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."StarWind vSAN was very easy to integrate into our system and ran flawlessly during our entire use time."
"The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"It allows you to use ANY consumer or enterprise HDDs and SSDs, and that's a really great thing!"
"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN provides a clever and unique solution to the Computing Split Brain problem."
"I like the asynchronous replication and failover features. They are what I'm primarily using it for. The asynchronous replication is helpful because our servers are backed up continuously throughout the day. If anything goes wrong we just fail over immediately. That is a very nice feature to have."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"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 most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX is that it is self-contained."
"It is very scalable. It is also very secure. Cisco's security portfolio is integrated with it, which makes it secure. It is a platform-based device. Its performance is also fairly good in comparison to any other solution."
"It is a hyper-converged solution which integrates with the network instead of the product."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Overall, the solution is extremely easy, flexible and secure."
"The most valuable features of this solution are scalability, performance, and reliability. It scales well inside of a large data center."
"I like Cisco Intersight."
"Cisco offers very good quality."
"It has the ability to test DR in a controlled, inexpensive way and to restore between environments."
"What I like about Rubrik is its strong focus on security, particularly in combating ransomware threats."
"Rubrik is stable and easy to use."
"Intelligent agent technology."
"The solution’s ransomware recovery, from a security perspective, is one of the biggest features of the product. We don't have to worry about the operational complexity of air-gapped backups and can rely more on the immutability approach. It is a highly valued feature in this solution."
"This is a centralized tool where we are able to schedule backups and perform monitoring."
"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."
"I value the options it has for storage tiering (i.e. whether it should be a flash, SSD, or pushed to the cloud) depending on the data provided."
"I would like an automated installation/configuration despite the fact that their service is very collaborative, a customer should be able to deploy the solution by themselves."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"Initially, when we first started, the sync was horrible."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"For someone entering the IT sector with little knowledge of storage, iSCSI, and virtual disks, they might not find the GUI immediately obvious."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"I struggled when bit figuring out how to go about doing the evaluation."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"Cisco is quite expensive but not in the initial first buy."
"There are sometimes issues with memory failure."
"A stretch function is really needed. Germans think that because of the high availability and the security that two data centers are better but we want edge all in one cluster. This is a needed feature, the cluster feature, and we'd also like to see a possibility for ROBO offices."
"With the cache disk fails in Cisco, the whole node fails, and the workload goes down."
"In the next release, Cisco should add more integration and management capabilities as well as some tweaks to the dashboard that make it more user-friendly. They could also add support for multiple hypervisors."
"We had a bit of complexity to think about how to migrate our legacy infrastructure into Cisco HyperFlex."
"Does not support the stretch cluster, and the interface is not good."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"The interface is still slightly clunky and has room for improvement. They do work with us whenever we mention anything that needs to be done or anything that we want. We find that bringing up the management interface is a little slow and not as intuitive as we would like, but it's been getting better as it evolves."
"The recovery of Oracle databases is too complicated. It is not something that helps the DBA, the Database Administrator, but it should be done by the backup person like many other solutions. Everything is ready for the DBA to recover the database. It is a way of doing things, but I don't think you should give the backup people the ability to do it."
"I want to see more features regarding filtering in the Snapshot Window, as I need to be able to set a filter for specific dates and times. If I want to check an old backup, I must scroll through one or two years of backups to find what I'm looking for."
"Collecting logs in Rubrik is very difficult compared to other tools."
"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."
"In terms of what could be improved with Rubrik, we need to improve the backup for remote sites. The competitors are stronger in terms of their remote office back up. Rubrik needs to improve to be stronger for backup. This is the main thing."
"It is a lot more expensive than other solutions, but you get what you pay for."
"I have a personal want which might not necessarily make sense with Rubrik as a company or Rubrik as a software, but it'd be really nice if they could also handle things like item-level backups and restores of Active Directory objects and DNS and DCP objects."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is ranked 8th 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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