We performed a comparison between Cisco DNA Center and VMware NSX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product offers an intuitive and automated way to manage user networks. It gives me an insight into the network health."
"DNA Center is scalable."
"We have many people from the team who manage a lot of devices. By using Cisco DNA Center, it has taken some of that burden away, we are impressed with it. We did the investment in CAPEX, but in the OPEX was very low."
"Cisco DNA Center provides operational support, compliance support, security vulnerability detection, and automatic scheduling."
"It gives us automation capabilities for pushing out the configuration to branch networks. It also provides visibility into the health of user network devices."
"It is a stable solution."
"The solution has the capability to scale."
"I like that we can easily configure any new hardware. It's also easy to deploy and easy to troubleshoot."
"The micro-segmentation and the ability to create policy rules are valuable."
"NSX's stand-out function is the distributed firewall. The firewall system is just top-notch, and I haven't seen another solution like it."
"We secured our organisation with Micro-segmentation."
"It gives more security and micro-segmentation. It helps to set network configurations in an easy way."
"Overall, I would say the solution has been quite stable."
"One of the big improvements between the NSX-V and NSX-T is that in NSX-T you are no longer dependent on V-Center anymore."
"This is the most scalable product of its type."
"I am impressed with the tool's protection."
"In terms of the clustering part, there are some concerns."
"The weaknesses primarily involve pricing and the ongoing need for increased bandwidth and data throughput."
"What I want to see in Cisco DNA Center in the future is more support for other platforms so that you can manage third-party products, such as Fortinet."
"I would like is to have a small information pointer available. It could be a plus feature that I want to implement. When I hover my mouse over the user interface, it should provide a brief explanation. It would be helpful to have it incorporated into the UI."
"As a user, it would be good if I could plug in controllers, suites, and devices from other vendors to Cisco DNA Center."
"Cisco DNA Center was a new technology for us, at the beginning, it was not easy to do, but Cisco did a lot of training with us to a level we could handle everything. The team is managing itself now without the assistance of Cisco."
"The features of Cisco DNA Center and Cisco Prime could have more parity."
"Cisco could improve the security side of their solutions."
"The price is rather high."
"The next release of NSX should try to make Kubernetes and container integration a little easier than it is now. It's quite a complicated process."
"They have some limitations in the firewall features as compared to the on-prem or dedicated hardware appliance. They can add more features, such as IPS and IDS, to the cloud firewall."
"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."
"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."
"The solution is complex but for the key user, it's not really complex. You just need to learn the standards and mechanics for your specific product."
"We would like tenant segmentation available in future releases."
"The solution is only sold as part of a bundle and not as an individual product."
Cisco DNA Center is ranked 1st in Network Automation with 37 reviews while VMware NSX is ranked 4th in Network Automation with 94 reviews. Cisco DNA Center is rated 7.8, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco DNA Center writes "Practical implementation of VXLAN is good and provides centralized control". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional". Cisco DNA Center is most compared with Cisco Prime, Aruba Airwave, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, Juniper Mist Wired Assurance and Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), whereas VMware NSX is most compared with Nutanix Flow Network Security, Illumio, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, Cisco ACI and Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks. See our Cisco DNA Center vs. VMware NSX report.
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