We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and Skybox Security Suite based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"We are running Hyper-V on twin servers in failover, and being able to manage servers from anywhere I need to, virtually, has been a game changer."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"The StarWind tech support is extremely helpful, especially during the initial setup."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"It is helpful as a backup solution."
"It is a complete package. For any kind of on-premises hyper-converged solution, we usually have to separate networks, but Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is a complete solution. It has its own network and storage. The storage part is the most valuable feature."
"It is a solution that best suits thre needs of our organization."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the connectivity, consistency, and that we now have fewer vulnerabilities on the network."
"It is very scalable. It is also very secure. Cisco's security portfolio is integrated with it, which makes it secure. It is a platform-based device. Its performance is also fairly good in comparison to any other solution."
"I find the usability very valuable."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX has improved the way our organization functions on the storage side by having one big storage space for hosting VMs. We do not have to provision other ones. That's a positive aspect of it."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is its performance."
"The way that it's built with three-tier architecture, it makes it very horizontally scalable, so I can have multiple fallbacks. If one machine does fall offline, there are four other machines that are doing the exact same job to pick it up"
"When you import all the assets that you have, like desktops, servers, networks, devices, routers, and then firewalls, and other products, then Skybox makes like, a model of the network, but with context. So, it is not just a model in VIZIO. Or something like it like that. You get the model with context, and, like, it looks like a real network in a real-time. So you can check your network and the security of your network on that model."
"It has a good policy management feature and can provide customers with good quality outputs."
"Change Manager is most important because of the impact on each other of a network change or a firewall change. We want to understand this and to know, beforehand, what the impact of a change will be. We are a large network so that is a very important tool."
"The ability to appropriately prioritize vulnerabilities inside the environment, and then to have visibility into the traffic and rule sets of an organization, are two of the top capabilities that I recommend. Skybox is the only one that does both of those in a single platform."
"It's very supportive and very user-friendly."
"Security review is the most important feature, because it offers a single pane of glass to analyze multiple firewalls."
"Correlates logs and threats and prioritizes; provides network maps;p provides change result context and resulting vulnerability."
"If there was one feature I would like to see it would be a built-in subsystem for managing UPS backups shutdown procedures providing a way to initiate VM shutdown on all host servers, shut down the host servers, then put the fault-tolerant mirroring in standby, and finally shut down the StarWind SANs."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"We don't really have any issues with this product."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"Being able to run StarWind vSAN on top of any free UNIX operating system to build a resilient iSCSI/FTP/SMB storage system would be useful."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"It should be improved in the way it detects the right filesystem image after a complete shutdown of the system or in the case of disaster recovery."
"I haven't been too impressed with the Cisco HyperFlex HX, honestly. It's a hard concept."
"I would like it to be easier to manage the server, create VMs, and manage the VMs on the client."
"It needs improvements in terms of I/O. Sometimes I have felt it is slightly slow while we are trying to provision VMs or access VMs."
"When it comes to customer needs, the licensing price could be better."
"Unlike other options, you need to pay a subscription to Cisco yearly instead of paying for the hardware outright, which makes it more expensive in the long run."
"There is a VMware plugin for HyperFlex, which sometimes it hangs up in our environment, and doesn't function well."
"We had a bit of complexity to think about how to migrate our legacy infrastructure into Cisco HyperFlex."
"I would rate the installation of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series an eight out of ten. It can be complex."
"The initial setup with Skybox Security is hard. You need one or two strong security engineers on your team."
"The vendor's support is terrible."
"The cloud site could be better. They should provide some use cases to help users."
"Skybox Security Suite's attack surface management feature needs improvement."
"It's expensive."
"I've had issues with licensing where, when they were expiring and I asked for the updated licenses, I would the wrong ones. I think their process needs to be straightened out a little bit - I don't know if they fixed it already, it has been awhile. It wasn't as straightforward as it could have been."
"There is room for improvement in the technical support."
"The solution needs to add more automation and orchestration capabilities. Those features would make the solution much stronger."
Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is ranked 8th in HCI with 90 reviews while Skybox Security Suite is ranked 18th in Vulnerability Management with 34 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is rated 8.0, while Skybox Security Suite is rated 7.8. 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 Skybox Security Suite writes "Efficient in vulnerability management, stable and easy to use ". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE SimpliVity, whereas Skybox Security Suite is most compared with AlgoSec, Tufin Orchestration Suite, FireMon Security Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama and RedSeal.
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