We performed a comparison between OpenText Network Automation and VMware NSX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Red Hat, SolarWinds and others in Network Automation."When compared with SolarWinds, it is more user-friendly, and tasks can be completed more quickly."
"Pushing the network configuration to bulk devices. This saves a considerable amount of time that the engineer spends in pushing the network configuration."
"The most valuable features of VMware NSX are the tight integration with the VMware Hypervisor natively and the management console. We have a lot of other integrations where you are able to see the virtual machine's end-to-end visibility."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It does have capabilities of micro-segmenting a network, being able to create smaller segments of various types of applications separated by various tiers."
"The most valuable features for us at this early stage are the interface and the integration with existing VMware solutions."
"The most valuable features are stability and low cost."
"The Distributed firewall is simple to add to the network and rules are easy to implement."
"The microsegmentation is a good feature. You can segment details, products, or hardware information."
"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."
"Level one administration task can be defined in Micro Focus Network Automation but it could be more simplified."
"Compatibility of the devices needs to be enhanced, as it seems to be limited."
"We've have had good and bad experiences with them. We don't always find them to be so impactful. Sometimes the support guy isn't so on top of resolving the issue and it can take a while to sort out."
"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."
"There were some issues with finance and other accounting."
"The support from VMware NSX could improve."
"We would like tenant segmentation available in future releases."
"It's not feature-rich."
"Our technical team is always looking for the solutions that they work with to offer more convenient integrations."
"I would rate this product an eight because it's a good product but it needs more work. They should fix some of the bugs."
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OpenText Network Automation is ranked 12th in Network Automation while VMware NSX is ranked 4th in Network Automation with 93 reviews. OpenText Network Automation is rated 7.2, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of OpenText Network Automation writes "Helps the configuration backup be validated before and after any change in the network infrastructure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional". OpenText Network Automation is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, BackBox, NetBrain and BMC TrueSight Network Automation, 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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