VMware NSX Primary Use Case
I am currently working with Dell, as I am a Dell employee. I work with both Dell and non-Dell solutions in services.
I work in networking solutions, storage solutions, security solutions, and cloud solutions. For network management and troubleshooting, I work with open-source SDN solutions such as SONiC solutions.
SONiC solutions are for networking. It is similar to VMware NSX from Cisco, and it can control the LAN and data center switches under one layer of management. This is mainly what I work with, along with some products from Brocade.
Brocade is mainly for networking and data center networking, specifically for the connectivity between storage and network.
With VMware, I work not only with switches but also with vCenter, the entire VCF, the VMware Cloud Foundation, which includes VMware NSX, vCenter, Tanzu, and everything under the new licensing model of VMware.
I am in pre-sales, so I do not configure systems myself. I design, put the scope of work, and establish pricing. From the design perspective, I work with the Tanzu platform and everything under the VCF licensing model. When a customer purchases VCF from VMware, it comes with six to seven elements under this licensing model, and the customer needs everything to be working, from VMware NSX to Tanzu.
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Tomas Barcik
Senior VMware Administrator at Johnson Controls, Inc.
We use it for a software-defined network. We don't use it for much that it is capable of. Since we are corporate, we have different vendors and collaborations with Cisco and other providers. Some products are possibly duplicates.
View full review »I primarily use VMware NSX for improving security through micro-segmentation of our network. We have strict security regulations that require us to segregate different subnets, and NSX helps us efficiently manage this.
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We have our data center, and we also have cloud-based data centers. Most of the features which come with VMware NSX are used in the data center to run our core infrastructure.
We primarily use VMware NSX for automation and multi-cloud support.
We use the microsegmentation features of VMware NSX for isolating the workloads within different environments and for different customers.
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Nivendran NAir
Solutions Architect at BCX
We use VMware NSX for our cloud and public cloud environments in different data centers. It supports our network virtualization and data center operations.
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Efthymios Bliatis
Joint Staff Officer at Hellenic National Defence General Staff
Usually, when we are deployed for a period of two months, we have to program VMware NSX from the beginning and set up all the security measures.
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DieudonnéNsabimana
Presales Solutions Architect at Freelance
I am in a presales role, selling the VMware solution. The typical use case is vague due to the wide range of institutions that make up our customer base.
View full review »We host citizen-centric portals. They are web portals where citizens can enter and fetch data. For example, we have tax-related portals, health-related portals, and education-related portals. These are social welfare portals, and for that, we use AWS services.
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Brian Ford
Senior Architect at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees
It's what we use the CIS Benchmarks for. It's for employing hardening rules and keeping them up to date when things happen on our systems. So it's really configurations and stuff that harden and report back.
Now, some of the hardening we have in our configuration, so there's some overlap there, but actually running the benchmarks and enforcing the benchmarks as security rules, they don't have much built for that. They got nothing for AIX, and Linux is not where the CIS benchmarks are. So they're way behind on partnering.
View full review »NSX is used with vCloud Director to provide networking as a service or extend the capabilities of the load balancer, VPN, firewall, etc. There are two types of NSX. VMware's latest version is a product called NSX-T. It's a universal solution used across the VMware lineup and products like Hyper-V or the public cloud. You can use it on-prem or public cloud as well. NSX is used by the operations team, architects, and engineers. There are maybe 20 to 30 people using it.
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So Ben
Virtualization admin at Bouygues Telecom Mobile
We use the solution to establish a connection between our two sites using the same IPs. This is our primary use case.
View full review »We were using VMware NSX for high availability.
We recently used it to migrate a way to the public cloud.
I used to sell the solution as a bundled package. My role was to find the best solutions for customers from various vendors and work with our pre-sales and solution architecture departments to present these options. I provided high-level advice and my colleagues provided technical details.
Our customers used the solution for segmentation and automation to secure workloads in their lower computing layer. One customer was CaixaBank, an important financial institution in Spain.
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MostafaMourad
Cyber Security Division Head at TurnKey
The solution is mainly used for rolling virtual environments and private clouds. I use the product for my company and for other customers.
View full review »We use VMware NSX for application service deployments.
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Ettore Virzi
Systems and network services admin management at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees
VMware NSX helps create and operate on-demand networks. The solution is dynamic and flexible. Our company's principal use case for the product is to provide a network for private projects. VMware NSX is also used to link virtual networks with legal networks and develop a single environment that permits comprehending virtual and physical tasks.
View full review »Our primary focus is to create a layer that effectively connects to the remote site. This involves optimizing and accelerating the VXLend component, which is highly popular in our setup. We usually configure VXLend to enhance disaster recovery capabilities, specifically for applications that operate within the same subnet. This approach ensures that in the event of a disaster, such as a WAN failure or when external layers are inaccessible, there's no need to change IP addresses. It allows users to connect seamlessly from any location since the servers maintain the same subnet, and data replication occurs between the data centers. The result is minimal disruption and no requirement to modify configurations during these critical scenarios.
View full review »We're moving towards hyper-converged solutions with VMware, including NSX and vSAN. This direction has promising prospects in the market.
View full review »Our clients are moving from traditional to virtual infrastructure, so we sold them vSphere, vSAM, and NSX to manage all the workloads inside VMware. All the VMs work just like traditional infrastructure inside an appliance.
View full review »The solution is used for network virtualization. Normally, in my cases, I was billing it for the government clouds, for NIC, the National Informatics Computer of India. For them, I was making a cloud where a different government, a smaller government entity, wanted to buy a cloud from the government clouds.
View full review »NSX is under the platform. NSX is used on a cloud-only platform for clients.
View full review »It is for internal networking. Basically, we will be migrating the workloads to the cloud vCenter, and to manage those workloads, networking is required, which is called NSX in the VMware environment.
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LalitKumar7
Executive Engineer at ONGC
VMware NSX is used for server virtual machines.
View full review »We use the solution for our DMC firewall to micro-segment the networks for the CRUD matrix.
View full review »I primarily use the product as network virtualization software.
VMware NSX is a great product for network virtualization. No other vendor can offer this kind of solution up until now, and it's great for enhancing security at the virtual machine level. There is micro-segmentation, and a distributed firewall, and all network and network security components can be virtualized with the help of this NSX-T stack. It is a pioneer software solution for network security in a virtualized environment.
View full review »We use VMware NSX for micro-segmentation.
View full review »We use the product for disaster recovery purposes. It helps us expand the network and security for workloads running inside the environment. In the cloud, specifically with Azure VMware Solution or AWS, VMware NSX provides protection-related capabilities.
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Jay-P
Senior VMware NSX Consultant at 27 Virtual
I was part of the NSX troubleshooting team from VMware, where we worked with different customers to troubleshoot their NSX operational issues. Also, I was part of the design and deployment team. We do PSO projects and migration for customers.
View full review »The solution is primarily used for micro-segmentation for the security of virtual machines.
I use VMware NSX for virtualizing networks for VMware virtual machines.
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Tirut Hawoldar
Manager IT Security & Infrastructure at Currimjee Jeewanjee & Co. Ltd.
We use this solution for network virtualization alongside Nutanix and for the firewall blueprint. I'm an IT manager.
View full review »It is helping me get an entire blueprint done of the source and the target. I was able to make it into a catalog and can set up anything on the cloud quickly.
View full review »We use NSX as a security solution. The solution is deployed on-premise. We are using version 6.4 of NSX.
View full review »This is a product for network security, and network management.
We don't use it at the production level. I am conducting a PoC.
We are using this in our testing data center and not in our live data center. This infrastructure contains many security devices from other vendors such as Palo Alto.
We are also using vSAN and vCenter.
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MounirRaji
Technical architect at Metanext
The tool is very useful for cloud providers who need to manage things like Microsoft Enterprise.
View full review »We are using VMware NSX primarily to enable address mechanisms in terms of having to provide the workloads publicly.
In India and similar regions, the CSP faces a significant challenge. The primary issue is related to network address cancellation, which requires private to public IT mapping and the use of the CSP's own IP address space. VMware NSX has been effective in addressing this problem, along with the virtual firewall's ability to function as a network firewall. This has helped to minimize the need for customers to take responsibility for their network security. In these regions, customers expect full-service solutions and do not typically embrace DIY approaches. An analogy for this situation is that if a customer buys a toothbrush from you, they might expect you to brush their teeth for them.
View full review »I primarily use NSX for micro-segmentation, security, and load-balancing.
View full review »We are using VMware NSX for network security.
View full review »This product is a software-defined data center with a cloud-native approach. We mainly use it for application migration of some of the architecture to containerized solutions.
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Saurabh Bhattacharya
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Have used this solution to implement PAS (PCF) and have also used it for Native Datacenter networking as part of DC refresh.
View full review »We primarily use the solution in order to build a private cloud.
View full review »The solution is a software-defined firewall. You can set the policies and filter the incoming traffic from our site to our network. Any hostile request coming from an external network will get blocked.
View full review »The Environment was an active-active Tier-0 multi-site deployment (primary/secondary).
It contained compute and management clusters, and a small number of transport ESXi nodes (between five and six) v6.7u2, vCenter 6.7u2, AD.
The primary use case was to implement micro-segmentation and route production workloads through NSX-T via BGP. Our customer needed assurances that BGP routing within NSX-T would be efficient.
We implemented a very simple architecture and setup site with one NSX Manager as the primary source. This was a financial customer, thus security was the main item.
We had to explain to the customer that NSX-T deployment and micro-segmentation were two different projects explicitly.
View full review »We use this product for micro-segmentation and network function virtualization.
View full review »We use the solution for the software-defined network.
View full review »We use VMware NSX for box integration. If box integration is still a code, we use this technology to understand it.
VMware NSX can be used for micro-segmentation in the network space.
View full review »We are using VMware NSX for all our network needs.
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PrasadMane
System Advisor IT at CRIF India
Load balancing is achieved using VMware NSX. The load balancing feature provided with VMware vSphere is called NSX.
While using the virtual server with your on-premises trusted internal network, you can set up rules to prevent them from doing specific activities.
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Kolawole Olowoporoku
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Our main use case is the distributed firewall. NSX can segment every application and server based on the ports they need to communicate externally. Ports that aren't required are inactive, so we activate them for some specific applications. We can get the ports from the application guys, activate the ones we need, and then disable the rest of the ports. We've done other things with NSX, but it's just mostly about the distributed firewall.
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Madhura Direckze
Technical Account Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
VMware NSX is used for micro-segmentation. If you have a virtual VMware pool, then you can segment them separately. It is similar to a firewall for virtual micro-segmentation.
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Mohab Samy
VMware Technician Manager at VAS
It's very useful for making network configurations and setting the network configurations in an easy way. The infrastructure team has all of the components under these controls, that is, the infrastructure and the network itself.
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Shaikh Mubashshir
Cyber Security Technical Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
We use the solution to protect our VMware.
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Frederic LAPLAGNE
President at AKAWAN
We use the solution mainly for micro-segmentation and to permit security on flat networks without a V-LAN.
View full review »Our clients consist of enterprise companies.
View full review »I work with two different companies with different large cloud environments.
This product is a software-defined network, and that allows you to create virtual access networks and managing security to allow for different workloads.
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Vladimir Mlynar
COO at Axians ICT Austria GmbH
We use this product for software-defined networking. We are a solution provider and we build a platform for our clients that includes it.
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JimmyThomas
Architect Enterprise Business at Mindfire Technologies LLC
Many of our customers are moving to these kinds of options in order to reduce the number of physical devices and to increase security. I'm an architect of enterprise business and we are an enterprise partner with VMware.
View full review »Primary use case is to implement network virtualization for L2/L3 traffic in customers environment and at a minimum implement baseline micro segmentation. each customer has a different business requirement depending on how their existing network is setup --what physical L3 devices are in place and how NSX will need to be configured to function properly. Most customer using NSX V that we have worked with are running UCS servers or HP
with vsphere 6.7 /7 mid level transport node counts respectively etc.
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We use this solution to build our VMware platform.
View full review »We are a professional services company and we have been evaluating VMware NSX for our clients.
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Richard Lovelock
Information Security Programme Manager at Dixons Carphone
Our primary use case is moving from physical to VM infrastructure.
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Frederic Giovannacci
System Engineer at GIP SIB
We use it as a distributed firewall and for security purposes.
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We use this solution in our private clouds networking environment. We have some subsidiaries that we service and are trying to isolate each of them in this network.
View full review »Our customers had multiple data centers in different locations. Now, with NSX we built one fabric over an IP transport, like WAN internet. When we created the switches, it spread out over the data centers which are the configuration and the management of the underlying network for the VM workloads.
View full review »We just introduced NSX in our headquarters. We have it running in some labs, but no real experiences. We've been using it for six months.
Our objective is to know each features component and how it works. Depending on the business requirements, we would adapt the solution as needed. This is the reason why we work a lot from the maps and then anticipate when we need a new feature for our company.
View full review »We use this solution for extended on-premise capabilities. We've been using it for five years.
View full review »We support clients who use on-premise VMware NSX. We provide daily maintenance and support for this solution.
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SysEng189856
System Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
We use it for microsegmentation, and it has performed well.
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Adam Lowles
Information Security Manager at Anana LTD
The primary use case is the microsegmentation of all our infrastructure, which is a huge bonus. It's performed well.
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Andres Hurtado
Chief Executive Officer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Our primary use case is the integration with the platform, so we can use it to orchestrate everything from a single console. That's the magic of having everything in one single dashboard.
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Sysadm654651
System Administrator
My company's primary use case for this solution is the microsegmentation. It's futuristic.
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Evgeniy Stepanov
Engineer at DataLine - лучшая команда виртуализации VMware 2015
Our customers need load balance and firewalls with advanced NSX. They are really happy to use NSX.
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Archtct10001
Architect at Computacenter
Our primary use cases of this solution are hybrid, cloud, private cloud, and automation.
View full review »The primary use case is microsegmentation for other VMs, which should provide us great value. We are quite early in our use case of it. As for now, the performance is looking good.
The main reason for deploying the product was the possibility to isolate machines inside a VLAN from each other. It was also to have a local firewall with firewall profiles attached to the machines.
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Paul Walsh
VMware Administrator at Ryanair Holdings
We use it for microsegmentation. We're still in the middle of the project. We have 70 or 80 apps to microsegment and have only done about ten so far. We have a long way to go.
View full review »Our primary use case is to change from Cisco.
View full review »Usually customers, from the beginning, want state-of-the-art, latest technologies. They would like to rid themselves of their struggle with networking. This drives them to the next step, bringing in VMware services for implementing NSX.
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Mohammed Amine Lablan
aucun at None
I was an intern at a relatively large company here in Morocco, and NSX is a great solution.
View full review »We use NSX in our data center.
View full review »VMware NSX is used as a software-defined network. We used the solution in a data center.
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