules to prevent them from doing specific activities.
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Kolawole Olowoporoku
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Our main use case is the distributed firewall. NSX can segment every application and server based on the ports they need to communicate externally. Ports that aren't required are inactive, so we activate them for some specific applications. We can get the ports from the application guys, activate the ones we need, and then disable the rest of the ports. We've done other things with NSX, but it's just mostly about the distributed firewall.
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EmeaInfr6d8d
EMEA Infrastructure Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We just introduced NSX in our headquarters. We have it running in some labs, but no real experiences. We've been using it for six months.
Our objective is to know each features component and how it works. Depending on the business requirements, we would adapt the solution as needed. This is the reason why we work a lot from the maps and then anticipate when we need a new feature for our company.
View full review »We use NSX in our data center.
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Solution2aa6
Solutions Architect at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
We use this solution for extended on-premise capabilities. We've been using it for five years.
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Engineered72
Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
The primary use case is microsegmentation for other VMs, which should provide us great value. We are quite early in our use case of it. As for now, the performance is looking good.
The main reason for deploying the product was the possibility to isolate machines inside a VLAN from each other. It was also to have a local firewall with firewall profiles attached to the machines.
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Consudee5
Consultant with 51-200 employees
Usually customers, from the beginning, want state-of-the-art, latest technologies. They would like to rid themselves of their struggle with networking. This drives them to the next step, bringing in VMware services for implementing NSX.
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Vladimir Mlynar
COO at Axians ICT Austria GmbH
We use this product for software-defined networking. We are a solution provider and we build a platform for our clients that includes it.
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Lead06b9
Lead at Accenture
We support clients who use on-premise VMware NSX. We provide daily maintenance and support for this solution.
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reviewer1539471
Senior Vice President at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
We are using VMware NSX for all our network needs.
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Mohammed Amine Lablan
aucun at None
I was an intern at a relatively large company here in Morocco, and NSX is a great solution.
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Mohab Samy
VMware Technician Manager at VAS
It's very useful for making network configurations and setting the network configurations in an easy way. The infrastructure team has all of the components under these controls, that is, the infrastructure and the network itself.
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SysEng189856
System Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
We use it for microsegmentation, and it has performed well.
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Sysadm654651
System Administrator
My company's primary use case for this solution is the microsegmentation. It's futuristic.
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reviewer1553184
Cyber Security Technical Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
We use the solution to protect our VMware.
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JimmyThomas
Architect Enterprise Business at Mindfire Technologies LLC
Many of our customers are moving to these kinds of options in order to reduce the number of physical devices and to increase security. I'm an architect of enterprise business and we are an enterprise partner with VMware.
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reviewer1333941
Network Practice Lead at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We are a professional services company and we have been evaluating VMware NSX for our clients.
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reviewer993597
Consultant at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
VMware NSX is used as a software-defined network. We used the solution in a data center.
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SystemEn1ee7
System Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Our primary use case is to change from Cisco.
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Evgeniy Stepanov
Engineer at DataLine - лучшая команда виртуализации VMware 2015
Our customers need load balance and firewalls with advanced NSX. They are really happy to use NSX.
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DeptMgr4ea4
Dept. Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We use this solution in our private clouds networking environment. We have some subsidiaries that we service and are trying to isolate each of them in this network.
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