2018-06-29T06:40:00Z

What is your primary use case for VMware NSX?

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Mohamad Hammouda - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2024-01-25T14:35:19Z
Jan 25, 2024

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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JP
Consultant
Top 5
2024-01-25T13:29:46Z
Jan 25, 2024

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.

Vijaykumar Vasoya - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2023-09-19T16:28:04Z
Sep 19, 2023

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.

Waqar_Ahmad - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant
Top 10
2023-09-04T07:00:00Z
Sep 4, 2023

We're moving towards hyper-converged solutions with VMware, including NSX and vSAN. This direction has promising prospects in the market.

Greffio Faraldo - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2023-05-11T09:02:00Z
May 11, 2023

We use the solution for the software-defined network.

SB
Real User
Top 20
2023-04-19T13:15:00Z
Apr 19, 2023

We use the solution to establish a connection between our two sites using the same IPs. This is our primary use case.

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Sriram Ranganathachari - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2023-03-22T12:20:14Z
Mar 22, 2023

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.

LK
Real User
Top 20
2023-03-16T12:30:00Z
Mar 16, 2023

VMware NSX is used for server virtual machines.

Suchit Patel - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 20
2023-02-28T08:14:18Z
Feb 28, 2023

I primarily use NSX for micro-segmentation, security, and load-balancing.

Tamoor Ali Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant
Top 20
2023-02-01T14:52:52Z
Feb 1, 2023

The solution is primarily used for micro-segmentation for the security of virtual machines.

Eslam El-Sayaad - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2023-01-13T15:43:29Z
Jan 13, 2023

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.

MohammedAlkikli - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 20
2022-12-05T15:48:44Z
Dec 5, 2022

I use VMware NSX for virtualizing networks for VMware virtual machines.

Santi-Lara Garcia - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2022-11-03T11:17:45Z
Nov 3, 2022

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.

Tarek Nader - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2022-10-04T21:23:34Z
Oct 4, 2022

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.

Ravishankar KumarPatel - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
2022-10-03T10:26:51Z
Oct 3, 2022

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.

Claudio Sousa - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5
2022-09-28T12:18:45Z
Sep 28, 2022

We use VMware NSX for box integration. If box integration is still a code, we use this technology to understand it.

Preshit Lanjekar - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5
2022-08-15T13:07:50Z
Aug 15, 2022

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.

MM
Real User
Top 20
2022-07-29T14:27:52Z
Jul 29, 2022

The solution is mainly used for rolling virtual environments and private clouds. I use the product for my company and for other customers.

MadhuV - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2022-07-03T14:39:00Z
Jul 3, 2022

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.

Ramesh Boopathi - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2022-06-02T08:01:55Z
Jun 2, 2022

We use VMware NSX for micro-segmentation.

Shubham Chandra - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
2022-02-14T15:40:06Z
Feb 14, 2022

VMware NSX can be used for micro-segmentation in the network space.

BW
Real User
2022-01-25T07:54:46Z
Jan 25, 2022

VMware NSX is used as a software-defined network. We used the solution in a data center.

Ali Gursoy - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 20
2022-01-12T16:05:05Z
Jan 12, 2022

We use NSX as a security solution. The solution is deployed on-premise. We are using version 6.4 of NSX.

LC
Real User
2021-12-27T19:52:54Z
Dec 27, 2021

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.

SA
Real User
2021-11-23T16:31:07Z
Nov 23, 2021

We are using VMware NSX for all our network needs.

PM
Real User
2021-11-13T07:56:31Z
Nov 13, 2021

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.

KO
Reseller
2021-10-17T22:46:59Z
Oct 17, 2021

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.

Ali Yazıcı - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2021-07-15T18:17:14Z
Jul 15, 2021

We are using VMware NSX for network security.

MS
Real User
2021-05-21T17:51:38Z
May 21, 2021

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.

Grazvydas Govaras - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 20
2021-03-29T09:21:19Z
Mar 29, 2021

We primarily use the solution in order to build a private cloud.

WJ
Reseller
2021-02-08T10:06:39Z
Feb 8, 2021

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.

VM
MSP
2021-01-27T12:05:45Z
Jan 27, 2021

We use this product for software-defined networking. We are a solution provider and we build a platform for our clients that includes it.

JT
MSP
2021-01-22T18:58:23Z
Jan 22, 2021

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.

ST
Real User
Top 10
2021-01-14T17:10:41Z
Jan 14, 2021

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.

RN
Real User
2020-11-14T15:17:00Z
Nov 14, 2020

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.

AL
Real User
Top 10
2020-08-19T07:57:00Z
Aug 19, 2020

We use this product for micro-segmentation and network function virtualization.

IS
Real User
2020-07-02T10:05:57Z
Jul 2, 2020

We use this solution to build our VMware platform.

AS
Real User
2020-06-28T08:51:00Z
Jun 28, 2020

We are a professional services company and we have been evaluating VMware NSX for our clients.

RL
Real User
2020-01-02T15:21:00Z
Jan 2, 2020

Our primary use case is moving from physical to VM infrastructure.

it_user1013148 - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
2019-02-14T21:52:00Z
Feb 14, 2019

* Deployment * Planning and designing * Troubleshooting sustain.

SR
Real User
2018-11-27T17:17:00Z
Nov 27, 2018

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.

MW
Real User
2018-11-21T08:01:00Z
Nov 21, 2018

We support clients who use on-premise VMware NSX. We provide daily maintenance and support for this solution.

AH
Real User
2018-11-21T08:01:00Z
Nov 21, 2018

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.

AM
Real User
2018-11-21T08:01:00Z
Nov 21, 2018

We use this solution for extended on-premise capabilities. We've been using it for five years.

AC
Consultant
2018-11-18T09:40:00Z
Nov 18, 2018

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.

CK
Real User
2018-11-18T09:40:00Z
Nov 18, 2018

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.

TS
Real User
2018-11-18T09:40:00Z
Nov 18, 2018

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.

AL
Real User
2018-11-18T09:40:00Z
Nov 18, 2018

The primary use case is the microsegmentation of all our infrastructure, which is a huge bonus. It's performed well.

SA
Real User
2018-11-18T09:40:00Z
Nov 18, 2018

We use it for microsegmentation, and it has performed well.

MU
Real User
2018-11-18T09:40:00Z
Nov 18, 2018

Our primary use case is to change from Cisco.

SL
Real User
2018-11-18T09:40:00Z
Nov 18, 2018

Our primary use cases of this solution are hybrid, cloud, private cloud, and automation.

ES
Real User
2018-11-18T09:40:00Z
Nov 18, 2018

Our customers need load balance and firewalls with advanced NSX. They are really happy to use NSX.

FG
Real User
2018-11-18T09:40:00Z
Nov 18, 2018

We use it as a distributed firewall and for security purposes.

PD
Real User
2018-11-18T09:40:00Z
Nov 18, 2018

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.

PW
Real User
2018-11-18T09:40:00Z
Nov 18, 2018

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.

MR
Real User
2018-11-18T09:40:00Z
Nov 18, 2018

My company's primary use case for this solution is the microsegmentation. It's futuristic.

ML
Real User
2018-06-29T06:40:00Z
Jun 29, 2018

I was an intern at a relatively large company here in Morocco, and NSX is a great solution.

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