We performed a comparison between Juniper Contrail Networking and VMware NSX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Big Switch Networks, Juniper and others in Software Defined Networking (SDN)."Juniper Contrail Networking is a stable solution."
"After we finished setting Contrail up, it seemed stable enough. Still, we never tested it in a real environment, so we don't have enough information to say whether it's stable with a given number of users and appliances. We have tested it in a lab environment, but we haven't tested enough to say that the platform is stable."
"It provides proactive alerting in a single dashboard solution."
"We are happy with the scalability."
"The stability is great. That's one of the things that we can quantify and leverage through NSX, because it's less complex. We have the availability to manage multiple things at the same time. You can identify problems before they manifest."
"To be able to do the DR and SRM migrations from datacenter to datacenter, we're able to do them with SRM with VXLAN, with the NSX product."
"Though I haven't been working a lot on VMware NSX, it's good to have. What I like the most about it is that its console is good, and it doesn't take a lot of effort in terms of doing my daily tasks on it or what it's meant for. VMware NSX is still a preferred product in the market."
"I have found VMware NSX to be easy to use."
"The firewall is its most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of VMware NSX is the ease of use and its user friendly. For example, it is simple to change the subnet masks."
"The ability to scale from different clouds. At the moment, the scalability of the product is the number one thing that I saw."
"Juniper Contrail Networking is difficult if you do not have a certificate for Juniper. Juniper is a different type of configuration or operation than Cisco."
"Visibility, especially for the top of the platform, is a nightmare. The top was documented incorrectly and really complex to complete. In the end, it worked but only after several weeks of work with the support of a Juniper solution engineer in Holland."
"Juniper needs to address the market's specific requirements, such as the SME sector, and offer more lower-priced products like a lower-end segment switch."
"It isn't easy to deploy."
"The training costs a minimum of $3,000, which is expensive and should be reduced."
"An area for improvement in VMware NSX is that it uses up more resources and is heavy on the network. What I'd like to see in the next release of the solution is more automation."
"VMware NSX could improve by having more compatibility with other none Window-based operating systems."
"I would like them to make integration with other vendors easier."
"I want to see the solution expand to more than just the network, for example, perhaps it could provide some VLAN technologies."
"The support from VMware NSX could improve."
"VMware NSX only supports some platforms like KVM."
Juniper Contrail Networking is ranked 4th in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 3 reviews while VMware NSX is ranked 2nd in Network Virtualization with 93 reviews. Juniper Contrail Networking is rated 7.0, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Juniper Contrail Networking writes "Smart configuration management eliminates the need to worry about managing the network's configurations". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional". Juniper Contrail Networking is most compared with Tungsten Fabric, Cisco SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN, Cisco ACI and HPE SDN, 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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