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, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"Updates to server hardware are now painless and done during working hours with zero stress. We had a RAID failure a few months back, and nobody in the building even noticed and there was no after hours time used for repair."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"The StarWind products have enabled our organization to modernize stations where larger and more expensive equipment was not an option."
"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.""
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere is a software-defined storage solution that has reduced administration time for storage. It's pretty straightforward to install and setup it and so far it has been robust and worked as advertised from StarWind."
"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."
"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."
"It's easy to get the tool started."
"Stretch cluster allows us to warranty a service for the customer."
"Great integration with backup software."
"I love the Cisco design, the visual interface to manage and use the platform."
"It is helpful as a backup solution."
"Offers very good data protection and provides system uptime availability effectively."
"The solution offers very nice dashboards and they've recently added a very good Java-based web interface."
"Skybox deployment is simple, and it's very useful."
"The port division management was the solution's most valuable aspect for our organization."
"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 can be integrated with a vulnerability management solution. When a client comes, apart from pitching network and firewall change management, we are recommending having vulnerability management. So, rather than just having the audit of the firewall, they can integrate it with their vulnerability management solution, which could be Rapid7, Qualys, or any other solution. This provides them the most value out of the platform. That is the way we are approaching our customer base."
"The performance could be good because we chose it at the time, but it is too complex for us to appreciate its performance because we lack the necessary skills."
"We use Network Assurance for network visualisation and troubleshooting."
"We are currently working on rule review and compliance. The logging features are good."
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"A central management console may be nice to see all nodes."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"It is not very clear within the StarWind Management Console or the StarWind support documentation how to perform maintenance on a single node in a two-node HA cluster."
"There is no IPv6 support. That is our only issue at this time."
"There is one issue as far as licensing goes and that is a lack of documentation online for users when transitioning from the free version to the paid version, or vice versa."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"The storage layer seems to be a little better on the VMware than on HyperFlex side."
"Its price could be better."
"A stretch function is really needed. Germans think that because of the high availability and the security that two data centers are better but we want edge all in one cluster. This is a needed feature, the cluster feature, and we'd also like to see a possibility for ROBO offices."
"Lacks easy integration with other vendors."
"One aspect that really needs to be looked at, is to fix the bugs issue."
"The initial setup of the Cisco HyperFlex HX platform was medium-level difficult. It's a little bit different from traditional servers. It takes getting used to the learning curve."
"Deployment scripts can be improved since several clans need to be created before the deployment effectively works."
"The product does not have a cloud version...The product should be made more flexible in terms of integration capabilities."
"Reporting. A lot of the reports, out of the box, are limited to a certain number of either configuration violations or access rule violations. So when you first set up a new firewall to be monitored by Skybox, you don't get a real full report. You have to really tweak it to get everything."
"It's expensive."
"Skybox should improve their UX features by making them easier to use."
"The solution needs to add more automation and orchestration capabilities. Those features would make the solution much stronger."
"The stability is something that is questionable. I don't know whether it is because of the kind of infrastructure we have or because of the product in itself. We're running it on a virtual machine right now. Maybe once a month, or once in every 45 days, it requires a restart because the application fails to connect. So I have to restart the whole Skybox Manager itself, the Skybox server itself, and then connect to it from our Skybox Manager."
"The cloud site could be better. They should provide some use cases to help users."
"The initial setup with Skybox Security is hard. You need one or two strong security engineers on your team."
"The most recent update was not tested with all of the vendors before it was released, so some of the features are misbehaving."
Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is ranked 8th in HCI with 90 reviews while Skybox Security Suite is ranked 19th 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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