We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and Qualys VMDR based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."It is easy to use and can monitor system synchronization and check Storage status. StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) combines flash and disks of the cluster and forms a virtual shared storage “pool” accessible by all hosts. StarWind cuts down virtualization cost and complexity by eliminating the need for a physical shared storage (SAN). -StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured . we get technical support from star wind team when implementation software and after setup if we face any issue."
"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"When we need additional storage but want to keep the size of the SANs manageable, the StarWind Virtual SAN has allowed me to do everything needed."
"The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"Cisco provides the ability to configure BIOS, something that no one else can do, on a remote basis. That's really helpful sometimes. The bus-snooping alteration tool for BIOS is fantastic. That's one of the game-changing features that Cisco alone has at this point."
"It saves space for data centers, which is good."
"The storage system is its most valuable feature. It has eliminated our entire need for having to worry about storage. We were storing a lot of syslog data and using a lot of templates in our data center. With the storage system, we are now saving an enormous amount of space."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Cisco HyperFlex is helping us to put everything in centrally so that we can manage in one place."
"Support is very responsive."
"The solution is stable."
"Overall, the solution is extremely easy, flexible and secure."
"It is a stable solution."
"They also have threat detection which maps threats. There is a feed that comes from Qualys when a new vulnerability is found. It tells us which machines are infected with that vulnerability."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the external channel."
"Detects new hosts along with vulnerabilities."
"Qualys VM has allowed us to know the vulnerabilities we need to prioritize based on the threat levels and the possible impact if there's an intrusion."
"Technical support is great and we've never really had a problem."
"It gives a very good overview of the inventory assessment process, and it can be accessed across our company because it's a global tool."
"The features that are most valuable are the identification, scan features, and the identification of vulnerabilities."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"A great feature would be a wizard and to include a new disk in the SAN. At the moment, including a new disk requires several steps - some that must be done at the OS level and others in each node."
"StarWind Virtual SAN could benefit from better integration with other tools and technologies, such as backup and disaster recovery solutions."
"I would like to see some additional, and possibly clearer, implementation videos with some slower and possibly more detailed descriptions of what the various steps of implementation are for someone who is unfamiliar with high availability and failover clustering in Windows."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"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 of profiles and templates could be improved. Maybe some end profiles that you can use based on your type of deployment would be good."
"The pricing is pretty expensive."
"The architecture separates data, computing, memory, and storage into different parts."
"When it comes to customer needs, the licensing price could be better."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"Cisco has to continue improve the management tools to provide a better command line interface with more functions. That would be better for administration."
"Qualys could improve the inbuilt dashboards."
"Certain integration factors between different options could be improved."
"Qualys could be improved in its overall performance compared to other vulnerability management or scanning tools."
"When you want to cover yourself for scalability, you will be charged for the number you place on the scan itself."
"The only improvement I can think of is on the implementation side. At times it is a bit slow."
"They have integrated with other third parties, but it is still not viable."
"Integration could be better. When you think about scanning, it's not used just with this product alone but with other Qualys products. If you think about the bundle, the product itself is good. But integration with other products and packages has space for improvement. They should also offer a better price for bundles."
"They should make it accessible for more operating systems."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is ranked 8th in HCI with 90 reviews while Qualys VMDR is ranked 3rd in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 76 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is rated 8.0, while Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2. 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 Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure, whereas Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Tenable Vulnerability Management.
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