We performed a comparison between Cisco Catalyst Switches and VMware NSX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Ethernet Switches solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The availability of resources for learning about the product and doing evaluation of any issues is excellent."
"The solution is beneficial for interconnecting POE telephones, computers, printers, and buffering networks."
"The most valuable feature is the interface, it's easy to configure. The command line uses a switch that gives us security."
"When it comes to Cisco Catalyst Switches, one can say that the legacy switches are stable."
"The pricing is quite good."
"Catalyst switches are highly stable and easy to use. It's a technology well known by most engineers."
"The configuration is easy."
"The most valuable features are the Stacking and the capacity of the switches because they have more throughput. Layer 2 is also part of its rich feature set."
"This solution comes with an API that can easily integrate with other solutions."
"Provides flexibility to deploy and have network virtualization on different types of firewalls."
"The best part is the blueprint creation where I can create their things and then move on to the target environment."
"Provides protection for virtual machines."
"Has a great firewall."
"It does have capabilities of micro-segmenting a network, being able to create smaller segments of various types of applications separated by various tiers."
"I have found VMware NSX to be easy to use."
"It provides a single pane of glass. You can do the switching, routing, load balancing, IPS, IDS, etc. Everything is under one umbrella. So, there is no vendor dependency over there."
"I think that the price should be cheaper and they should include at least one year of basic service for technical support for each product, and not just the 90 days from the time of purchase."
"The price could be better. For Cisco, there is no need for improvement except for the price. It's expensive."
"The product could always be more secure."
"I would like to see support for one-touch provisioning."
"The licensing process should be back to how it was before. Now, you have to register online, and it makes staging a bit trickier."
"Personal automatization is a feature that should be addressed."
"The delivery of the product lead time should be improved."
"Catalyst Switches could be more secure."
"The solution could benefit from improvements in its pricing and scalability."
"The feature it can improve is essentially application-based load balancing with intelligent load distribution for applications that require redundancy and high availability."
"If there are other solutions already in place, it can be difficult to implement."
"It might be nice to have more AI in the future."
"It needs to be cheaper."
"They need to enhance their technical support."
"The scalability is not perfect."
"There is room for improvement in VMware NSX's workload management, particularly in the orchestration layer and in managing workloads across multiple clouds."
Cisco Catalyst Switches doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Ethernet Switches with 171 reviews while VMware NSX is ranked 2nd in Network Virtualization with 94 reviews. Cisco Catalyst Switches is rated 8.6, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco Catalyst Switches writes "Reliable and stable catalyst switch; can be easily installed". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional". Cisco Catalyst Switches is most compared with Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches, Cisco Nexus, HPE ProCurve and Dell PowerSwitch N-Series, whereas VMware NSX is most compared with Nutanix Flow Network Security, Illumio, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, Cisco ACI and Cisco Secure Workload. See our Cisco Catalyst Switches vs. VMware NSX report.
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