We performed a comparison between Cisco SD-WAN and VMware NSX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Fortinet, Check Point Software Technologies and others in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions."Cisco SD-WAN has separate OMP routing."
"The solution can scale. We haven't had any issues doing so."
"It's a complete solution with many security features."
"Using SD-WAN to combine services can result in better up time, higher speeds, and much lower costs."
"It is very stable with very good firmware."
"Encryption, which is native to the solution, is a valuable feature. Also, central management, onboarding of devices, QS, and routing applications are all okay."
"The product helps to aggregate network links. The tool increases security and makes it possible for you to have remote workers."
"The solution's application control and application traffic steering tool are its most valuable aspects in terms of how we utilize the product."
"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 operates on a logical level, providing a comprehensive and centralized way to manage your network resources."
"The solution is very stable and reliable."
"The ability to scale from different clouds. At the moment, the scalability of the product is the number one thing that I saw."
"Provides flexibility to deploy and have network virtualization on different types of firewalls."
"The microsegmentation is great, and the security team thinks it is great."
"The stability is great. That's one of the things that we can quantify and leverage through NSX, because it's less complex. We have the availability to manage multiple things at the same time. You can identify problems before they manifest."
"From a security standpoint, the customer was able to better secure critical workloads while routing L2/L3 worked normally, giving them more confidence that they would be ready for any potential security incident mitigation or outage (DR)."
"Cisco SD-WAN could improve on the ease of integration, the configuration should be easier. At the moment the process is more command line based and it would be better if it was able to be done through an interface."
"Cisco needs to improve the technical support for this solution."
"I would like to see a better, web-based interface to make changes to the configuration or to view statistics."
"The inexpensive Viptela hardware may be replaced with overpriced Cisco routers. This would be a tragic mistake for Cisco as the lightweight commodity platform built by Viptela is the reason to own this solution."
"The deployment is complex."
"The client portal needs to be improved in order to make the solution much better."
"It should also be much more affordable for a larger number of customers."
"Cisco products are a little bit complicated, so making them a little bit easier would be an improvement."
"The first time setting it up was difficult."
"The setup is complex and should be made easier."
"There are always issues integrating with Cisco."
"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."
"We had some complexities implementing into the other parts of a network."
"NSX could better integrate with open-source products. Of course, it integrates with some, but I know many people are uncomfortable deploying NSX with certain open-source solutions, such as Radar."
"The vendor should integrate a basic load balancer in future versions"
"VMware NSX could improve by having more compatibility with other none Window-based operating systems."
Cisco SD-WAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 86 reviews while VMware NSX is ranked 2nd in Network Virtualization with 94 reviews. Cisco SD-WAN is rated 8.0, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco SD-WAN writes "A solution for integrating services to enhance up-time, performance and lower costs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional". Cisco SD-WAN is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Meraki SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN, Juniper Session Smart Router and Aruba Orchestrator, whereas VMware NSX is most compared with Nutanix Flow Network Security, Illumio, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, Cisco ACI and Cisco Nexus.
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