We performed a comparison between Dell PowerFlex and Rubrik based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"This solution has a very good user interface, with simple administration/management."
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"The resiliency and data protection are the most valuable features."
"Perfectly suits customers dealing with the combination of future storage needs and, at the same time, keeping up their computing power."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is integration."
"We're doing a lot of VMware for IT so this solution is really valuable from a VMH point of view. We're trying to assist our customers mainly with management, because that's what they want. The most important aspects are ease of management, as well as ease of configuration, allowing them to attach additional nodes and resources for the applications."
"The solution is quite stable."
"The solution was connected to alternate storage. It provides great scalability and reliability."
"The solution is scalable."
"The support is highly responsive."
"It works with VMware and Hyper-V without agent installation."
"A Google-like file search, system scaling, and a frequent development cycle are some positives that this solution offers."
"The most valuable feature is the archive to cloud location and the automation around the PowerShell script. There are also reports and dashboards."
"Rubrik is highly scalable and is easy to do."
"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."
"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 most valuable feature of Rubrik for me is its user-friendliness and efficiency."
"Time dedicated to backup was drastically reduced."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"In the next release, they could make some graphs of the real-time loading, speed of storage, and interfaces. Of course, these can be viewed in other places. But, in the event of a malfunction or troubleshooting, this would be convenient."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"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."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"The storage capability must be improved."
"There should be more functionality available for routing."
"They should provide continuous support for data migration."
"We're also running Hyper-V virtual machines. But we recently discovered that migration of the Hyper-V virtual machines is a bit challenging. Maybe if Dell EMC can come out with a tool that will make it very easy for us to migrate the Microsoft Hyper-V machine, that may be an improvement."
"The biggest issue with the solution is that it doesn't support Hyper V. It's a big problem."
"Licensing restrictions can be frustrating."
"The solution needs to offer more documentation and educational materials."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly interface."
"It is already very well furnished, but live mounts for Nutanix AHV would be amazing."
"We have some challenges with the solution's reporting because historical reports have some limitations."
"The Polaris piece could use improvement. When you get a report and you have events that are suspicious, you cannot drill down and find out why it's suspicious. You only know it's suspicious, but you don't know the root cause. Other than that, everything works well."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see more openness for partners to access and assist in system management. Currently, access is limited, often handled by Rubrik personnel, likely due to security concerns."
"Better integration for complex NAS structures having to mount at root adds time and workload to the process of NDMP."
"Pricing is something that needs to be considered for improvement."
Dell PowerFlex is ranked 8th in HCI with 20 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 86 reviews. Dell PowerFlex is rated 8.0, while Rubrik is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Dell PowerFlex writes "Infrastructure management solution that offers rapid provisioning of computer storage but the APIs and enablers for custom automation could be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Automates the backup and recovery process, reducing manual human errors and global search allows for granular recoveries". Dell PowerFlex is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Zerto and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain).
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