VMware NSX Reviews

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.

The full integration has been great. Its infrastructure and its ability to be part of the whole application are very useful for organizations. 

The solution is great for controlling virtual switches and it is easy to establish VLANs and micro-segmentations. All those things are very useful.

The stability is pretty good. 

Overall, for me, it's a good solution and has been working well. 

I cannot recall coming across any missing features. At this time, there is nothing I would need in a future release. 

Occasionally the licensing is not very clear. They should make it easier to understand. 

I have experience using the solution for around 25 years, on IT, however, for the last 10 years I've been working deeply on this and over the decade I have been more focused on software. In the last 4 or 5 years, I have had more and more focus. 

The stability is good. Our customers don't seem to have any issues with bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze.

I haven't really dealt with scaling the solution. I can't speak to how it is. 

I've never been in contact with technical support in the past. I can't speak to how helpful or responsive they are. 

I also have experience using Red Hat. However, sometimes I have had some problems with it. It can be a bit more difficult in terms of integration with other vendors. 

I didn't actually handle the implementation. I'm working more on the design side, not on setup or configuration. Therefore, I can't speak to how easy or difficult the implementation process is for users. 

The licensing is complex. Sometimes I have trouble understanding it.

We are VMware integrators and partners. 

I'd advise new or potential users to be aware that you will have to integrate it with other solutions. You'll need to look at how it fits in with all of your infrastructure, including IT infrastructure, for example. 

I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten. It's been very good overall. 

Some of the key features I find most valuable are the highly graphical user interface, virtualization of networks, and Microsoft application compatibility. It has all the functionality that we require.

One drawback is this solution requires a lot of other products in the VMware ecosystem to have a full end-to-end operation orchestration monitoring. You have to buy a lot of add-ons to fully utilize the functionality.

Some additional features in the next release could be for the solution to be more directed toward the end-to-end functions, from physical to virtual monitoring. It should also include streamlined troubleshooting of our operation. 

I have used the solution for approximately two years.

The solution has been stable.

I have found the solution to be highly scalable.

The experience we have had with the solutions technical support has been wonderful.

The setup was straightforward and it took a few weeks.

I would recommend the solution. I would like to point out this is a vendor-lock-in solution, where the user might be confined to a certain vendor for some time before they can move on adopting other vendors. 

I rate VMware NSX an eight out of ten. 

Open APIs allow seamless integration with other products. Eventhough Lastline does not provide an end-to-end solution like their rivals, namely McAfee, TrendMicro and Symantec, Lastline excels by providing their APIs so that they could be integrated with other security products.

With Lastline, the effort to put in into the protecting the users against zero-day threats and malware can be subsequently reduced. It's accuracy and analysis reports on the objects are what all the other vendors should make an example of.

Lastline's reports can sometimes be very complicated and somehow leaves users with lots of technical information that cannot be easily digested. A more presentable reporting should be provided. However, this is not a weakness and their reporting is only suitable for people with certain technical knowledge.

Lastline itself is a complicated product to navigate through, although it provides a lot of details to the users. This was a feedback from one of our customer here during the POC stage. Users may be required to be technically sound to understand what Lastline has provided to them. What I mean by "a more presentable reporting" is that Lastline should provide a more user readable format of the report; perhaps more visual storyline of their process?

I have been using and performing POC on Lastline for my customers for around 1 year.

No issues.

No stability issues.

Lastline has no issue with scalability as it is by far the more scalable amongst APT solutions.

Lastline support has yet to fully penetrate into the SEA market. Their responses may come from their Sales and System engineers instead of their support team.

As mentioned, their system engineers are very well trained and experience enough to answer most of the technical and product inquiries thrown at them.

No.

Initial setup is very straightforward for cloud-based deployment. For on-premise deployment, it will require some UNIX-based commands knowledge.

Lastline is not a cheap product if compared with their competitors. I wish they could do something about the pricing as it is very hard to convince the customers on such a model.

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.

We are using VMware NSX for all our network needs.

I have found VMware NSX to be easy to use.

VMware NSX could improve by having more compatibility with other none Window-based operating systems.

I have been using VMware NSX for approximately six years.

VMware NSX is stable.

The solution is scalable.

We have approximately 200 employees using the solution.

We rarely face issues and we are quite knowledgeable about the solution. 

We have two engineers for the support of the solution.

We are using a perpetual license to use the solution and we have support.

I would recommend this solution but it depends on the nature of the business and how much variety of applications it is using. If you are using one, or two applications then you don't need to use virtualization at all.

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.

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.