We performed a comparison between Cisco APIC-EM [EOL] and VMware NSX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, VMware, Array Networks and others in Network Virtualization."The environment enables a DevOps culture, continuous delivery, and automated processes."
"Enabling business agility and accelerated time to market with the automated service delivery."
"Eliminating the IT administration silos for our datacenter and infrastructure by providing a single managed and converged infrastructure which provides unified compute, storage, and networking environment with a single point of management."
"VMware NSX is a very good solution. It's also a scalable solution."
"It gives more security and micro-segmentation. It helps to set network configurations in an easy way."
"The we can actually extend Layer 2 networking across datacenters, and also Layer 3 networking, which comes along with it."
"The micro-segmentation and the ability to create policy rules are valuable."
"It provides a single pane of glass. You can do the switching, routing, load balancing, IPS, IDS, etc. Everything is under one umbrella. So, there is no vendor dependency over there."
"VMware NSX's overlay network is its most valuable feature, as it aligns with any network philosophy and allows for efficient addressing mechanisms. Additionally, the ability to extend the on-premise network into the provider space is beneficial. There are many features provided."
"The dashboard is comprehensive and easy to use."
"NSX can reduce costs and has good service. It is easy for you and your users to use."
"Need a better workflow definition tool with tracking on existing provisioned services, and to improve multitasking in the workflow automation."
"I think that one of the more important things to see better integrated into the NSX product would be an IDS/IPS type solution."
"I would like them to make integration with other vendors easier."
"Traffic flow introspection topology visibility is definitely needed because at the moment, NSX-T lacks in this area."
"I would like to see automation capabilities in the deployment process."
"The price could be better. The non-enterprise version of the product should also be improved. I would like VMware to expand beyond the network and provide some VLAN technologies and more. I think we have one, but it's more on the distribution side because it's more on the upper side of the network. I'm looking forward to that."
"It could be cheaper!"
"Nowadays, NSX supports the KVM and ESXi hypervisors only. It should also support Hyper-V and Citrix hypervisors."
"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."
Earn 20 points
Cisco APIC-EM [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Network Virtualization while VMware NSX is ranked 2nd in Network Virtualization with 93 reviews. Cisco APIC-EM [EOL] is rated 8.0, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco APIC-EM [EOL] writes "Enabling business agility and accelerated time to market with the automated service delivery". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional". Cisco APIC-EM [EOL] is most compared with , 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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