F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect vs. VMware NSX

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect
Score 7.8 out of 10
N/A
Securely connects distributed apps and services across public cloud, on-premises, and edge environments. Utilizing Infrastructure as Code, App Connect provisions resources and maintain uniform policies across multiple sites.N/A
VMware NSX
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
VMware 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
F5 Distributed Cloud App ConnectVMware NSX
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F5 Distributed Cloud App ConnectVMware 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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Community Pulse
F5 Distributed Cloud App ConnectVMware NSX
Considered Both Products
F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect
Chose F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect
The easy of deploy
Chose F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect
-F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect provides more granular security policies with features like DOS, WAF etc and others lack
-F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect provides high performance global network and other rely on public internet and impact is latency and it gives F5 …
Chose F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect
It's pretty clear that these two are fine within a single ecosystem but fall short when the architecture spans more than one cloud vendor.
VMware NSX
Chose VMware NSX
Nuage Networks Virtualized Services Platform (VSP) and Juniper Contrail Networking
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 …
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 …
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F5 Distributed Cloud App ConnectVMware NSX
Small Businesses
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Score 9.2 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
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Score 9.2 out of 10

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Enterprises
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User Ratings
F5 Distributed Cloud App ConnectVMware NSX
Likelihood to Recommend
7.8
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Performance
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User Testimonials
F5 Distributed Cloud App ConnectVMware NSX
Likelihood to Recommend
I thought F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect worked great to bridge the gap between our gcp environment and on prem. We were lacking in cloud funtionality for native load balancers but XC really connected the dots. We would most likely need a hybrid environment until the irules functionality improves for a few of our apps but most could be migrated over the XC.
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Our high-security environments require end to end encryption, but also tend to have larger budgets. Since beginning utilization of VMware NSX, we've been able to meet the unique requirements for our high-security clients, but it does have a large price tag that goes along with it. This isn't a particularly well-suited solution for environments with tighter budgets, but it definitely provides security where we need it and are willing to pay for this solution
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Pros
  • Ease of use - standing up a new site took very little time, less then an hour.
  • Connecting the dots - the ease at standing up a load balancer and advertising it on CEs was simple and straight forward. Once you get familiar with the field layout it's very comparable to BIG-IP
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  • Broadcast Suppression: By suppressing broadcast traffic, we have been able to deploy a single VDI network in a /18 network space, allowing for rapid growth and proper DHCP lease timing for a VDI instant clone environment.
  • Networking HA: Leveraging internal mechanisms for high availability, it provides disaster resiliency to a virtual networking environment.
  • Cost Savings: All available features of NSX are licensed simultaneously. Load balancers, firewalls, and routers are all licensed as features, not per object, allowing for the deployment of as many of these objects as are needed.
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Cons
  • More of a unified experience as Gartner released their latest sort of sassy trends. A lot of consumers are looking at a more unified experience and that's the sort of compilation of both management and data planes into a single things like single UI, easier management experience for the corporations.
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  • Our biggest challenge is gaining acceptance from network engineers who are used to working with other technologies.
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Likelihood to Renew
At this point it has become too focal to our operations. An entire department could collapse if we dropped it now or in the near future. My experiences as mentioned in the previous questions tell of its gravity
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Performance
From what we have been able to test load/responsiveness is quick and when we've tested out reporting and troubleshooting modules they have pulled the correct information in quick timeframes. We haven't been able to test out any software integration with Splunk of other software on our system since we are still in early POC stages but from what we've been told we should be able to implement that in our environment
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Alternatives Considered
-F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect provides more granular security policies with features like DOS, WAF etc and others lack -F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect provides high performance global network and other rely on public internet and impact is latency and it gives F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect a better user experience
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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 all. It's focus relies on physical networking changes.
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Return on Investment
  • Inconsistent policies and procedures and now its all seem to be sorted and now requires less support
  • Deployment cycle time was reduced and achieves a faster adoption of newly added contents
  • Saved migration cost and more gave durability to the existing setup
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  • Easy to manage networking and security
  • Better visibility into the environments
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