VMware NSX Reviews

We can deliver the network that customers need quickly and safely. That is most important.

There is one feature I'm finding with VMware which is special for us from IBM with JIRA routing protocols. This is in the future that they are planning, especially right now with our compatible AWS. AWS is good, understood, except for the software to improve, probably with Amazon right now doing this partnership. VMware and access are going to be improved for that.

It's totally stable, because right now it's running version 6.3. It's very mature. Even the versions with VMware 5.5, 6, and 6.5 are very stable right now. It's becoming more open to other environments, too. It's not only working with VMware, but also with Red Hat and Ubuntu. It's an amazing product.

Totally scalable. I almost can tell this is the first real multi-tenant product from VMware that will scale out and do real multitenancy.

Tech support is nice. It could be a little bit better. Simple, since this is a new product, you don't have too much specialists over the world. Because it is a mix between the virtual world with VMs, and now networks, it's networking virtualization. So, VMware with NSX is being a pioneer. They are improving their support every day.

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

We use this in combination with VMware Horizon View. With Horizon, we have an isolated environment.

The most valuable feature is to control application behavior.

It provides us with features that other products have not.

If you start with a new or greenfield environment, it is okay to implement. However, if there are other solutions already in place, it can be difficult to implement.

The stability is very good.

Because it is in the VMkernel, it is robust.

I have no contact at the moment with VMware support about NSX.

It is easy to implement it.

I am the partner. I work with the customer to do the deployment.

I would recommend it to another person.

We do not integrate it with vCloud Director.

I don't use load balancer at the moment.

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

VMware NSX has improved our organization in the way that we can now deploy many VMs faster than before and so we are scaling up much faster.

We like that NSX is faster. My colleagues manage their own firewalls so they can freely deploy their VMs. The ability to freely deploy is one of the most valuable features. 

This solution is robust and agile. It was stable for one year, there was no impact. In the last two months, we had two big incidents.

We are happy with the scalability.

We have needed to use their technical support. We've have had good and bad experiences with them. We don't always find them to be so impactful. Sometimes the support guy isn't so on top of resolving the issue and it can take a while to sort out. 

It was deployed by a VMware consultant. 

I would tell people who say that NSX is complex that it's not as complex as they think and they should definitely consider this solution.

I would have rated this solution a nine, but in the last two months, we have had two incidents with them. 

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.

VMware NSX is a very good product.

It's a beneficial tool.

VMware NSX needs improvement.

We have been using VMware NSX for a couple of years.

We are using the most recent version.

I have no issues with the stability of  VMware NSX.

VMware NSX is a scalable solution.

NSX is not a user, product. NSX is for securing your virtualization platform.

The support needs improvement.

The initial setup is straightforward.

I have not yet fully explored all that this solution provides. I am still analyzing it. From the knowledge and experience that I have today, I would recommend this solution.

I would rate VMware NSX a five out of ten.

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.

The solution is valuable in that it makes it very easy to protect virtual machines

The product is quite complex and that could be an area where improvements could be made. 

I've been using this solution for over a year. 

This solution is stable. 

The solution is scalable. I've implemented it in an organization with 2.000 servers and it's fine. That is my experience. I don't have experience with larger environments. 

We are directly linked to VMware so we haven't needed to contact the technical support. 

We did face some challenges with the initial setup. 

The cost of the solution is a little high, particularly given that most people will not use all the features of the product. If a customer does use all the options, it is a very cheap solution but that is unlikely. For a regular user looking for normal switching, the price feels high. If it's implemented properly you can reduce the cost.

This is a good product and I highly recommend it. 

I would rate this solution an eight out of 10. 

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

NSX has improved our organisation in many ways, by securing it with micro-segmentation, and by allowing us to implement logical equipment in a matter of seconds instead of waiting for the physical material to implement and configure.

The Distributed Firewall is simple to add to the network and rules are easy to implement on it.

It should be more adapted to the physical side of network topology in order to prevent unavailability.

The ability to scale from different clouds. At the moment, the scalability of the product is the number one thing that I saw.

Right now, we're doing a private cloud, since we're government. In the future, we may want to look at public, but probably not. 

It has the potential to improve the way we function by having our different clouds be able to easily communicate back and forth. Right now, it takes a lot of work to do collaboration from our test lab, to our production, and to do anything in-between. It has the potential of giving us streamline migrations from the test lab to production.  

Pricing and licensing could be improved as we are a government entity. Lower pricing could always help.

We just got it.

About five to 10 people set new products up and we kick them down the road all the time. As soon as we see something real good we call in some users and it gets big. They call their managers and it grows; it's like a wildfire.

But it will start off as a spark, and I'm the spark.

It is pretty good. It cuts down on duplication. Right now, I have tools in the lab, have tools in pre-prod, and have tools in production. 

Right now and well in the future, if we implement it, we'll be able to have the same tool set be applied through all regions and transfer and not have duplication. It will outline and teach our users how to operate them. Therefore, we will have one set of tools, one set of instructions, and they can operate in all three environments. 

Scalability definitely looks awesome. Again the three environments we'll be able to use one set of tools. Everybody would be familiar with it. It won't operate this region and a different way in another region because it's from another vendor, where one set of tools would be able to pass throughout all of our regions. 

Our scale right now is about 60 users (the production and the customer).

We had multiple solutions.

We were making do with what we had, but again, going to different conferences and seeing what other people were using. We got curious and our vendor said, let's demo it. So, we made time for it, and after we made time for the demo, we realized we should have been doing this two years ago.

I was involved in the initial setup. It was straightforward. We did it with our government PFE.

We do have partners, who are knowledgeable, did offer to come in and set it up for us. We had access to our online lab from our vendor, so they had to set it up, connect it, demo it, and see how it runs. Though, we set ours up. 

Dell EMC and Symantec.

It's a solid product. Very easy to use out-of-the-box. It didn't have a steep learning curve, and we're still finding things that we can add-on. 

I would encourage anyone looking to buy the solution to demo it in a lab, or come to a conference and see it. They should see how it would fit in their environment, and don't be overwhelmed or overworked by adding another solution because the results pays off.

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor:

• Price
• Security
• Meeting the application requirements.
• Technical support.