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Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI) vs. VMware NSX

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco ACI

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/ACisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is network virtualization technology.N/A

    VMware NSX

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AVMware NSX is network virtualization technology. VMware NSX is no longer sold as a standalone product and is now available as a part of VMware Cloud Foundation.N/A
    Pricing
    Cisco ACIVMware NSX
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    Cisco ACIVMware NSX
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Cisco ACIVMware NSX
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
    Chose Cisco ACI
    Cisco ACI is more a complementary solution to separate the underlay and overlay network than VMware NSX.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco ACI
    The main reason we decided to go with Cisco ACI over VMware NSX was that with ACI we could still connect physical networks, therefore, utilizing ACI as our complete data center switching platform. NSX was really only a solution for virtualized networks.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco ACI
    An alternative to ACI would be to use VMware NSX-T. The advantage of NSX-T is that the micro-segmentation is implemented with a distributed firewall and not with ACL. The disadvantages are that you would still need an additional pyhsical network as underlay that has to be …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco ACI
    Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure sits well with other stack of Cisco products
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco ACI
    It’s native support to applications through Application centric mode it’s attractive when deploying in a private cloud environment and it’s ease integration to compute/VMM resources allows the deployment procedure to be much efficient. Also Cisco is a lead in the market that …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco ACI
    Line level policy & secured versus software based.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco ACI
    NSX-T and ACI both are definitely awesome products. I tend to use ACI in networks that have more barebone and/or alternative hypervisors. NSX still works best in VMware heavy networks. Another consideration is where the network is managed, by which team. If the network is …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco ACI
    NSX works well as an overlay technology where ACI in combination with secure workload provide a better overall solution
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco ACI
    Compared to NSX, Cisco ACI has a lot to offer out-of-the-box without the need to use extra tools or products that need to be installed.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco ACI
    With Cisco ACI you get a solution with a single vendor, NSX is only software, so the physical layer will always have to be from another vendor.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco ACI
    Enable full automation of physical and virtual network.
    Legacy network devices can be physically connected to the fabric.
    Hardware routing is much more efficient than a software only network.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco ACI
    Cisco ACI is better since it provides more common solutions than vendor specific solutions
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco ACI
    Cisco is Cisco. You have the ecosystem and you have end-to-end technology line-up and the integrations against the rest of the portfolio. No other vender has broad view.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco ACI
    NSX is much easier to use but is expensive and the VMware teams usually do not want to support it.
    Incentivized
    VMware by Broadcom
    Chose VMware NSX
    We use both Cisco ACI and VMware NSX, and while they have different strengths and capabilities, I would recommend VMware NSX, as it can be used in all VMware environments, without costly physical infrastructure changes. Cisco ACI provides some of the same capabilities, but not …
    Incentivized
    Chose VMware NSX
    We use both ACI & NSX. They both provide a programmable network and in future releases of ACI they will allow you to stretch fabrics into the cloud like you can do with NSX. ACI, when compared to NSX, turned out to be significantly cheaper, but it also was lacking certain …
    Incentivized
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Cisco ACIVMware NSX
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (83 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.2
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.1
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.1
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.6
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)