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Cisco Meraki vMX Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 8.7 out of 10
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Pros

Ease of Deployment: Users have consistently praised the straightforward deployment process of Cisco Meraki vMX, remarking on its user-friendly setup that simplifies integration into their existing environment. They appreciate how this ease of deployment saves time and resources during initial implementation and ongoing management tasks.

Effective Alerting System: Reviewers have repeatedly commended the alerting feature of Cisco Meraki vMX for its ability to provide timely notifications and detailed insights into network events and issues, enhancing overall visibility and monitoring capabilities. This proactive alerting system enables users to promptly address any potential issues before they escalate, ensuring smooth network operations.

Seamless Integration with Physical Devices: Multiple users have expressed satisfaction with how Cisco Meraki vMX seamlessly integrates with physical Meraki MX devices, creating a cohesive networking infrastructure that operates smoothly. The seamless integration enhances operational efficiency by allowing different components to work together seamlessly without compatibility challenges or disruptions.

Reviews

10 Reviews

Cisco Meraki vMX

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have almost 700 locations across Australia, so for us being able to put in place an SD-WAN solution that has really solid hub appliances is crucial by having the VMX appliances in our Azure ancy allows us to get TC four NBN grade services to all our centers, provide that connectivity into our data center.

Pros

  • It handles load really well.
  • It brings simplification to the whole piece of networking network, so it makes it simple for us to diagnose and troubleshoot issues put in place as changes.
  • It has pretty good site to site firewall control.
  • It works well in Azure, so it ticks all our boxes.

Cons

  • That's a good question. In terms of seeing things stand differently for VMX appliances, it's great to see that over the last month or two. We have now the VMX large appliances available in this U. It would've been great to see that expedited a lot quicker. We've patiently been waiting for that.
  • Probably a bit more granular control in terms of seeing the endpoint from the spoke site at the hub would probably be great, but we're exploring ThousandEyes to help us a bit what we've monitored as well.

Likelihood to Recommend

I think for us in our deployment model where it spoke to the hub, it certainly makes ideal sense. I would probably say with anyone that's signed in Azure or a cloud platform, obviously VMX appliance may not be suited. Anyone on Old Legacy MPLS may struggle to see a purpose for SD-WAN overlay of the top. But I think if you really want to introduce network communications that are low cost effective, solid in terms of availability and performance, a Meraki sdwan solution with the VMX appliance in the cloud is ideal.

DF
David Fenech
ICT Manager for infrastructure and Service Delivery in Information Technology at Goodstart Early Learning (10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Cisco Meraki vMX
6 years of experience

Hub for our branches

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Cisco Meraki vMX as VPN concetrator in our DataCenter. It acts like hub for our branches.

Pros

  • Simple deploy

Cons

  • Stability on NFVIS

Likelihood to Recommend

Easy of deployment, on Azure or on UCS

VU
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Cisco Meraki vMX
3 years of experience

VPN is awesome with Cisco Meraki vMX

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Cisco Meraki vMX in our Azure environments in USA. We are looking for a simple way to connect Azure with our offices around the world and also a way for developers to use AnyConnect to directly connect into Azure securely and utilize our common security policy. It is quick and easy to deploy.

Pros

  • Anyconnect VPN
  • Easy to Deploy
  • AutoVPN with remote offices works like a charm

Cons

  • AnyConnect functionality (certificate based authentication)
  • Support for more bandwidth
  • Easier to setup redundancy without two licenses

Likelihood to Recommend

Site to Site VPN between remote office and Azure / AWS

Remote User VPN with AnyConnect

IY
Ining Yang
VP of Engineering in Engineering at Axelliant (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Cisco Meraki vMX
5 years of experience

Virtually Perfect- vMX another Meraki 5* product!

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are utilizing a single vMX as an edge appliance to forward our Meraki logs to our SEIM. It’s not doing a ton of compute or any advanced routing. However, it’s been bulletproof, encountering zero issues over 2 years.

Pros

  • Easily deployable
  • Great alerting
  • Included in Meraki dashboard

Cons

  • Like all Meraki products- has a big price tag

Likelihood to Recommend

We are a heavily invested Meraki environment, from our corporate locations to APs. Using a vMX as apposed another solution is a no brainer. It integrates well, has the same benefits as the rest of the Meraki stack, and you can leverage your favorite cloud platform.

VU
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Cisco Meraki vMX
4 years of experience

Virtual Cisco Meraki vMX Security Appliance

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cisco Meraki vMX as our security security appliance in front of our Azure environment. Because the rest of our physical locations use Cisco Meraki vMX having the virtual Meraki allows us to tie everything together from one portal like site-to-site VPNs. We can also use global security policies that we only have to program once.

Pros

  • Works well with physical Meraki MX devices
  • Site-to-Site VPNs are easy to set up with other Meraki devices
  • Cisco Meraki vMX provides a great solution for a virtual environment, like Azure

Cons

  • You cannot get as detailed in configuration as a Cisco ASA
  • No offline configuration can be an issue

Likelihood to Recommend

If you are in a situation where you have Cisco Meraki appliances in your physical locations and you need to build a site-to-site VPN tunnel to a virtual environment, like Azure, having a Cisco Meraki xMX is great. Also, you will have one portal to manage all your security settings and firewalls. If you do not use Cisco Meraki in your other environments then the Cisco Meraki vMX may not be the best choice.

VU
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Cisco Meraki vMX
2 years of experience

Cisco Meraki vMX Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cisco Meraki vMX for customers with an Azure tenant instead of using VNGs in Azure. This solution is more stable, and we can standardize our setup with a full-stack Cisco Meraki vMX solution. We really want to use the Cisco Meraki vMX for AnyConnect client VPN with different group policies/ VPN profiles as well, but this doesn't seem to be an option (yet) in Cisco Meraki vMX. Cisco Meraki vMX is easy to set up and manage, just like any other Meraki product.

Pros

  • Stability: Using Cisco Meraki vMX with auto-VPN instead of non-Meraki peers toward Azure
  • Management: Easy to manage on the Cisco Meraki vMX Dashboard
  • Centralization: With Cisco Meraki vMX, we can centralize/ standardize our setups

Cons

  • Client VPN: Cisco Meraki vMX in general needs to implement multiple VPN profiles/ group policies for client VPN
  • Alerts: Cisco Meraki vMX in general should be more consistent in sending alerts. We should receive alarms instantly.
  • Event logs: More in-depth event logs for all Meraki products, such as system crashes, etc.

Likelihood to Recommend

We're using Cisco Meraki vMX deployed in Azure instead of using Virtual network gateways since this setup is way more stable. Our goal is to use a Cisco Meraki vMX for our customers using client VPN/ AnyConnect, but since the feature of using multiple group policies/ VPN profiles is not there yet, this is not an option. Setting the Cisco Meraki vMX up is fast and easy, at least when doing it in Azure.

MB
Malte Bredevang Zielinski
Network and Security Consultant in Information Technology at TD-K A/S (11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Cisco Meraki vMX
1 year of experience
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Meraki vMX - The good, the bad and the ugly

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Meraki VMX as a VPN concentrator for many different customers that have workload in Azure. It’s great compared to Azure VNG, as we can leverage Auto-VPN towards the sites and client VPN for end users.

Pros

  • VPN
  • Client VPN
  • Firewall

Cons

  • Firewall
  • Private DC Deployment
  • Advanced Security

Likelihood to Recommend

It’s great for SD-WAN and overall VPN

VU
Verified User
C-Level Executive in Information Technology (11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Cisco Meraki vMX
5 years of experience

Cisco Meraki vMX - The no-brainer call for Meraki Customers

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are utilizing a Cisco Meraki vMX as an edge to our AWS environment to forward logs to our SEIM. It was extremely easy to integrate and configure to meet our use case within the Meraki ecosystem. It's been extremely reliable with great metrics and alerting. After setting up a competing virtual SDwan edge- Cisco Meraki vMX is the way to go.

Pros

  • Straight forward configuration
  • Great visibility
  • Reliable alerting

Cons

  • Like all things Meraki, licensing isn't cheap
  • The transparency on what model/level could be better

Likelihood to Recommend

If you have an existing Meraki environment, this is a no brainer for a collector, SDWan situation, or cloud environment. The integration and workflow just works seamlessly with other Meraki MX physical appliances. Just know your traffic metrics, and expectations so you can get the right "size" of appliance and not blow the budget. If you aren't already in the Meraki ecosystem, I cannot speak to how this integrates with other products.

VU
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Cisco Meraki vMX
2 years of experience

VMX is virtual instance of Meraki

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

we use this product to extend our Meraki AutoVPN clouds in 3 different regions to public cloud Azure. 3 regional isolated SD-WAN AutoVPN clouds are interconnected via vMX deployed in Microsoft Azure and utilizing Microsoft backbone for interregional traffic

Pros

  • VPN concentrator
  • extension of AutoVPN to the cloud
  • extension of connectivity to cloud without the need of VPN gateway

Cons

  • some organizations may require more throughput than what vMX-L can offer
  • there are almost no security controls as the vMX is in VPN concentrator mode

Likelihood to Recommend

if you need vpn concentrator in passthrough mode for connectivity to Azure, then this is the best solution. It utilizes same meraki MX in virtualized environment. VPN concentrator can advertise subnet summaries that are deployed in Azure. The vMX is stable and it works well. We have been using it for several years and it never let us down.

VU
Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Cisco Meraki vMX
4 years of experience

Network Engineers 2 cents

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Over the last couple of years, Meraki has revamped the vMX to resolve many of the issues I'd be writing about now, there are no currently ongoing issues I face. My only frustration is beta IKEv2 and the Meraki world of living in beta for key features. A couple of years back it was quite a beast to install Cisco Meraki vMX but in recent versions, it has been streamlined quite a bit better, in my opinion. I have deployed Cisco Meraki vMX to several retail chains where POS/DB etc lived in both Azure or aws settings and had to terminate 100+ small spokes to connect back and I never had any problems or issues with the Cisco Meraki vMX. For a good majority of users, this works well. There have been some quirks of who supports Cisco Meraki vMX or the cloud provider etc as there was a line of how far the tac users would go to troubleshoot but I believe that was resolved.

Pros

  • Mesh vpn
  • Set and forget
  • Simplicity

Cons

  • Kill beta concepts
  • System performance metrics that end users can see

Likelihood to Recommend

I've never run into issues using Meraki on customers or sites that are simple or focus on cloud-based apps. Sites that have a lot of on-prem or are more complex appear to max the feature set that Meraki offers. Nothing is more frustrating than working with Cisco Meraki at a bank or customer that has compliance to manage.

MP
Matt Painter, CASP CCNP
Sr. Network Engineer in Information Technology at Network Perception (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Cisco Meraki vMX
5 years of experience
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