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 been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"The features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"Updates to server hardware are now painless and done during working hours with zero stress. We had a RAID failure a few months back, and nobody in the building even noticed and there was no after hours time used for repair."
"The StarWind tech support is extremely helpful, especially during the initial setup."
"PowerShell library is pretty good feature as I created with APC PowerChute a script to put volumes on maintenance mode then turning off the StarWind nodes together with the VM and Hosts when UPS reaches 15 percent, this way after a blackout or electrical problems when turning servers on again, there is no issues for syncing or data loss due to energy interrupts."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"It has allowed me to effectively and confidently manage the maintenance of hosts where I can power off a host and have its VMs migrate to another one."
"The solution can scale up and out."
"The compression and deduplication are very high. Therefore, we can use the size of the product more efficiently than other storage solutions."
"The product is stable. No one complains about the stability, which is fabulous."
"It increases efficiency, decreases the cost, and manages the network in one single way. That's the most important thing."
"The scalability of the product is quite good overall - as long as you plan correctly from the outset."
"When we use it for VDI solutions, it is very easy to deploy and support."
"The most valuable feature is full integration with Cisco API and UCS, which means you can have complete networking and storage from Cisco."
"It saves space for data centers, which is good."
"Live Mount is where we do the majority of our big recoveries, unless it is a file recovery. A file recovery takes a few minutes to restore to where the file in the event a file was accidentally deleted by a user, etc. There has been at least a 90 percent reduction in recovery time based on our previous solution, from the need to recover something to when it's actually recovered went from hours to minutes."
"The ease of use and innovation are the features that stand out for us."
"Cut backup remediation to nearly nothing."
"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."
"It works with VMware and Hyper-V without agent installation."
"Its reporting is most valuable. I like how it reports that everything is successfully backed up. It provides a summarized report that I can give to auditors and management."
"One platform for instant recovery."
"The Live Mount feature is excellent; it's useful for the backup administrator and end user."
"In all areas the product could be made faster."
"When you will cease your contract with StarWind (for support) your product won't be updated and that is a big selling point, especially for us, as we have loads of products from StarWind."
"It would help if the manufacturer provided clearer and more detailed documentation, with explanations of how the application can be installed in various HA configurations."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"The documentation could be better."
"The documentation could be substantially better, but the product itself does everything it needs to do."
"This solution is lacking in replication and backup abilities that I would like to see in a future release similar to HPE SimpliVity."
"It needs more detailed documentation."
"Deployment on-prem was quite difficult."
"The initial setup of the Cisco HyperFlex HX platform was medium-level difficult. It's a little bit different from traditional servers. It takes getting used to the learning curve."
"There should be the opportunity to create more than one div group"
"I would like it to be easier to manage the server, create VMs, and manage the VMs on the client."
"Cisco should combine its features with its prices."
"Setup is immediate but pricing is not cheap."
"Rubrik needs to continue to listen to their customers and what they want/need, not just care about money and the bottom line."
"It needs more storage array integration options and an easier restore for files that download using a browser."
"I would like for unmanaged backups to be able to be saved in a separate policy."
"The licensing cost is quite high. That is something that needs to be worked out, because so many times it happens that the team does not have the budget or there are other issues at that time. Cost has become an important factor in deciding whether to continue with the Rubrik solution."
"The reporting, in particular the customization of reports, needs to be improved."
"I would like to see Rubrik better integrate with Microsoft Active Directory. Instead of just backing up a full domain controller, I would like the solution to have Active Directory object knowledge so we can restore specific objects in Active Directory versus restoring the whole domain controller."
"It needs to support more applications natively, like MySQL/MariaDB."
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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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