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 Virtual SAN is a very easy-to-use solution that can be quickly and easily deployed and configured without intimate and specific knowledge in the virtualization sphere."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that the nodes are Active/Active, and allow us to do upgrades on any node without any downtime."
"This software lets us maintain storage redundancy across both of our Hyper-V hosts, so if one goes down the environment fails over to the other and we have minimal to no downtime."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."
"This solution has a very good user interface, with simple administration/management."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"The automation is a valuable feature, it's interesting."
"The management feature is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"It is very scalable. It is also easy to scan."
"The management from the switches to the hyper-convergence solutions are quite good and well-developed."
"The most valuable features of this solution are scalability, performance, and reliability. It scales well inside of a large data center."
"We are providing this solution for the customer or converting the customer from a traditional environment to a hyper-converged environment which consolidates all management and support on a single port. This is the main benefit of using the hyper-converged versus the traditional."
"It's easy to get the tool started."
"The ROI we have seen from the high performance that has saved us time and money."
"What I like about Rubrik is that you can back up to the cloud. It is a different kind of backup where you're not archiving the tape. Rubrik is a physical appliance. It is a dedicated appliance to which you can back up, and you can also back up to another device. So, you can back up to Rubrik and then to another device. If you have more than one site, you can set up Rubrik on site A and also on site B. You can back up to the Rubrik on site A and then replicate that data to the Rubrik on site B."
"What I like about Rubrik is its strong focus on security, particularly in combating ransomware threats."
"The fact that the API is so available to us with the playground — there's an internal and public playground — is also valuable. We can write API calls — and although I'm sure there's a way we could hurt the data — we write those calls with a lot of certainty that we won't be destroying anything. We write these API calls using really easy mechanisms and generate automation a lot faster."
"I haven't encountered any bugs or glitches using the solution."
"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 very simple to implement and setup. "
"Rubrik has improved our organization by minimizing downtime."
"Drives the back-end through a powerful, well-documented API."
"When StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere nodes go offline unexpectedly, the nodes have to re-sync disks fully which takes a long time. We had a power failure and when both nodes came online, VMware vSphere didn't see StarWind disks before I manually re-scanned them form ESXi administration console even though it should happen automatically"
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"In all areas the product could be made faster."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"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."
"There is no IPv6 support. That is our only issue at this time."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"One aspect that really needs to be looked at, is to fix the bugs issue."
"Lacks some integration and documentation could be improved."
"Sometimes when there are multiple technologies involved in a support case, this is when there is a bit of a lag."
"They can't get a POC to work because there are big latencies between the two sites we have. Even though we have a private fiber connection and everything else works well, they can't get the two products to talk to each other. They are not able to build it up. It looks like it's a firmware issue. They said it isn't but now it's looking like it is. I hope we can sort it out."
"Does not support the stretch cluster, and the interface is not good."
"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."
"The initial setup could be faster, due to the prerequisites."
"You cannot just apply the VSXi updates. You are dependent on Cisco HyperFlex for metric services, analytics, and everything else. I don't like that dependency."
"We would like to be able to do granular restores directly from Exchange. Also, more granular management of VM backups would help."
"The dashboard and user interface could be improved to make them more user-friendly."
"Pricing is something that needs to be considered for improvement."
"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 needs to keep innovating to stay relevant in the data management field."
"I would like a way to set monthly backups on a certain date and time."
"It is already very well furnished, but live mounts for Nutanix AHV would be amazing."
"A singular system is needed to manage all of the clusters."
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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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