Cisco VMware Vs. NSX · NSX Cisco ACI cost advantage over VMware NSX* TWO COMPETING SOLUTIONS HAVE...
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Vs. “ When you’re creating an overlay network (NSX, or other), you are buying TWO networks ” - Zeus Kerravala, Principal Analyst, ZK Research Cisco ACI © 2015 ZK Research: A Division of Kerravala Consulting All rights reserved. Reproduction or redistribution in any form without the express prior permission of ZK Research is expressly prohibited. For questions, comments or further information, e-mail [email protected]. VMware NSX Cisco ACI cost advantage over VMware NSX * TWO COMPETING SOLUTIONS HAVE EMERGED, BUT BUYERS NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCES CISCO ACI is an integrated solution that addresses the physical and virtual networks: . Automated Application centric, policy driven framework . Single pane of glass for managing application components with embedded security . Every leaf is a gateway for physical and virtual application, no additional gateways or compute nodes required VMware NSX is a hypervisor overlay-based model: . VMware centric . Only manages overlay. Underlay is managed separately . Requires network gateways to talk to bare-metal applications and other network endpoints *Large organization solution with up to 25,000 virtual machines, based on Arista underlay and permanent licenses for NSX VMware vCloud/ vSphere License Savings 15% Total Cost of Acquisition Savings 47% Total Network Savings 80% Total Compute Savings 17%
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“When you’recreating an
overlay network (NSX, or other), you are buying
TWO networks” - Zeus Kerravala, Principal Analyst,
ZK Research
CiscoACI
© 2015 ZK Research: A Division of Kerravala Consulting All rights reserved. Reproduction or redistribution in any form without the express prior permission of ZK Research is expressly prohibited. For questions, comments or further information, e-mail [email protected].
VMwareNSX
Cisco ACI cost advantageover VMware NSX*
T W O CO M P E T I N G S O LU T I O N S H AV E E M E R G E D,B U T B U Y E R S N E E D TO U N D E R S TA N D T H E D I F F E R E N C E S
CISCO ACI is an integrated solution that addresses the physical and virtual networks: . Automated Application centric, policy driven framework . Single pane of glass for managing application components with embedded security . Every leaf is a gateway for physical and virtual application, no additional gateways or compute nodes required
VMware NSX is a hypervisor overlay-based model: . VMware centric . Only manages overlay. Underlay is managed separately . Requires network gateways to talk to bare-metal applications and other network endpoints
*Large organization solution with up to 25,000 virtual machines, based on Arista underlay and permanent licenses for NSX
VMware vCloud/vSphere LicenseSavings
15%
Total Cost of Acquisition Savings
47%
TotalNetworkSavings
80%
Total Compute Savings
17%
