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."With Cisco Catalyst Switches, everything is working perfectly. We have not had issues with this solution."
"The solution is extremely flexible."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The solution is good for computation and backup."
"The installation process is very straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is communication."
"The most valuable features of the solution are BGP, VPN, and spine-leaf architecture."
"The solution is reliable."
"It is a stable solution...The solution's initial setup process was easy."
"The ability to scale from different clouds. At the moment, the scalability of the product is the number one thing that I saw."
"The most valuable feature of VMware NSX is the high bandwidth."
"It has reduced the number of people on the network team along with the system engineer involved in the security process. So, it is valuable."
"It's a beneficial tool."
"The organization of it is logical, useful, and intuitive."
"The initial setup is easy and takes between one and five days."
"During our experience, the solution has been stable."
"The customer service and support need a bit more improvement and a faster response. So, there is an area of improvement."
"The price could be improved."
"Facilitating and adapting the security updates would be a good improvement, because usually it requires to reboot the router to get them"
"One feature that I would like to add is for the following: At times, when I add an access-list for a hostname, it doesn't actually add the hostname, it adds the IP address. So in the back-end, if my server changes the IP address I have to go in manually and change the IP address. If the capability was there in Cisco to add a hostname instead of the IP address that would be really good."
"First of all, there are some features that take a long time to get implemented, and other vendors have them for a long time before them. For example, it took a long time to have a way to commit change with the timer, so it gets undone if the user doesn't accept the change after it's done. Like, having to say the changes be done, and everything works fine. In the end, everything works fine, but it didn't exist. That's just an example of stuff that came late to Catalyst."
"These switches should have better compatibility with software-defined technology."
"Cisco switches are expensive."
"Cisco Catalyst Switches' pricing can be cheaper."
"Traffic flow introspection topology visibility is definitely needed because at the moment, NSX-T lacks in this area."
"It takes time to do the initial setup. It is a bit slow, which is surprising."
"It lacks full knowledge of physical side of the network topology."
"The vendor should integrate a basic load balancer in future versions"
"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."
"The setup is complex and should be made easier."
"Its licensing model could be VM based."
"If there are other solutions already in place, it can be difficult to implement."
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, Cisco ACI, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Cisco Secure Workload. See our Cisco Catalyst Switches vs. VMware NSX report.
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