VMware hikes NSX price, adds cheaper versions VMware has taken the scissors to its NSX product's feature list to offer versions that won't set back customers quite as much as the full product, at the same time hiking the price of the top version of the product. Pitched at companies that want to create software defined data centres, NSX slips networking and security into …
It's almost as though us chavvy customer types have a nasty habit of buying real physical sockets and doing things the old fashioned way in preference to buying snake oil. OK that's not exactly fair but you buy real things first and soft-stuff second.
Who buys NSX anyway? I am genuinely intrigued: what are your workloads/use cases that exceed the capabilities of vDS?
PS I am a VMware apologist in general
"Who buys NSX anyway? I am genuinely intrigued: what are your workloads/use cases that exceed the capabilities of vDS?"
When I was interviewed for a sysadmin job using NSX a few months ago, the only two deployments in the UK were one for the MoD in a classified location, and one for the Christie Cancer Hospital in Manchester.
A lot of the features of NSX are pretty incredible... but yeah, I've yet to encounter a situation where anything it does was actually necessary. Which is probably the justification for breaking out downfeatured versions.
What a load of tosh, there are certainly more than two deployments in the UK. I work for a consultancy firm who are a VMware partner and i've personally deployed NSX for several customers.
As for benefits over a VDS, VDS is still only a switch, you cannot route, you cannot firewall, VPN, DCHP, compliance scan or load balance. NSX can.
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