We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and VxRail based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."It scales well for the amount of clients that we use with it."
"IBM Spectrum Protect is a scalable solution."
"The scheduled backups ensure we meet the requirements for our business, and we keep backups of certain environments."
"It is more efficient than most traditional backup solutions."
"The feature we have found most valuable is when you want to integrate it with a Tape Library and then do the DRM life cycle. That is when it works the best."
"It saves you a lot of storage."
"I have found that the most valuable feature is useful documentation and troubleshooting."
"It helps our customers protect their data, especially with stuff like ransomware, compliance, and regulatory requirements."
"VxRail is easy to deploy and easy to scale up."
"The stability continues to get better and better. It's pretty reliable."
"VxRail has improved out organization because we are trying to be a little more proactive and elastic. We are trying to change our conventional approach to development."
"The manageability for controlling the console is the most valuable feature."
"It has a valuable deduplication feature."
"It is the most valuable Software Defined Storage ever to manage all storage workloads, and also offers high availability."
"Cost-effective and easy to install."
"I have found the vSAN is highly flexible. The documentation is good and the interface of the solution is responsive and fast. The interface has everything you need to manage the solution, such as the VxRail and VMware integration. You can manage the hardware from within the VMware plasma pan."
"Stability is very good now. It used to be rocky years ago."
"This solution is not mature in terms of disaster recovery and could be improved."
"I think Spectrum Protect's interface is not so user-friendly, but the interface is not so friendly. Some of the functions are too complicated. I prefer a simpler solution."
"The installation process could be simplified."
"Customers have migrated off of it because of its lack of virtual environment functions."
"They need to reduce the complexity and make the learning curve easier."
"The product should be improved to save more space."
"I would like to advance reporting and analytics for the platform to see how much data is coming into the platform. how much data is expiring everyday, and what tape savings we are getting through reclamation."
"I would like to see Dell take a crack at simplifying the process of moving from a node to a cluster and assembling everything into the appliance. It would be great if Dell could provide a pathway where a customer could actually install it without the certifications. Of course, I can't say how you would dumb down something so complex."
"The product has high pricing. This particular area needs improvement."
"Deployment was not initially straightforward for us. We had an incompatibility issue that was very difficult for Dell Professional Service to solve."
"We'd like to see more automation capabilities in the future."
"When we have a vulnerability or we need to upgrade VxRail, it takes a long time. It takes eight hours each time we upgrade."
"Pricing could be improved."
"It needs faster deployment of security patches."
"The solution is okay to scale vertically but a bit difficult to expend horizontally. For example, increasing RAM."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 117 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Performance and recoveries are better, and customers are happier with performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Rubrik and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and HPE Hyper Converged.
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