We performed a comparison between Aruba Orchestrator and VMware SD-WAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Aruba Orchestrator has notably reduced enrollment setup times from several hours to within an hour if prepared and planned."
"The most important feature is WAN optimization."
"We had to deal with separate management models for Wi-Fi and switches. With Aruba Orchestrator, it's now a unified solution, making things much easier for us. We log in and manage everything from a single console. It provides complete internal visibility from LAN to Wi-Fi, resulting in higher stability and easier troubleshooting. The management process is much quicker and more streamlined."
"The most valuable feature is optimization."
"The Business Intent Overlay is a great feature."
"The technical support services are excellent."
"The product has reduced OpEx expenditure."
"Initially, we had a scattered environment, but VMware SD-WAN helped us achieve centralization, which was beneficial."
"The most valuable feature of VMware SD-WAN is flexibility. It is more flexible than other vendors."
"The most valuable feature of VMware SD-WAN is the virtualization platform. You can use the software on any hardware. Additionally, the solution is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the dynamic multipath optimization."
"VMware is the only SD-WAN solution that integrates with Azure Virtual WAN."
"Feature-wise, VMware SD-WAN is a really strong cloud web security product."
"There are 400 functionalities of the system."
"The most valuable feature is the Dynamic Multipath Optimization (DMPO), which allows the customer to maintain and monitor their link quality in real-time."
"They could provide essential training to understand the product functionality."
"The initial setup is complex, depending on the overall planning for the entire environment."
"Aruba Orchestrator should implement dynamic certificate changes for security."
"The solution can be improved by lowering the cost and making it more user-friendly for first-time users."
"The management menu should be simplified."
"The solution lacks sufficient security features."
"There are a number of customers we have that require a fully mashed SD-WAN on VeloCloud that is not available currently."
"The only thing that I'm having issues with is on one of the sites, I can't see the location on the map."
"The dashboards could be improved."
"There might be potential enhancements in better integration with other platforms, increased stability, and heightened security."
"Security is a challenge. I would like to see VMware add things like IPS, IDS, and web filtering. These features are the future of security, and most competing firewalls have them."
"In the future, we would like to have more capacity using this solution as there are limitations on the VCE. For example, only 50 tunnels can be supported currently but we would like to have 200 tunnels using the VeloCloud VCE device."
"VeloCloud could improve its integration capabilities with other solutions."
"I would like to improve the tool’s cloud security features. I would like to see high-throughput hardware requests in the product’s next release. The solution should also support multiple gigs which could be around ten."
Aruba Orchestrator is ranked 13th in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 7 reviews while VMware SD-WAN is ranked 4th in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 51 reviews. Aruba Orchestrator is rated 8.6, while VMware SD-WAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Aruba Orchestrator writes "Provides complete internal visibility from LAN to Wi-Fi, resulting in higher stability and easier troubleshooting". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware SD-WAN writes "To fully utilize cloud vendors' hardware networking, Microsoft and VMware support everything". Aruba Orchestrator is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN and Juniper Session Smart Router, whereas VMware SD-WAN is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, Fortinet FortiGate, Meraki SD-WAN, Cato SASE Cloud Platform and Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform. See our Aruba Orchestrator vs. VMware SD-WAN report.
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