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VMware NSX pros and cons

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PROS

VMware NSX allows consistent networking and security policies across different environments, greatly enhancing business operations and compliance.
Micro-segmentation in VMware NSX is highly regarded for improving security by enabling detailed segmentation of applications and managing access control for virtual machines.
VMware NSX offers impressive scalability across multiple cloud environments, simplifying network management and integration with other VMware products.
VMware NSX includes a distributed firewall that provides advanced security features, allowing dynamic configuration of network policies and offering robust protection for workloads.
VMware NSX is recognized for its stability, offering high performance and reliability, with top-notch technical support to assist with operations and ensure seamless integration.

CONS

VMware NSX has high licensing costs, which pose a challenge compared to competitors.
Initial setup and configuration of VMware NSX can be complex and time-consuming.
There are integration issues with other brands and existing network infrastructures.
VMware NSX lacks certain features like full OSPF integration and multicasting.
Scalability and stability have room for improvement in VMware NSX.
 

VMware NSX Pros review quotes

DS
Owner at David Strom Inc.
Dec 10, 2014
What makes them unique is their range of discovery, the way they can effectively mimic actual PC or smartphone endpoints to examine malware behavior.
it_user102570 - PeerSpot reviewer
Pre-Sales Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Feb 16, 2016
With Lastline, the effort to put in into the protecting the users against zero-day threats and malware can be subsequently reduced.
it_user229479 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 8, 2016
We have deployed it in a virtual environment and it saved a lot of time and effort for us to configure.
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it_user174999 - PeerSpot reviewer
VMware NSX T/V Consulting Engineer /Solutions Architect at Onebox Solutions
Nov 18, 2020
It has allowed our customers to scale extend their existing IP subnets and spin up new subnets on-demand for new app web DB tiers, increasing overall VM-to-VM security and policy deployments and helping increase operational efficiency from a network management perspective.
EP
Senior Technical Consultant at The Instillery
Aug 11, 2017
The ease in which to install this product and make it work straight away without minimum changes in your physical network is simply astonishing.
it_user730320 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Specialist at a tech services company
Sep 3, 2017
The ability to scale from different clouds. At the moment, the scalability of the product is the number one thing that I saw.
it_user746691 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solutions Architect at SMP
Oct 1, 2017
It does have capabilities of micro-segmenting a network, being able to create smaller segments of various types of applications separated by various tiers.
it_user746697 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer
Oct 1, 2017
They developed the hypervisor, which is very valuable to us, because it has saved us a lot of money just on the micro-segmentation piece.
MG
VMware NSX Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Oct 1, 2017
NSX gives us the ability to put our network, NSX, onto any network there is, which allows us not to have to go to the network team to create networks our VLANs for networks.
it_user746712 - PeerSpot reviewer
EVS Engineer 3 at Cabela's
Oct 1, 2017
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.
 

VMware NSX Cons review quotes

DS
Owner at David Strom Inc.
Dec 10, 2014
It is a bit tricky to install the various components and to get it set up properly.
it_user102570 - PeerSpot reviewer
Pre-Sales Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Feb 16, 2016
Lastline is not a cheap product if compared with their competitors.
it_user229479 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 8, 2016
Speed of the NSX Controllers while deploying sometimes gets a bit slower which can be improved, overall its a great product
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it_user174999 - PeerSpot reviewer
VMware NSX T/V Consulting Engineer /Solutions Architect at Onebox Solutions
Nov 18, 2020
NSX V has less security features than NSX T just so you are aware
EP
Senior Technical Consultant at The Instillery
Aug 11, 2017
In some cases, we had to uninstall and install from scratch NSX and restore from backup, which in a real world scenario won't be desirable to do.
it_user730320 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Specialist at a tech services company
Sep 3, 2017
Pricing and licensing could be improved as we are a government entity.
it_user746691 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solutions Architect at SMP
Oct 1, 2017
I think that one of the more important things to see better integrated into the NSX product would be an IDS/IPS type solution.
it_user746697 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer
Oct 1, 2017
Sometimes, it can be difficult to get to a higher level engineer if you need to, but it takes some work to make that case.
MG
VMware NSX Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Oct 1, 2017
It still needs to grow. There are still some features that it doesn't do, like it doesn't do multicasting.
it_user746712 - PeerSpot reviewer
EVS Engineer 3 at Cabela's
Oct 1, 2017
Just being more knowledgeable about the different functions.