We performed a comparison between Rubrik 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."I don't know if it is the best or the worst but it's very easy to install and very easy to balance. Sometimes that it's a problem because the installer of these data gets extremely scared because it's so easy. The product is easy to install, easy to balance, and easy to work with. Another really good point is the instant recovery."
"The solution's technical support team is very responsive and proactive."
"Rubrik's immutability feature ensures the security of our backups by preventing unauthorized alterations. The most effective feature for simplifying our data backup processes is the ability to perform on-demand or scheduled backups and restores, which greatly enhances manageability. The security and compliance features have had a positive impact on our data management practices. We utilize Rubrik not only for virtual machine backups but also for backing up approximately twenty terabytes of unstructured data, including file shares and documents. This allows users to easily restore deleted documents using the Soft Delete feature, depending on the backup frequency."
"The web interface is user-friendly, clean, and it provides a good summary of what you're protecting at a glance."
"A reduced infrastructure complexity and fast to rack and go."
"Rubrik is highly scalable and is easy to do."
"Rubrik, when compared to Cohesity, Dell, and Veritas, was the best of the four."
"The live mount reduces complexity."
"The technical support is very helpful and answers questions whenever we have issues with the product."
"The support has been excellent, especially if you compare it to IBM."
"Management of the hardware and software in one console is the most valuable feature. It's also compatible with vSAN."
"It's very easy to upgrade."
"The most valuable feature is its high performance."
"Compared with other products, the IT administrator or IT integrator doesn't take much time to get the tool up and running."
"When we have a resource contention, we can easily increase the capacity."
"This is a good solution for medium-sized installations especially when it will be coupled with VMware."
"They support Hyper-V and it works with our CloudOut, the cloud DR, but they seem to add features for VMware first and Hyper-V gets added second or sometimes several releases after the VMware feature comes out."
"I would like to see the entire Office 365 product suite backed up by Rubrik. For instance, they do SharePoint and Exchange online, but they don't back up Microsoft Teams. So, I would like to see more of the Office 365 suite added into their backup capabilities."
"The solution needs to be more secure and needs to better protect against ransomware."
"Rubrik's disaster recovery capabilities could be improved."
"It is not Windows Cluster-Aware at the moment or Exchange DAG-Aware. If they add support for these particular use cases, it would be even better."
"The reporting, in particular the customization of reports, needs to be improved."
"It does not offer image-level backups for Hyper-V 2012."
"The solution's reporting feature could be better."
"This solution needs to have the capability where even older versions of hardware can be seamlessly utilized and additional expansion becomes so much easier."
"Supply chain capabilities are certainly hurting us. We're in the process of placing a large order for more VxRail nodes right now."
"Troubleshooting can be a little more difficult than legacy systems."
"The solution is vendor-locked and Dell is the only supplier of VxRail."
"The fact that is based on vSAN is the main issue of this solution."
"My customers want more storage for university databases."
"The full solution is not completely included as a bundle, such as we see with SimpliVity."
"If they can provide deduplication compression through the traditional hard drives, as Cisco does in the HyperFlex system, it will be very cost-effective, especially when it comes to archiving workload. VxRail doesn't allow the mixing of old flash clusters and hyper clusters. When I'm starting with an old flash cluster and it comes to archiving workload, I will also need to attend the new cluster. So, I either manage two different clusters, or I pay and upload my work with the archiving mobile hard drive, which is not cost-effective at all. The main key is to allow mixing between two types of clustering, like Nutanix, or allow deduplication of completion over the period of shared hard drive on SAV. It will be much better."
Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 83 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 120 reviews. Rubrik is rated 9.2, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Easy to use with minimal training required, innovative, good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Zerto 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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