We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and VxRail based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."The amount of data that it protects with very little storage by doing incremental forever is one of its most valuable features."
"With Spectrum Protect, you can use any type of disk to back-end the repositories. It gave us flexibility to use whatever storage we wanted at our secondary site."
"SPIR is Instant Recovery for Spectrum Protect. It sends snapshots using space efficiently and blocking backups to the Spectrum Protect server. It provisions the snapshot from the backup server to the same or new server near instantly."
"The D2D2T archive of my PACS data improved after I put Spectrum Protect 8.1.4 into production."
"A robust tool which allows us to backup pretty much any environment, virtual or physical."
"Enterprise-wide type of architecture supports a lot of different platforms."
"We have been using it for several years, and it is quite reliable and predictable. We are quite comfortable with this solution. They're coming up with new features as well. It has good scalability, and it provides good integrations with business-critical applications or databases, such as SAP HANA. It works as expected, and we don't see any issues."
"We can scale. Today, we have an average backup volume of 100TB a day."
"It's somewhat hard to speak about specific features, but I like VxRail's simplicity and ease of use. It's a decent solution for customers with a small footprint. If you're operating a big data center, it's not easy to position VxRail or HCI solutions, but when you have a small customer managing many different components, it's easier to work only with one solution."
"You don't have to worry too much about the hardware and you don't have to work on integrating a storage device. We instead have this as an all-in-one solution and everything is available as a box."
"The most valuable features are ease of management and ease of applying updates."
"VxRail performs well in the VDI environment."
"There is no in-depth config involved nor third-party needed, saving us time and money."
"Updating the product has been very easy."
"This is a good solution for medium-sized installations especially when it will be coupled with VMware."
"It's a turnkey solution, which is good for customers, because they are buying into stability."
"The product should be improved to save more space."
"We recently had a situation where we quickly got code, and the number of tapes exceeded the library capacity so we were waiting a while to change. We got a fix for this right away."
"The only thing that I would like to have a little more of is insight in reporting. I find that Spectrum Protect needs a lot of monitoring, and I have to actually log into the servers."
"We did not see any drawbacks to IBM Spectrum Protect before assisting a customer using Windows that wanted to migrate to using UNIX. IBM Spectrum Protect does not offer an option to migrate from other operating systems."
"I want to see better compression than what it currently does."
"I think Spectrum Protect's interface is not so user-friendly, but the interface is not so friendly. Some of the functions are too complicated. I prefer a simpler solution."
"Generally, the implementation of virtualization could be improved. The workflow service and so on are not working properly."
"We have had some problems about using storage agents on the X6 environment. It is not quite stable, but it is also not supported in a virtualized environment."
"The initial setup is very complex."
"It would be nice if the update process was shortened and that patching would be simpler."
"When we have a vulnerability or we need to upgrade VxRail, it takes a long time. It takes eight hours each time we upgrade."
"Integration could be improved."
"The price should come down a little bit. It has become better than it was at the beginning. There was a really big price difference between a hyper-converged infrastructure and the classic servers and storage. The gap is lessening, however, it's still there."
"Its price could be better."
"I would like to see integration with vCenter if possible."
"If we could have some out of the box ideas in integration, I think that would be a great feature."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 120 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Performance and recoveries are better, and customers are happier with performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Rubrik and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and HPE Hyper Converged.
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