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."A typical system administrator with minimal experience in Hyper-V, VMware, or Windows can do VSAN configuration and maintain VSAN operations."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"They offer top-tier support."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"It allows me to configure High Availability and failover clustering with some fault tolerance, at a cost point that doesn’t break the bank for a small business budget."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"When we use it for VDI solutions, it is very easy to deploy and support."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is the integration with everything in a much smoother, such as in physical and virtual environments. VMware NSX is a simpler solution but, Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is more robust compared to VMware NSX."
"There are some slight cost advantages when you need fewer resources to manage it."
"It is scalable and easy to use."
"We used to have a single customer-facing data center, which was vulnerable to failure. This product has allowed us to create high availability between two private data centers."
"It's very easy to use and quite a mature product."
"The technical support has been helpful. We are always able to get through to the right person."
"The most valuable features of Rubrik are the restoration and ease of use."
"We have a great success rate for backups with Rubrik and because of the ease of automating tasks, we also run periodical restores to check the quality of the backups."
"Rubrik is very simple to implement and setup. "
"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."
"I would rate the solution's web interface at eight out of ten. It's just fantastic and intuitive. It's so easy to use. I've never done any formal training on Rubrik, but I was able to quickly come to grips with its capabilities."
"Rubrik, when compared to Cohesity, Dell, and Veritas, was the best of the four."
"Drives the back-end through a powerful, well-documented API."
"The most valuable feature is the archive to cloud location and the automation around the PowerShell script. There are also reports and dashboards."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"vSAN's free version does not have a graphical user interface."
"I would like to see more monitoring and alert tools."
"It should be improved in the way it detects the right filesystem image after a complete shutdown of the system or in the case of disaster recovery."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"StarWind Virtual SAN architecture is slightly complex and requires the team to carefully identify and study how the solution integrates with VMware vSphere."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"The primary improvements should be made in the cluster storage controller VMs so that they don't break the upgrade process."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"When it comes to customer needs, the licensing price could be better."
"The scalability could use improvement."
"Deployment scripts can be improved since several clans need to be created before the deployment effectively works."
"The architecture separates data, computing, memory, and storage into different parts."
"Sometimes when there are multiple technologies involved in a support case, this is when there is a bit of a lag."
"One aspect that really needs to be looked at, is to fix the bugs issue."
"Rubrik could improve in customization options for dashboards."
"The integrated reporting is not really that nicely built. The reporting functionality could definitely be a little bit more customizable from an administration perspective, with an easier to understand interface."
"We would like to be able to do granular restores directly from Exchange. Also, more granular management of VM backups would help."
"Needs integration with video CD (coming in the next release) and a multi-tenant GUI."
"There are some corner cases where the Rubrik Connector (Agent) still doesn't work for our clients."
"Rubrik needs to continue to listen to their customers and what they want/need, not just care about money and the bottom line."
"Its cost is high."
"The reporting, in particular the customization of reports, needs to be improved."
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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 82 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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