# Runecast Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Is Runecast the right Virtualization solution for you? Explore 34 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/175477/Runecast-Analyzer/reviews --- Runecast 4.9 (34) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Reviews of Runecast Ease of use 4.8 Customer Service 4.7 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 34 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Chad L. Network & Helpdesk Manager Construction Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Runecast simplifies IT Security/Vulnerability Management" September 1, 2022 5.0 Runecast took me less than 15 minutes to deploy on my own and needs little to no maintenance. It just works every single time. I never have any problems with it and support is always friendly and prompt when I do need help with a license issue or something. I cannot rate this product highly enough. Pros The thing I like most about this software is its ease of use. I simply pull up the dashboard and I can visually see based on colors how severe a vulnerability is. I can then very easily drill into any of the vulnerabilities Runecast detected and get valuable information on how to mitigate the vulnerability in question. Cons The only thing I would improve about this software is creating more "push button" compliance assessments (NIST, CMMC, etc.). Review Source Response from Runecast Solutions September 7, 2022 Chad, thank you for your feedback, we really appreciate it! Paolo V. System Engineer Cosmetics Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "System Engineer, I design and manage IT services. Author of Nolabnoparty.com tech blog. " May 30, 2018 5.0 I can have the situation of my virtual environment always under control from a centralized console knowing if anything bad is occurring to the infrastructure. It allows me to save time and plan appropriate maintenance windows avoiding services disruption. Pros An easy to use solution, very useful to prevent potential issues on your virtual infrastructure. The well designed Dashboard allows you to have the overall status of your infrastructure from a single pane of glass. Being constantly under development, Runecast releases updates as soon as new issues or new KB are released by VMware saving the administrators from potential services disruption. Despite daily checks of the virtual infrastructure, not all issues can be detected on time. If the system has a problem, the users will have a problem. Runecast gives you the information you need to prevent potential and dangerous issues saving lot of time and keeping the environment healthy. Just think about Meltdown and Spectre issue... in large environments to identify hosts affected by this problem takes ages. With Runecast you can have the exact overview of hosts that need to be patched in a matter of seconds. Cons No much to say about cons... for SMBs the application price perhaps can influence the purchase decision but the provided benefits are valuable. Anyway preventing issues surely cost less than fixing. Review Source Response from Runecast Solutions June 4, 2018 Thank you, Paolo! We love your blog and your kind reviews! AS Antonin S. VMware admin Computer Networking Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Tried last year" July 8, 2020 4.0 Pros Easy integration and installation, everything OK. Cons Well hard to say, its almost 2 years, but maybe price? Review Source Response from Runecast Solutions July 9, 2020 Thanks for your review of an older version of Runecast Analyzer. Try our latest release, as we've introduced way more capabilities in the last two years! Andrew H. Managing Director and Technical Architect Used the software for: 2+ years ### "One stop shop, single pain or glass Best Practice and Security Advice, all in one nice panel!" May 18, 2018 5.0 Spent less time, consulting VMware documentation.... Log Analysis against VMware KBs, provides many fixes for issues. Pros It takes the pain away from VMware Administration.... it does what it says on the tin, plug and play, sit back, and then spend some time Security Hardening your VMware vSphere estate, and not forgetting following Best Practice! The real time log analysis against VMware KBs is amazing...!!! Cons What is there not to like about Runecast Analyzer! Be prepared for a long list of todos, after it's analysed your VMware vSphere estate! It's not a software issues, because you should have been following Best Practice and Security Advice...anyway. Review Source Response from Runecast Solutions June 4, 2018 Thank you Andrew, for a great review! VR Verified Reviewer Senior Virtualization Engineer Education Management Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Overall experience was really nice. Deployment and configuration was just few clicks. " May 18, 2018 5.0 Pros The most important thing is ease of use and configuration. Recent release of vCenter plug-in made the life more easier. Routine updates and offline repository usage is one of the other important thing and it helps to maintain a more secure environment without exposing the internal network to the internet and while analyzing the security risks and best practices. Cons To be honest, I have nothing in mind to say bad about this and overall experience was really nice so far. Review Source Response from Runecast Solutions June 4, 2018 Thanks for a great review! We do release regular updates to make sure you are always on top of the latest recorded issues and best practices. We are happy we could make your life easier. Alexis D. Information Systems (IS) Manager Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Easy Ride" May 16, 2018 5.0 It has identified issues and bugs that i had no idea about Pros Its like have a Vmware Technician 24/7 auditing you Vmware Environment, its absolutely great !!!! Cons No Alerting, if wanted alerts from logs. Hope they add these feature to a future release Review Source Response from Runecast Solutions June 4, 2018 Thank you, Alexis, for the awesome feedback! Regarding Alerting - apart from the email report that's currently part of the product, we are working on more sophisticated alerting. VR Verified Reviewer IT Technology Principal Consultant Computer Software Used the software for: ### "Impressive and valuable tool" May 16, 2018 5.0 It helps to mature and secure the vsphere environment Pros I'm impressed by the easy installation in my environment with dozens of remote clusters. It runs very smooth and the first results come in before I can even finish my coffee. It finds all kind configuration issues and gives advise how to fix or improve. Currently testing with the trail version, but hope to switch to the full version soon. Cons The version I use is not creating a trend line for the security score or index and that is useful for my reports. I got from support that it is on the roadmap for a future release. Review Source Response from Runecast Solutions June 4, 2018 And we are impressed by your review - thank you! We are working hard on releasing the historical data report functionality very soon! Gordon H. Cloud Services Manager Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "A vital tool for maintaining uptime for your virtual environment " May 22, 2018 5.0 Pros \- The ease of installation and upgrade. Deployed in 30 minutes and upgraded in 10 - The easy to use interface and to see how many hosts are affected by a particular bug/issue - The ability to group issues into categories Cons \- Reporting could be improved. It would be nice to be able to produce a graphical report that illustrates all the issues diecovered and how many hosts are affected. Review Source Response from Runecast Solutions June 4, 2018 Thank you, Gordon, for the awesome review and suggestions! We are working on extending the reporting options. VR Verified Reviewer Chief Technologist Information Technology and Services Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Best 3rd party software for your vSphere environnements . " August 12, 2018 5.0 Runecast saves hours to any Virtualization Engineer Pros It does what it supposes to do : single interface to discover by referencing VMware KB articles and best practices and then help you to correct issues in your virtual infrastructures : vSphere and now NSX !!! Cons No much to say about cons. I'd like to have a trend of historical report. Review Source Response from Runecast Solutions August 13, 2018 Thanks for the great feedback. Historical trends are coming very very soon :) RP Rob P. Senior Microsoft Consultant Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "An extremely useful pro-active problem solver, with new features being added regularly." May 16, 2018 5.0 Avoiding downtime on production hypervisors, and ensuring everything is running smoothly. Pros It does something unique by cross-referencing KB articles with your VMware estate, bringing a lot of hidden unknowns to the surface so they can be sorted before you have an issue. Cons Just waiting on the PCI checks feature, but I understand this needs a lot of interaction with VMware themselves before they can release. Review Source Response from Runecast Solutions June 4, 2018 Great feedback - thank you, Rob! We keep working hard to add new valuable functionalities and a PCI compliance profile is coming up very soon! Even now Runecast Analyzer already satisfies a large number of PCI-DSS 3.2.1 controls. Check out this article: https://www.runecast.biz/blog/automating-pci-dss-v321-in-vmware-virtual-data-centers-part-1---vulnerability-management.jsp GM Gilles M. IT engineer Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Simple platform checker" May 17, 2018 4.0 Pros Easy to deploy and easy to use, always up to date. Very light. It's all i wanted from this kind of tool Cons I didn't find for the moment something i don't like. It's a good sign no ? ;) I'm am not using it enough for the moment. Review Source Response from Runecast Solutions June 4, 2018 We love keeping things simple, Gilles - thank you for the kind review! MAA Miguel Angel A. Virtualization Solutions Architect Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Simply to install and use. Great features" July 11, 2018 4.0 Pros Wide functionality with vSphere, NSX and vSAN. Easy to implement and use for me and my customers. Great number of articles in Internet Cons features like vCloud Director are important in my customers. We need this feature to monitoring vCD Machines Review Source GP Georgi P. Data Center & Disaster Recovery Manager Pharmaceuticals Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Runesact usage in pharma company" October 20, 2023 5.0 Pros It is easy to implement and use by all IT teams. what is impressive is how deep and detailed the information RuneCast provides. It helps us to quckly identify and mitigate issues. Cons As we're working in a heavily regulated industry, compliance is critical to us Keeping our systems compliant with the regulatory standards is crucial for our IT department. It also helps us to quickly identify and fix any configuration or security parameters of our virtual infrastructures before they become a major problem. Integration of the product into our business was very easy. Review Source Response from Runecast Solutions October 30, 2023 Thank you for your review of Runecast, Georgi! BA Basim A. ICT Technical Senior Manager Aviation & Aerospace Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The best in its league" June 26, 2020 5.0 Pros RuneCast made our life so easy. It look a job of days and turned it into minutes. Not only that, we had to ready each and every best practice document for each release and product (vSphere, vCenter, Horizon), RuneCase made it all in one. It also helped us to verify the compliance of our drivers with the release we use of ESXi as this use to be a manual process too. so easy to deploy... its OVF, assign IP and you are ready to go... so so so simple What I also love about it is that they keep on adding features without asking the customers to pay more or bring up a new license... The best value for money you will ever see in todays products. Cons What I would like to see in RuneCast is that... Customers should be able to define their own baselines and it should compare your installation against it... currently it has built-in (vmware best practices, CIS, etc...), where what I see it should allow us to customize and run the analysis against our settings and then print it in a report format ... this will help us to showcase our compliance to audit team Reason for choosing Runecast I researched a lot those days (2 years back) and came to a conclusion that RuneCast is unmatchable in its field. I haven't researched recently asI'm really happy with the product and not planning to switchover to any new product. Review Source Response from Runecast Solutions June 29, 2020 Thank you for your review and ideas! RV Rob V. Solution Architect Financial Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Runecast at 'de Volksbank'" June 26, 2020 4.0 “Our main goal is to serve our customers with a high-end, feature rich and robust electronic banking environment. With Runecast we can now proactively prevent outages on the systems that provide that environment.” On average, we prevent at least one host crash (or not responding) a month. That means 20 to 30 VM’s are kept running each month instead of annoying a customer with a problem at a cash machine or doing their online of mobile banking. That alone makes it worthwhile for us! We utilize Runecast to prioritise remediation of newly detected issues in each sprint according to their level of severity. We also use it to generate concise monthly reports on the state of our virtual environment. Pros Runecast Analyzer saves De Volksbank’s IT team 75% of time previously spent on troubleshooting and identifying root causes of issues. The tedious manual approach of crawling through VMware Knowledge Base articles has been replaced with proactive automated problem prevention. Cons The upgrade process in the past between major versions. The move from one appliance to another keeping all settings and data. Reason for choosing Runecast Skyline was not available at the time of purchase. Review Source Response from Runecast Solutions June 29, 2020 Thank you for the review! We're glad to hear how well it's working out. YS Yogendra S. Senior Software Engineer Airlines/Aviation Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Review" July 8, 2020 5.0 It is great!! Pros While patching or upgrade to new version you can easily see the compatibility of firmware /drivers both hardware and software. Helps to prevent PSOD by giving the prior suggestions. Cons A complete upgrade matrix for vSphere . by checking all the product company is using. Review Source Response from Runecast Solutions July 24, 2020 Thanks for your review!!! BB Brad B. Systems Architect Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "My experience.." June 26, 2020 5.0 Pros Its easy to use, handy to solve issues.. Cons Product keeps either losing creds or some other issue, as it periodically loses connection to various vcenters..Sometimes the interface can be overwhelming.. Review Source Response from Runecast Solutions June 29, 2020 Thanks for the review, we will keep your feedback in mind with upcoming releases! MS Maurizio S. System architect Banking Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great tool" July 8, 2020 5.0 Pros Ease of use and frequent updates. And very aeasy to set up, too. Cons Not so easy to override an alert. Nothing else. Review Source Response from Runecast Solutions July 9, 2020 Thanks for your feedback! We will pass it along to our development team. OF Oleg F. Head of administration group Railroad Manufacture Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Really nice software which works fast, easy to maintain, good support" May 16, 2018 5.0 Pros Nice software which allows to monitor vulnerabilities and bugs and fix them. It also has features of monitoring and analyzing logs which shows only information you need to know(errors, fails) and groups them. Cons I would like to see more information about logs and their relation and impact on system together with KA and BP and maybe history of fixing bugs graph would looks good Review Source Response from Runecast Solutions June 4, 2018 Thanks for the great feedback, Oleg! We are working hard on the historical graph and it is to be released very soon! HA Henderson A. Director of Network Operations Broadcast Media Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Gave me a quick visual of my entire VMware environment and all the possible issues that existed" May 22, 2018 5.0 This product has save time in remediation as well has helped me better understand some of my initial configuration flaws. Pros The fact that I can see all the issues and potential issues that exist is fantastic, but to be given a direct path for remediation has same me hours of time. Cons To be honest, I haven't found anything that I didn't like about it. It has don't everything I needed. Review Source Response from Runecast Solutions June 4, 2018 Thanks for the great review, Henderson! We are happy Runecast saves you time and helps you understand configuration flaws. We appreciate you putting your trust in us for years now! VR Verified Reviewer Citrix / VMware Engineer Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Very easy to implement and have useful information to optimized and secure a VMware environment" May 16, 2018 5.0 Saves hours of research in the VMware database, help to check compliancy. Pros Easy to install and configure, I have fast result with it. Whatever your environment size, admin will save hours or maybe days with this tool rather than looking for a needle in the VMware KB. Cons Unfortunately it's only for a VMware environment, nothing for Hyper-V or Xen. When implementations allow it, it would be interesting to have a way to apply the correction easily instead of follow the VMware KB Review Source Response from Runecast Solutions June 4, 2018 Thank you for the kind feedback! SP Stephen P. System Engineer Higher Education Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Simple quick compliance check" May 22, 2018 5.0 Makes the life of an administrator Pros It is very easy to see where you are lacking and need to be patched. As well as categorize the different issues into their importance. Cons It would be nice to allow automated patching of systems based on your preferences. This would make this product Review Source Response from Runecast Solutions June 4, 2018 Thank you for the review, Stephen and thank you for your long lasting trust in Runecast. We will continue to works towards making your life as an administrator easier! MS Michael S. Owner Writing and Editing Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great tool to discover hidden issues within virtual infrastructure. Timesaver" May 18, 2018 5.0 I was able to detect issues that I wasn't aware of. Pros simple deployment simple configuration simple update process offline update possible good visualization of issues Cons no defined way to contact support. I did it via Twitter and then I got excellent support. They're should be a contact form on the website or within Runecast to open a ticket. Review Source Response from Runecast Solutions June 4, 2018 Thanks for the great feedback, Michael! There was a temporary maintenance on the website, but the chat support option is now back on the lower right corner of the page. AS Austen S. Architect Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Evaluated this product within test and production environments" August 1, 2018 5.0 Pros It is everything the VMware Health Analyzer tried to be and much more. The comprehensive coverage of applicable KB articles, DISA STIG and best practises summarised across infrastructure qualities makes reporting current states effortless. Also, from a security perspective, the offline capability is priceless. Cons I wish the product had been around years ago. Not much else I can really say about what I don't like about it. Review Source Response from Runecast Solutions August 2, 2018 Thanks for the awesome review, Austen! Vedran B. Leading engineer for support of Data Center Oil & Energy Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "The software reduces the time needed to follow KBs to minimum. " May 22, 2018 5.0 Pros The software reduces the time needed to follow KBs to minimum filtering out irrelevant KBs to your VMware cloud.... Cons It would be nice if it would monitor driver / firmware changes, KBs, matrix of compatibility for hardware. Review Source Response from Runecast Solutions June 4, 2018 Thanks for the kind review, Vedran! 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