VMware SD-WAN Primary Use Case
Our clients use the product for connectivity in their headquarters and branches. They use the product for cloud connectivity in their branches.
View full review »For our light branches and remote workers deploying secure connections, VMware is much more when you're looking to make direct connections to the cloud, especially where you don't necessarily have a lot of on-prem data. We have data centers where all our information is stored with the help of VMware. VMware SD-WAN is also good for everything in Microsoft 365 or Azure.
I am an infrastructure architect and I use SD-WAN to connect sites for clients. My client is a bank and they are planning a wireless connection where you put SIM cards on the SD-WAN.
Buyer's Guide
VMware SD-WAN
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about VMware SD-WAN. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
768,246 professionals have used our research since 2012.
VMware SD-WAN is nice for enterprise connectivity.
View full review »We use the solution as an SD-WAN; we provide one connectivity with MPLS service on remote premises or virtually. By that, I mean anywhere on the planet. We have something like 190 or 200 sites being rolled out on all continents, with stuff in Japan and soon to come in Korea and China. We have a site in the USA, Norway, Sweden, Italy, France, and the UK.
It's part of a SaaS (software as a service) solution.
We are using VMware only on some of our setups. For most of it, we are using custom development. We are using the VMware solution only when we have no other choices, either due to the fact that the customer doesn't want us to come with a custom solution and prefer an off-the-shelf standard that is a fully supported solution by a third party. We prefer to come up with our own custom SD-WAN solution whenever we can.
RA
reviewer1433172
ISM Network Architect at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
I work for a supply chain and we have a site where we want to offload the internet traffic and get to the application, etc. Some of the cloud applications go out directly and automatically through the SD-WAN device to the internet, so it is local and does not go to the MPLS. We can load balance those applications.
View full review »My company uses this solution to migrate workloads between clouds. When doing quality assurance testing or developing a new release, we'll move environments back and forth.
AK
AtulKumar3
Network lead at SDGC
It is a valuable solution for organizations facing the challenge of managing networks across multiple locations. Its centralized console allows for easy network administration, addressing the complexity of handling numerous devices across various sites.
View full review »Our customers are using VMware SD-WAN based on their specific requirements. One of the main use cases is for WAN connectivity and disaster recovery connections. They need secure connections and database synchronization between primary sites and disaster recovery sites. That's why we introduced VMware SD-WAN.
View full review »VMware SD-WAN can be deployed on the cloud and on-premise. We use Microsoft and AWS as our cloud services.
View full review »VM
reviewer1615644
Senior Lead Network Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Our main use cases have been for customers who have been traditionally using MPLS lines and are now moving into a lot more SaaS-based applications to transform the WAN infrastructure. A lot of our customers have end-of-life, end-of-support devices on the WAN and they are always looking for doing RFPs on cutting edge technology. Some of them happen to use a lot of VMware and Cisco portfolios in their data centers and they are constantly trying to see what solution fits best for them.
MS
reviewer2235369
Virtual Cloud Networking Specialist at a consultancy with self employed
The platform's use cases extend to various industries, including retail, where it helps security policies around POPs and implements SASE. It also enhances network visibility and the endpoints.
View full review »SF
reviewer2071341
Senior Network Engineer at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
We use VMware SD-WAN to connect our network globally.
View full review »TM
reviewer1541070
Director Solutions Engineering at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
a customer seeking to deploy an SD-WAN environment via 2 alternate stable methods either in a virtual environment or a physical device depending upon their site-specific requirements.
View full review »CS
Chih-Feng Shen
Senior Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
We are installing edge to support the service providers' enterprise customers. There's a standard hardware edge.
View full review »MG
MichaelGraham
Founding-Partner Executive at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
Our only use cases are large multinational enterprise customers, as well as very large service providers. The solutions get deployed to the public cloud or to the private cloud depending on the user's requirements.
View full review »TT
Thuy Truong
Administrator at SOURTHERN WAVES Solution
One of the key use cases for VMware SD-WAN was assisting a customer in the industrial zone. They required virtualized servers and wanted to enable VMware SD-WAN to connect their sites in Japan or China. We assisted in building the system by integrating VMware servers and utilizing the Cisco suite.
View full review »JB
Joel Bacaycay
CIO at Freelance IT Engineer
The biggest benefit to SD-WAN is with VoIP. Any real-time data transfer where you cannot have any latency and packet delivery.
What VeloCloud provides is a solution that maintains data integrity.
The biggest challenge for voice over IP telephone systems, are real-time and also video, and any kind of video conferencing.
That type of thing, if there are any latencies, you're going to get trashy voice calls and also a lot of intermittent ghosting on conference calls. That's where VeloCloud comes in. They provide a resilient connectivity points system.
Your connectivity is pretty much preserved.
View full review »MK
reviewer1898562
Network Analyst at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
The use case is mainly just communication between the branch offices or the branches. That's pretty much it, the communication between the branches.
Also, currently, we're doing what we call a PCI segmentation as well.
NE
reviewer1385268
Technical Lead at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
We use it for connecting multiple sites through the internet.
Typically, our clients are medium-sized businesses.
View full review »GV
reviewer1775670
Senior Solution Architect at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
We use VMware SD-WAN on the cloud and we use our own cloud.
The solution is used by our customers for putting their IT infrastructure in the Cloud and bridge to connect for retail. We have a very big string of customers moving their workplaces into the Cloud. This calls for a new topology and this is where VMware SD-WAN is the best fit.
View full review »AO
Abdulmuez Omar
IT Manager
The solution offers ISP support for customers.
View full review »VMware SD-WAN is used for security and virtualization.
View full review »SS
Sudeesh S
Senior Network Consultant at a security firm with 51-200 employees
We use VMware to install some servers and virtual appliances.
It can be deployed on cloud and on-premises.
We have a team of five engineers.
Only one of our customers uses this solution. They're a medium-size enterprise.
View full review »MP
reviewer1384419
Principal Sales Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use VeloCloud as our SD-WAN solution.
View full review »VMware SD-WAN is a layer 7 firewall.
View full review »JL
Jans Lien
Senior Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
We use this solution to increase our network bandwidth between sites in our company. For example, there are two internet lines and one NPOS network in Taipei and one SD-WAN solution in Poland. The VCE connects these lines and networks to our LAN switch which increases our bandwidth.
DG
Donny Gunawan
General Manager at Smartfren
I use VeloCloud for software for reports SD-WAN solutions and WAN connectivity.
RM
Rodrigo Munoz
IT Network Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We use VMware SD-WAN primarily to connect branch offices to our data center and to connect users to the application. Users could be in any place, working from home, in remote locations, and branch offices. Applications can be anywhere in the cloud in IaaS, in the platform as a service, on-premise, and at private data centers. The deployment process of SD-WAN is to connect securely so users with the application can perform well.
View full review »SB
reviewer1489278
Partner at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
My company works with a wide range of SD-WAN services to bring such solutions to clients.
The use cases depend, as they vary from client to client. One of them is application prioritization, and cost always comes into play when replacing a traditional MPLS network.
View full review »MU
Manoj Udaya Kumara
Executive Officer 1B at Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC
We primarily use VeloCloud for SD-WAN.
View full review »MH
MohamedHassan
Regional Technical Manager at Nestingtech
We are a reseller and this is one of the solutions that we provide to our customers.
The use case is dependent on the customer and their requirements, but the primary use is as an SD-WAN. It helps our customers streamline their configuration, it improves link recovery, and helps them better manage their environment.
View full review »PW
Paul Woods
Founder at SDWAN Clan
The primary use cases of this solution are global WAN refreshment, Campus-to-Campus connectivity, and because my client is a global customer, they want zero-touch provisioning.
View full review »YZ
reviewer1751523
Network Offering Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We use VMware SD-WAN for network security.
View full review »GB
reviewer1691751
Principal Network Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
I have deployed this solution, but just for a proof of concept. This solution is cloud-based.
View full review »RK
reviewer1323078
IT Information Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Our primary use case for this solution is in companies that have multiple office locations, say a minimum of 10. They are connected to the internet using line or broadband internet connectivity. There can be a lot of fluctuations and connectivity issues so bandwidth is our current focus. VeloCloud is a software layer which helps customers manage the connectivity in the console. In the event that there is any downtime coming up into the secondary line of the bandwidth, the language will be correct. The solution proactively detects where the problem could happen or could arise. Users who are using the applications would not even know whether there was a downtime.
RP
Rein Pusra
Solutions Architect at Jedi Global Teknologi
We are a solution provider and this is one of the products that we implement for our customers. Our customers use VeloCloud to create their own SD-WAN.
View full review »AH
reviewer1288173
Network and Telecommunications Team Leader at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We primarily use VMware SD-WAN for connectivity.
View full review »BV
reviewer1593534
Cloud & Network team lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The primary use case of this solution is manageability. Everything is controlled from a central aspect of the orchestrator.
View full review »GT
reviewer1350429
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I am a consultant with a solution provider and this is one of the products that we advise our clients on. We do not implement solutions as part of our offering.
View full review »MC
reviewer1503924
Telecommunicatios and Electronics Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We use this solution to virtualize the data centers. If you don't want to have a lot of servers in your data center, you can virtualize it with VMware.
The networking virtualization can be done with NSX.
Every switch and every firewall can be virtualized.
View full review »Buyer's Guide
VMware SD-WAN
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about VMware SD-WAN. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
768,246 professionals have used our research since 2012.