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."As the client had acquired another company some distance away, they were concerned about having a single SAN in one location or the other. StarWind vSAN allowed us to keep a copy of the data local to each site without asking the client to pay for two SANs in addition to the two new servers they needed."
"The solution is also quite flexible. As an example, other vSAN solutions that we looked at had more stringent requirements regarding mixed HDD/SSD storage which wouldn't have worked in our environment."
"It has allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"Having the ability to migrate machines live in our environment was made possible by this software."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"We went from "no way DB applications would have good performance" to "Wow! We can now actually have a DB running and have some VMs running at the same time.""
"The features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"The flexibility is its most valuable feature; the ability to quickly deploy a number of help machines. It is not constrained by what we want to do."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is the integration with everything in a much smoother, such as in physical and virtual environments. VMware NSX is a simpler solution but, Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is more robust compared to VMware NSX."
"Overall, the solution is extremely easy, flexible and secure."
"Support is very responsive."
"On the VDI side, because the storage is local to the HyperFlex, it was very easy and convenient. The performance is exceptional."
"It has reduced the time it takes to put the servers in production by half the time."
"The ROI we have seen from the high performance that has saved us time and money."
"The reporting is fine."
"There are fewer false positives when using this solution."
"Vulnerability management is the most valuable one and it’s a must in every organization."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the external channel."
"It's a good product. After the scan our internet works well. It scans our security posture."
"The reporting functionality is great."
"Tech support is helpful."
"Provides great functionality."
"It would be nice if we could designate pools, or tiers, for storage of different speeds, and then assign rules to new VMs that would automatically place them into the proper pool."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"There is no IPv6 support. That is our only issue at this time."
"For someone entering the IT sector with little knowledge of storage, iSCSI, and virtual disks, they might not find the GUI immediately obvious."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"In all areas the product could be made faster."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"One of the biggest problems with HyperFlex HX is that if you want to adjust your solution in terms of processing power, memory, or disk capacity, you have to buy completely new hosts. From a financial perspective, it can be very expensive to do so, and from a legal perspective, there are all kinds of compliance issues we would have to sort out before buying any new solution or application."
"The deployment could be made a little bit easier, as we still seem to struggle with it a little bit for a day or so to get it running."
"We had a bit of complexity to think about how to migrate our legacy infrastructure into Cisco HyperFlex."
"In the next release, I would like to see them able to connect to the public cloud."
"The additional feature I would like to see included in the next release of this solution is more security. We want to add more data servers to all the hosts all over the world. We have 140 hosts that connect to one data center in Manila."
"When it comes to customer needs, the licensing price could be better."
"We need to be able to scale out and not just up. When you want to scale up or scale out, you are quite limited."
"I would rate the installation of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series an eight out of ten. It can be complex."
"The reporting and the GUI need improvements."
"I would like to have CSPM, a continuous scan-like cloud added to the solution."
"The IoT scan is not great."
"Qualys VM could improve by having more skilled support personnel."
"It's too early for me to say if there is any room for improvement since we're in the first couple of months of using this solution."
"The reporting in this solution can be improved."
"The customer support is very bad."
"Certain integration factors between different options could be improved."
Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is ranked 8th in HCI with 90 reviews while Qualys VMDR is ranked 3rd in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 77 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 HPE SimpliVity, 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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