--- title: VMware NSX Reviews meta\_title: 'VMware NSX Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 83 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how VMware NSX works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.4 review\_count: 83 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-11' parent\_category: name: IT Infrastructure url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-infrastructure --- # VMware NSX Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by VMware NSX but has limited features. Are you part of the VMware NSX team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! VMware NSX® is a powerful network virtualization solution for VMware Cloud Foundation™ (VCF) that enables network connectivity, operations, and scale. NSX Network Virtualization brings the simplicity of the cloud operating model to networking, allowing you to streamline, accelerate, and scale both traditional and modern applications in private/hybrid clouds. * * * Seller [Broadcom](https://www.g2.com/sellers/broadcom-ab3091cd-4724-46a8-ac89-219d6bc8e166) Discussions [VMware NSX Community](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-nsx/discuss) Languages Supported German, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional) Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Sue Ulintz Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 4 months ### Return on Investment 16 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-nsx/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![HAProxy](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "HAProxy") HAProxy 4.7/5(912) ](https://www.g2.com/products/haproxy/reviews) [ ![Check Point Next Generation Firewalls (NGFWs)](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Check Point Next Generation Firewalls (NGFWs)") Check Point Next Generation Firewalls (NGFWs) 4.5/5(595) ](https://www.g2.com/products/check-point-next-generation-firewalls-ngfws/reviews) [ ![Amazon EC2](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Amazon EC2") Amazon EC2 4.6/5(1,200) ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-ec2/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-nsx/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 83 real user reviews. Implementation Time 4 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ## VMware NSX Integrations (3) What do users say about integrations? Integration information sourced from real user reviews. [ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Cloud Automation Framework ](https://www.g2.com/products/cloud-automation-framework/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") VMware vSAN ](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-vsan/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") VMware vSphere ](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-vsphere/reviews) Show More ![Joni L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Joni L.") JL Joni L. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/9/2026 "Robust Network Virtualization with Cost Considerations" 3.5/5 What do you like best about VMware NSX? I find VMware NSX fairly rapid and easy to deploy once you have an understanding of the VMware infrastructure. It allows me to tightly implement network security using the zero-trust model. It also supports infrastructure-as-code (IaC), which is really beneficial for us. Perhaps the greatest strength is being able to move virtual machines running on VMware without having to readdress IPs if they're in different subnets and data centers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about VMware NSX? I find the high licensing cost of VMware NSX prohibitive, especially for new small or medium business customers. I also find troubleshooting challenging when issues arise with NSX. It comes with its own complexity and quirks at first, so it's not the easiest to get up and running smoothly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is VMware NSX solving and how is that benefiting you? VMware NSX lets me configure and manage networks on a software level, making management unified and hardware-independent. It's quick to deploy, strengthens security with zero-trust, supports IaC, and allows moving VMs without readdressing IPs across subnets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Ratna P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ratna P.") RP Ratna P. Network Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 4/9/2026 "Powerful Micro-Segmentation" 4/5 What do you like best about VMware NSX? I like the micro-segmentation feature in VMware NSX the most. It helps me secure my network to the VM NIC level, allowing me to specify that even VMs in the same segment cannot communicate with each other, which is really helpful. Additionally, its integration capabilities with almost all public clouds, including AWS and AVS, stand out for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about VMware NSX? Most of the time, there are some bugs in the feature. There are some cosmetic errors which may be improved. We often get alerts which are cosmetic errors, and we can't really do anything about them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is VMware NSX solving and how is that benefiting you? I use VMware NSX for network virtualization and securing my network with micro-segmentation, which offers what traditional firewalls can't by segmenting data up to the VM NIC level. It's integrated with public clouds, enhancing its usability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite TW Tony W. Principal Cloud Solutions Architect Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/30/2024 "Cloud Service Provider NSX Integration" 4/5 What do you like best about VMware NSX? NSX allows for seamless integration of L2, L3 and dynamic routing into Cloud Director allowing a for a compelling platfrom for Cloud Services for traditional VM workloads all the way through to container based applications. It allows the deprecation of traditional VLAN network and allows for high availability of cross availability zone networking allowing business to have buisness continuity. The ability to be able to leverage north south firewall and also distributed firewalling improves the security of cloud services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about VMware NSX? Unfortunately the new VMware by Broadcom billing models makes NSX no financially viable in the market compared to traditional virtual firewall products such as Fortigate and Palo Alto due to the licensing requirements for DFW, North South Firewall and Load balancing of NSX ALB Service Engines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is VMware NSX solving and how is that benefiting you? High availabillity of cross availability zone networking with active / active workloads for VM and container workloads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") AI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 6/14/2024 "NSX a must for Cloud Providers!" 4/5 What do you like best about VMware NSX? Upsides: The main reason we use the NSX product on our environments is to make life easier with virtual networking in a SDDC. The ease of use helps our thousands of customers to create their own SDDC with all of their enterprise applications. Virtual networking creates an unprecedented number of use-cases that can be used. Firewalling, VPN's, micro-segmentation, NIC-firewalling, gateway firewalling, BGP and lots more. There is a rich third party integration possibility within the NSX product like Fortigate-VM! Last but not least, the implementation for NSX is relatively easy. You only need to install 3 appliances and you are good to go. This is the reason it is used all the time in all our production environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about VMware NSX? Downsides: How easily NSX provides functionality to end-customers and/or cloud providers is something different from the configuration that needs to be done to use the product after installation. Next to this, I think the legion of different products such as AVI loadbalancing, IDS/IPS etc. could have a better integration into the main product. Most of these require additional appliances and or software to be used. Furthermore, the API is vast and complete. However, the GUI seems to be behind in that part since not all API equivalent calls can be done with the GUI, which means that users that do not fully understand API calls the learning curve might be a bit harder in comparison with others that do understand these. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is VMware NSX solving and how is that benefiting you? NSX is a must use product for us. We need to use it in our environment in conjunction with VMware Cloud Director (VCD). However, the product also solves a lot of our needs that our customers have to build an maintain their own SDDC environment. Because NSX is a high-performing, high-scaling solution it integrates very well with the underlying hypervisor (ESXi) platform. Each hypervisor host is a node in the fabric, traffic passes efficiently through these nodes to create a high performing scalable fabric like no others we have. We, and in return our customers, can now use micro-segmentation (firewalling on a per-NIC basis), VPN's, (Gateway) Firewalling , BGP and since lately even DPU based acceleration and much more all from within one single interface. Our customers enjoy the operational efficiency that the product gives them. Instead of waiting for weeks for a network department to create VLAN's, they can just do it themselfes within seconds! This is all coming from the same interface that is used by thousands of VMware Cloud Providers around the globe. This is something so significant, we would not have been at the point we are now without the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 6/17/2024 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite RV robin v. Consultant Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 6/10/2024 "Using NSX for micro segmentation and Network automation" 4/5 What do you like best about VMware NSX? NSX is very powerfull in microsegmentation or firewalling between VMs. There is no other product available that is able to perform the same level of firewalling within the vSphere environment or SDDC. Once setup the NSX network virtualization alows easy, fully automated deployment of new virtual networks within the environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about VMware NSX? NSX lacks internal monitoring tooling in comparison to a classical firewall. NSX relies on external tooling for this. Currently it is not possible to purchase the NSX firewall (vDefend) as an option to VMware Foundation, it's only available as option to VCF Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is VMware NSX solving and how is that benefiting you? NSX is mostly used for the Distributed firewall (vDefend). It allows for segementing virtual machines. Without completly changing the network or the need to re-ip all virtual machines, NSX is able the segment within or across the network segments. For developers the network virtualization function provides an automated way to deploy new network segments in the SDDC. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite VI Vasudevan I. Systems and Network Admin Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/20/2024 "Overall a good product" 3.5/5 What do you like best about VMware NSX? VMware NSX supports automated network provisioning and management, which can significantly reduce the time and effort required to manage network resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about VMware NSX? I have noted that while NSX offers advanced networking features, options like packet acceleration could be improved. This suggests that while NSX is feature-rich, certain advanced capabilities may not be as robust as I expect Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is VMware NSX solving and how is that benefiting you? In my previous role by automating many of our network and security operations, NSX reduced the need for manual intervention, which lowered our operational costs and improve efficiency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite TK Turker K. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/4/2024 "My NSX Experiences" 4/5 What do you like best about VMware NSX? Install it and forget about it until the next update. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about VMware NSX? Incidents and system failers mostly take times to fix. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is VMware NSX solving and how is that benefiting you? Installation is complex and need time but after that whole data center network management is easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![SUKHSEHAJ PREET S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "SUKHSEHAJ PREET S.") SS SUKHSEHAJ PREET S. Cloud Engineer II Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/22/2024 "My honest review" 4/5 What do you like best about VMware NSX? granular network segmentation down to the individual workload level. This enhances security by providing isolation and control within the data center Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about VMware NSX? NSX can be quite expensive, especially for smaller organizations. The licensing and operational costs might be a barrier, particularly if you're just starting with network virtualization or have a tight budget. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is VMware NSX solving and how is that benefiting you? Scaling traditional networks often requires significant hardware changes and manual reconfiguration, which can be slow and disruptive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite LL lorenzo l. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/4/2024 "system engineer" 4/5 What do you like best about VMware NSX? Dynamic environment and flexibility. ease of use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about VMware NSX? Security breach and need of upgrading ofren Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is VMware NSX solving and how is that benefiting you? network segmentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Computer & Network Security](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer & Network Security") AC Verified User in Computer & Network Security Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/8/2024 "SDN with great integration with other VMware products" 4/5 What do you like best about VMware NSX? Great integration with other VMware services, mostly vSphere. Administration has simmilar logic as other products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about VMware NSX? Policy and manager modes can be confusing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is VMware NSX solving and how is that benefiting you? Easy of multitenancy management, firewalling and segmentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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