We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and SecurityScorecard based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."Integration with Microsoft clustering has been perfect, allowing us to leverage our investment in MS server licensing to the fullest."
"It has reduced the amount of switching, network connections, etc., because the converged StarWind Virtual SAN allows us to connect high-speed network interfaces between different boxes instead of having to connect SANs via the network, then connect those two clusters together."
"The management interface on the software is very simple. It is insanely simple compared to most SANs. The interface is also powerful when used to complete tasks that an IT administrator needs to complete."
"StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"The primary purpose of this software is to create a virtual SAN between local storage on Hyper-V hosts. I find this feature most valuable since it accomplishes this quite well."
"The product creates opportunities with hybrid on-premise solutions."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"The management from the switches to the hyper-convergence solutions are quite good and well-developed."
"Deduplication is a valuable feature available in Cisco HyperFlex."
"Easily facilitates remote work opportunities with storage and compute resources."
"The feature that we are most interested in is the scalability. When needed, we are able to add more nodes and scale it up further."
"The technical support has been very good for this solution."
"The possibility to share the workload is one of its most valuable features. We have many applications which have need of workloads only a few times in a month, so we share HyperFlex with them."
"The workload can handle anything and has an extended capacity."
"The most valuable feature was the backup - it was easy to back up. It was also very easy to administrate and manage the system; much easier and faster. Finally, it was easy to extend the disk capacities."
"With its automated approach, nothing is missed on the IPs your organization is related to."
"I rate the product's initial setup phase a nine on a scale of one to ten, where one is a difficult setup phase, and ten is an easy setup process."
"One of its most effective features for risk identification is its enterprise-ready automation for third-party risk measurements."
"The solution helps identify our environment's vulnerabilities."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"When StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere nodes go offline unexpectedly, the nodes have to re-sync disks fully which takes a long time. We had a power failure and when both nodes came online, VMware vSphere didn't see StarWind disks before I manually re-scanned them form ESXi administration console even though it should happen automatically"
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"I'd prefer it if a remote console was provided."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"Cisco's technical support originally was outstanding, but it has declined over the last 12 months. I've heard they're trying to do better, but I haven't been overly impressed with their support recently for HyperFlex."
"The problem is that we always have to keep an eye out for new releases to make sure that the version we're running is up-to-date."
"Maybe a better version is required to gather all of the information to allow HyperFlex to bring everything online more rapidly."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"The architecture separates data, computing, memory, and storage into different parts."
"Technical support is very good. Not excellent, but good. There's still not enough data available on the web. For example, for the integration to VMware, I had a case recently and I searched for more information but didn't find any."
"We are moving further out with more cloud solutions, so we need HyperFlex to be more cloud-connected. They should develop more connection to Amazon Web Services and Google cloud because our customers use their services and are moving in that direction."
"It is quite new solution, so it is not very stable."
"They could improve the process with a questionnaire module for the product."
"There could be more information in regards to solving problems like hints on what specifically to look for."
"SecurityScorecard's technical team's response time is an area that my company expects to be made faster."
"The tool needs to have the ability to mitigate vulnerabilities with alternative solutions."
Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is ranked 8th in HCI with 90 reviews while SecurityScorecard is ranked 5th in IT Vendor Risk Management with 4 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is rated 8.0, while SecurityScorecard is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series writes "A fast and easy deployment that allows secure access to our medical applications ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SecurityScorecard writes "Easy-to-deploy product with good technical support services ". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE SimpliVity, whereas SecurityScorecard is most compared with Bitsight Third-Party Risk Management, Recorded Future, RiskRecon, Tenable Nessus and Rapid7 InsightVM.
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