We performed a comparison between Hillstone T-Series and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The network security and cloud security are most valuable."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"Easy to implement, and it is also reliable."
"The user interface (UI) is very, very good."
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"It has been stable so far."
"We installed Hillstone T-Series after a ransomware attack. The dashboard and user interface are very good."
"The only firewall able to monitor traffic from a CCTV network. Can detect unauthorized devices plugged into the network, which standard firewalls can't do."
"It provides complete security posture from end-to-end. This has given us better visibility into what our security aspects are."
"The most valuable feature is that you can launch it in a very short time. You don't have to wait for the hardware to arrive and get it staged and installed. From that perspective, it is easy to launch. It is also scalable."
"It has the ability to create Palo Alto VM-series using software."
"It has excellent scalability."
"The most valuable feature is the CLI."
"In the newer version, there are 3850s, all of them are scalable. They fit better into the medium or small businesses."
"The VM series has an advantage over the physical version because we are able to change the sources that the machine has, such as the amount of available RAM."
"App-ID and User-ID have repeatedly shown value in securing business critical systems."
"Security is a continuous process. In every product, there is a requirement for improvement. Its pricing should also be improved according to Indian market requirements. They must also improve on the reporting part. Its reporting can be more precise. If we can get a real-time report in a specific format, it will be helpful for customers to know about the current status of their security."
"It is quite new for us, and we need to go more in-depth into the monitoring tools. It provides different features that we need to do what we want. So far, it is okay for us. In terms of improvement, in the future, they can provide a faster implementation of features. Some of the features are first available in other solutions. Fortinet sometimes takes a little bit longer than other solutions, such as Check Point, to implement new features."
"The improvement is related to logs. Instead of the CLI, we should be able to have more insights into the logs of the firewall in the GUI."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"The pricing could be a bit better, especially when you consider how they have the most basic offering priced."
"To some degree, it's almost a question as to why some of this stuff isn't simpler. For example, for an AP deployment, while it's integrated, the number of steps that you have to go through in order to get the AP up, seems like a lot."
"The search tool needs improvement. It's very difficult to search for policies right now."
"They need to improve their technical support."
"They have a very good technical support team, but I think there are some communication issues due to language differences."
"Another loophole with Hillstone T-Series is that when we connect through WiFi and turn our hot spot on, all who connect through the hotspot get all the functions, and the security does not work."
"Licensing is not cheap."
"The tool is very costly."
"The command-line interface is something that some people struggle with and I think that they should have an option to go straight to the GUI."
"Integrative capabilities with other solutions should be addressed."
"From time to time, they have released some content updates that have some issues, maybe twice a year."
"I would like to have automatic daily reporting, such as how many users have connected via SSL VPN."
"Palo Alto should update their documentation to make it more readable and provide easier-to-follow instructions through videos."
"The only minor issue we've faced is with the app's ID configuration, which requires specific matching for application filtering."
"The one issue that I didn't like is that the SNMP integration with interfaces didn't record the interface counters."
Hillstone T-Series is ranked 36th in Firewalls with 3 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 52 reviews. Hillstone T-Series is rated 7.4, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Hillstone T-Series writes "Is stable and has a user-friendly dashboard and a good interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". Hillstone T-Series is most compared with Sangfor NGAF, Hillstone E-Series and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Juniper SRX Series Firewall.
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