We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and Rubrik based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"The failover protection and the ability to expand storage and nodes with no downtime are by far the best physical features we have benefited from."
"StarWind allowed us to deploy highly available shared storage within our budget."
"They offer top-tier support."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"Easy to spin up and operate virtual machines without the overhead of managing a storage network."
"By configuring networks, we are saving power."
"Its most valuable feature is its flexibility."
"The scalability of the product is quite good overall - as long as you plan correctly from the outset."
"I love the Cisco design, the visual interface to manage and use the platform."
"The compute storage and virtualization come all in one box."
"The ease of use and the graphical user interface (GUI) are two of the most valuable features of this solution."
"We are providing this solution for the customer or converting the customer from a traditional environment to a hyper-converged environment which consolidates all management and support on a single port. This is the main benefit of using the hyper-converged versus the traditional."
"Rubrik has led to improvement by reducing the amount of failed backups, leading to a reduced workload in IT operations."
"We do like the instant recovery... Now, we say, "Okay, give me 15 seconds and I can get this back up for you." And within that 15 seconds it's on and the only thing that we have to do afterwards is vMotion it off of the Rubrik storage back to where it should rest."
"Instant recovery because it takes about 10 seconds to restore the VM from backup to production"
"Time dedicated to backup was drastically reduced."
"Rubrik is stable and easy to use."
"Disk mount that lets a restore happen immediately, no need to re-hydrate."
"Mounting recent backups to create new servers rather than cloning servers in VMware drastically cut down required time."
"The most valuable features of Rubrik are the restoration and ease of use."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"We don't really have any issues with this product."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"The problem is that we always have to keep an eye out for new releases to make sure that the version we're running is up-to-date."
"Cisco is a bit more challenging in terms of deployment. The admin must be knowledgeable in order to complete the task. Without that knowledge, it will be difficult to complete."
"Unlike other options, you need to pay a subscription to Cisco yearly instead of paying for the hardware outright, which makes it more expensive in the long run."
"The initial setup could be faster, due to the prerequisites."
"We are moving further out with more cloud solutions, so we need HyperFlex to be more cloud-connected. They should develop more connection to Amazon Web Services and Google cloud because our customers use their services and are moving in that direction."
"One aspect that really needs to be looked at, is to fix the bugs issue."
"The initial setup can be a bit complex."
"Deployment on-prem was quite difficult."
"I would like a way to set monthly backups on a certain date and time."
"Rubrik is expensive."
"Collecting logs in Rubrik is very difficult compared to other tools."
"Troubleshooting failed backups is difficult, and deciphering the logs without the help of support is usually almost impossible."
"I would like to see more information on encryption with the next release."
"There are some features to improve on in Rubrik. For instance, they should have a tool where we can integrate with our SAP HANA. Directly from the HANA studio, we should be able to do a backup. That's what I'm looking forward to in the future."
"I would like for unmanaged backups to be able to be saved in a separate policy."
"Rubrik needs to continue to listen to their customers and what they want/need, not just care about money and the bottom line."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 90 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 83 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Rubrik is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] writes "A fast and easy deployment that allows secure access to our medical applications ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Easy to use with minimal training required, innovative, good support". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE SimpliVity, whereas Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Zerto and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain).
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