We performed a comparison between Rubrik and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."There is a live-restore feature, their Live Mount, and the way it works we can instantly recover a VM, a past backup, to be directly attached to our VMware environment. Rubrik will act as a disk for it. It's like an instant restore. Within a few minutes our VM is up and running. And then, if we want to restore it, we can just migrate it to our actual storage."
"The ease of use is the most valuable feature. It is a very simple system compared to just about any other back up technology. It is extremely easy to use and very versatile."
"It has the ability to test DR in a controlled, inexpensive way and to restore between environments."
"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."
"The product's most valuable feature is the immutability of a backup."
"Replaces legacy tapes and disk backups which are unreliable, expensive and space consuming."
"The file search feature across all backups has been helpful."
"Instant recovery is a good feature."
"The most valuable features are its price point and that you can use existing storage; no specific storage requirements are needed."
"The most valuable features are its performance, simplicity, and synchronicity with vSphere."
"The solution is simple to use compared to other solutions, such as Hyperflex, VxRail, and Nutanix"
"Good performance, reliable and agile."
"The scalability of the solution is most valuable."
"As a function of our core business, it's a sought after tool that helps us provide analytical support across a wide spectrum of client needs. It's allowed us to test out in our connected restaurant - "TheWorks" - a fully-functional restaurant experience center that allows our clients to discover the value of our connected solutions firsthand. We deploy vSAN in this customer-like environment within a hyperconvergent infrastruction (HCI) to give our clients a better understanding and help optimize data and the end-users' experience."
"I have found that the multi-homing feature is very valuable in VMware vSAN. It is an easy-to-use solution."
"The features of vSAN allow us to reduce our operational complexity to a large degree."
"Rubrik can only leverage cloud storage for archiving and has no cloud failover."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I need to create reports to know whether something is available or not, how much frontend data is being protected, etc. Rubrik gives a lot of things in the report, which can be confusing. It isn't very easy to get reports. It shows all the backup, index, replication, and everything else in one report. So, I have to export, filter, and then do the calculations."
"The open source database needs to be supported."
"The product’s user interface needs improvement."
"It is an expensive product."
"Collecting logs in Rubrik is very difficult compared to other tools."
"With multiple Rubrik clusters setup in an environment, it becomes painfully obvious that this product needs a central management console."
"The reporting, in particular the customization of reports, needs to be improved."
"Because of virtual storage, the system reaches reserve storage for its functions. It also consumes a certain amount of storage, which then results in the creation of a fault tolerance for the system. All of this adds to a lot of capacity being consumed in terms of storage for each drive for vSan. I find this to be one drawback of using vSan."
"They should make the software updates easier. We should be able to upgrade it more easily."
"The biggest room for improvement I see in vSAN is the lack of SAN connectivity. I've kind of joked around that there is no "SAN" in vSAN. And it's something that we've worked to try and introduce some options for, and we're going to continue to work towards that."
"The product's complex setup phase is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"I would like compression and deduplication to be offered for offloading hardware, instead of doing it with software. That would be nice."
"It can be very expensive."
"The architecture of vSAN is not good. vSAN works with objects, such as disks, and it causes problems with availability."
"We would really like them to look at what Nutanix did for day-one/day-two operations deployment: Bringing in the equipment, getting it deployed, getting it setup, and ease of use of one-click for deploying our 30-node solution. With vSAN we had to go into each one individually and set it up."
Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 82 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 226 reviews. Rubrik is rated 9.2, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Easy to use with minimal training required, innovative, good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Zerto and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell PowerFlex.
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