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.
Apart from the normal functionality, a few things are quite useful, including multi-cloud networking. They have container networking and load balancing. Those are quite useful in terms of when we are designing a solution.
It's a pretty mature platform right now.
The initial setup is straightforward.
We found the solution to be stable.
It's scalable.
I haven't found any shortcomings.
It might be nice to have more AI in the future. It would help keep us from redesigning every time.
I've worked with the solution for four years now.
The solution is stable and perfectly fine. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze.
The solution can scale well.
We had a user base of around 1200 people.
I dealt with tech support during pre-deployment, and they were fine. They were helpful when we were dealing with staging cases. I wasn't an active part of the actual deployment and can't speak of how helpful they were in that part of the process.
I was the previous architect for the NSX, not the implementer.
My understanding is the setup process is quite straightforward.
Our deployment was quite big. Including the staging and all the stuff, we were able to deploy in a four-month timeframe. That is not only NSX, that is the complete deployment of the cloud. We had a few issues here and there, however, overall, it was fine.
It's easy to maintain for the most part. The orchestration layer for it was a bit hectic work for us. That needed a dedicated VMware team. Apart from that, everything was quite smooth for NSX or vSphere, et cetera, and it is quite simple to manage it.
The finance team handles the licensing agreements. I can't speak to the exact cost.
When going for multiple OEM solutions, like Juniper, Cisco, HPE, et cetera, NSX will be quite useful. Don't go for the ACSIs and all Juniper proprietary options since future upgrades will be a bit tough if something needs to be added. Therefore, if it is a multiple OEM architecture, go for NSX, it'll be more helpful.
I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.