We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Workload and VMware NSX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud and Data Center Security solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution offers 100% telemetry coverage. The telemetry you collect is not sampled, it's not intermittent. It's complete. You see everything in it, including full visibility of all activities on your endpoints and in your network."
"It's stable."
"Secure Workload's best feature is that it's an end-to-end offering from Cisco."
"NSX is good in managing security or controlling the security and the access control for each single VM."
"The best part is the blueprint creation where I can create their things and then move on to the target environment."
"The solution is easy to use and is good for management control."
"NSX extends Layer-2 scalability on Layer 3, covering the vRO and extending the capability on Layer 3 by decapsulating using a new mechanism. NSX-V was designed to use with VMware products and Success 360, providing more flexibility toward different levels of cloud, containers, and components. NSX-T gives you the ability to stretch your network across different view locations. If you have multiple sites, you can connect them using NSX-T."
"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."
"Over the last two years, they've enhanced a lot, especially in regard to integration with OpenStack."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Provides flexibility to deploy and have network virtualization on different types of firewalls."
"The integration could be better, especially with different types of solutions."
"Secure Workload is a little complicated to use, and the dashboard isn't intuitive, so it takes a while to learn how to use it."
"The multi-tenancy, redundancy, backup and restore functionalities, as well as the monitoring aspects of the solution, need improvement. The solution offers virtually no enterprise-grade possibility for monitoring."
"It could be more user-friendly, but it's manageable. When we add a specific node to this particular NSX and the configuration changes, it won't push through the errors where required, but it'll accept it. However, while using it, we will have issues. It can also be more stable."
"The solution is only sold as part of a bundle and not as an individual product."
"VMware NSX should be able to scale for different customers, even the big ones. Its scalability needs improvement. Stability for it should also be improved."
"I would rate NSX's stability eight out of ten - there's room for improvement."
"Occasionally the licensing is not very clear. They should make it easier to understand."
"NSX could better integrate with open-source products. Of course, it integrates with some, but I know many people are uncomfortable deploying NSX with certain open-source solutions, such as Radar."
"In the next release, they should enhance the visual interface. With NSX-T, it's difficult to communicate between the public cloud and the container."
"I want to see the solution expand to more than just the network, for example, perhaps it could provide some VLAN technologies."
Cisco Secure Workload is ranked 7th in Cloud and Data Center Security with 3 reviews while VMware NSX is ranked 2nd in Cloud and Data Center Security with 42 reviews. Cisco Secure Workload is rated 7.6, while VMware NSX is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Workload writes "User-friendly with a good UI and helpful support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Reliable and has a good console that requires less effort when using, but is resource-intensive and not as easy to scale". Cisco Secure Workload is most compared with Guardicore Centra, Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, vRealize Network Insight and Trend Micro Deep Security, whereas VMware NSX is most compared with Cisco ACI, Nutanix Flow Network Security, Guardicore Centra, Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation and Trend Micro Deep Security. See our Cisco Secure Workload vs. VMware NSX report.
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