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."What I like about Rubrik is its strong focus on security, particularly in combating ransomware threats."
"It has a good interface which is simple to navigate and utilize."
"It works with VMware and Hyper-V without agent installation."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It has a single pane of glass interface."
"The live mount reduces complexity."
"The feature that I found most valuable is Live Mount. You can either mount a virtual machine from a snapshot, or you can mount a volume from the snapshot. You can mount one disk to the server to retrieve data, or you can mount the whole VM, rename it, and use it as a test VM. If your VM gets corrupted, you just mount one from the snapshot, and you have your production VM's backup. So, Live Mount is definitely the best feature for me as an end-user."
"The web interface is user-friendly, clean, and it provides a good summary of what you're protecting at a glance."
"like VxRail because it's fully integrated. The other hyperconverged solutions are also well integrated. They are all highly similar to each other in that regard. But we prefer VxRail for its physical integrations or lifecycle management. It also has vCenter, which integrates the hardware lifecycle management."
"VxRail is an agile solution with easily scalable, simplify operations with software driven automation and lower operational cost."
"I can roll out the system in thirty minutes and the customer can work with it."
"For me, the most valuable feature is in relation to the software updates."
"The most compelling aspect of VxRail lies in its unwavering guarantee of sustained performance for my systems, regardless of their geographical distribution."
"The update process is very convenient."
"The compute is good and we have not had any issues with the vSAN."
"Our clients value being able to upgrade with one click or a few clicks."
"Capacity reports could definitely be improved. It's hard to determine what is using the space and why. For instance, you can see that some host is using 2 TB on the Rubrik node and the disk space on that host is 400 GBs. It's hard to explain how there can be 2 TBs of data on local storage when nothing has changed on the host for the past three days."
"The solution could improve by having fewer VM Stuns."
"They should give more access to the backend capabilities. From a customer point of view, you do not have access to all the features on the system. You have to engage their support to perform some of the tasks. It would be helpful for an experienced engineer to be able to go and do some of those tasks prior to contacting the support."
"I don't like Rubrik's user interface because it's not intuitive, and I find it hard to get the information I need."
"We have some challenges with the solution's reporting because historical reports have some limitations."
"The Office 365 protection could be improved."
"The deployment and configuration of the backup service is something that could be streamlined a little bit, particularly when you're trying to do a SQL workload. You have to install a backup service on the server. You only have to do it once and then you're done, but you have to do that on every server that you want to protect."
"Rubrik could improve in customization options for dashboards."
"Troubleshooting can be a little more difficult than legacy systems."
"If they continue developing their product regarding VMware, it will be one of the best products in the HCI space. In terms of additional features, there is nothing missing because, for data protection, they also have the CDP option for VM. They can protect the VM at any point in time."
"They're getting better with their one-click upgrade. The success factor is now between 85% to 87% with the latest release. They should just continuously improve on that one-click factor and make it more seamless."
"The support protocols have changed after Broadcom acquired VMware."
"My customers want more storage for university databases."
"One area of the product that could be improved is the support."
"A more containerized approach in regards to the interface would be better."
"Its price needs to be improved. It is very expensive. NSX should be licensed together. It will make the network virtualization layer more usable. It would be better if they come together in a bundle, not separately."
Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 86 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 121 reviews. Rubrik is rated 9.2, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Automates the backup and recovery process, reducing manual human errors and global search allows for granular recoveries". 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, Azure Backup and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas VxRail is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and HPE Hyper Converged.
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