NSX

What do you like best?

The most valuable benefit it's brought to the organization is the ability to monitor all the networking devices from a single panel. NSX really simplifies management and makes configurations at scale a breeze.

What do you dislike?

A high level of expertise is needed for NSX to be designed properly so that it doesn't bring down the whole system when a single component fails.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

NSX is a great product once it's fully set up and you get used to it. It does help to reduce both CapEx and OpEx in the long term but the switch to NSX and adaptation are not very seamless and it might take quite some time. For all the people considering NSX, I recommend hopping on the bandwagon as long as you have business needs that you think NSX might meet. The product is still new and needs to evolve. That will happen much easier if more people embrace new technologies despite the learning curve that usually comes with adopting them.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

We mainly use NSX for high-level orchestration and load balancing. The system provides very good features for redundancy and enables us to have a solid infrastructure that will make the business continuity plan to get in fifth gear very quickly if need be.