VMware NSX Reviews

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. 

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.

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. 

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

The most valuable features for us at this early stage are the interface and the integration with existing VMware solutions.

The Active Directory network integration and load balancer are good features.

Everybody needs a network to connect to, and VMware doesn't readily provide one. It is reliant on an existing network to connect to, which means that for me, it requires two different teams to manage the SDN.

We have been working with VMware NSX for a couple of months.

It seems like a stable product.

I have not checked on the scalability, although from what I have read, it seems like there might be some concerns. I will know more once I get the opportunity to test it.

At this point, we have a team of just three people who are using it.

We have not had any reason to call technical support at this stage.

Community support seems ok.

We are mainly a Cisco house, but we are trying to use VMware NSX as the next stage of our software-defined networking (SDN) expansion.

I'm not a VMware expert and as a network engineer, I find the setup to be quite complex.

I am currently in the process of comparing this solution to Cisco ACI.

My advice for anybody who is considering this product is to definitely start with a proof of concept. Be sure to understand your business requirements, networking, and security requirements as well.

I am currently evaluating different scenarios on scalability, integration with other products, and the underlay of the solution. While it may be a good product, I think that VMware should buy a network provider that offers the entire end-to-end networking solution.

I would rate this solution a five out of ten.

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.

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

The most valuable feature of VMware NSX is the ability to set up virtual networking environments.

The solution can improve by making it more straightforward, easier to install and maintain in the environment.

I have been using VMware NSX for approximately five years.

VMware NSX is a scalable solution.

My experience with technical support is good. I have not used them very much but what I have contacted the support they have been responsive and helpful.

The implementation of VMware NSX is moderately complex. However, it depends on your data center environment complexity.

VMware has always been geared towards enterprise and their pricing options are a bit high. Their price is higher than other options in the market.

I would advise those wanting to implement this solution to give themselves a fair amount of time and make sure are working with someone who is reasonably well trained and has done it before. 

I rate VMware NSX an eight out of ten.

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.

It gives more security and micro-segmentation. It helps to set network configurations in an easy way.

NSX-T supports more platforms, and VMware NSX only supports some platforms like KVM. I want to see support for Hyper-V and other hypervisors.

Their technical support could be faster as well.

I've been dealing with this solution for around three years.

I think that technical support should be faster.

Sometimes, deployment can take around four weeks. For the design and deployment, it can take eight weeks. We need more days, at times, for migration or for deploying security.

We have one team member per customer for the deployment, and we have 10 customers using this solution.

I would recommend VMware NSX for big projects and would rate it at seven on a scale from one to ten.

I have worked on NSX for the last couple of months and I Liked Distributed Logical Switching, Distributed Logical Router and Distributed Firewall the most.

We have deployed it in a virtual environment and it saved a lot of time and effort for us to configure.

Speed of the NSX Controllers while deploying sometimes gets a bit slower which can be improved, overall its a great product

Last few months.

No issues.

No issues.

No issues.

Satisfied.

Satisfied.

No.

We are a Partner and we have deployed it for our customer.