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."Data archiving is easier and less time-consuming."
"Traditional storage works perfectly with it."
"IBM support is friendly, knowledgeable, and they always respond quickly. They've always been able to find the cause of my problem."
"It is pretty easy to use and maintain."
"It is more efficient than most traditional backup solutions."
"It's very robust and has been on the market for a long time."
"IBM Spectrum Protect is a scalable solution."
"Forever incremental - allows TSM to optimize storage needs."
"I like the new releases that Dell EMC is doing with VMware. They are allowing for flexibility across the hybrid cloud. This allows organizations to use containers and to be able to move into the public cloud, but also not have lock-in. They can come back to the private cloud when they want to, so it's creating a lot of flexibility across the stack."
"The most valuable feature is its high performance."
"Compared with other products, the IT administrator or IT integrator doesn't take much time to get the tool up and running."
"It supports VDI deployment, enabling easy use for running different platforms in similar environments."
"This is a good solution for medium-sized installations especially when it will be coupled with VMware."
"The compute is good and we have not had any issues with the vSAN."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that the storage is integrated with the VxRail so I don't have to go in between systems when I have to monitor my storage."
"I would recommend VxRail, it works for most of the use cases."
"Any feature that is compliant with virtualizing the application should be improved."
"It lacks reporting and an efficient alert mechanism. The GUI could also be improved."
"The features should be a little bit closer together."
"We have run into some periods where we have found some tape issues which were causing us problems, but we resolved them. For some reason, we had a bunch of drives go offline on our disk storage (our virtual library)."
"The reporting could be better."
"We need better protection from ransomware or the ability to identify ways we can protect ourselves from ransomware. Having backups is one thing, but specifically, we need methods to recover if we have a ransomware attack."
"They need to do a better job on Windows, because if you are running Windows, the scalability is more limited than AIX and Linux."
"There have been some sizing issues now, and we are dealing with those."
"In the next release, I would like to see our graphical user interface allow us to manage VxRail clusters and everything on a single pane of glass where I can monitor and shut down the server, similar to a VxRail manager."
"Its price needs to be improved. It is very expensive. NSX should be licensed together. It will make the network virtualization layer more usable. It would be better if they come together in a bundle, not separately."
"The licensing is a bit too costly."
"Lacks integration of licenses so that it's an expensive solution."
"What I find very valuable is VxRail's life cycle management. The life cycle management takes care of everything from firmware to the actual upgrading of the hypervisor and keeps everything up to level."
"Next release, we would like to see online applications."
"Technically speaking, the vCenter and the administration of the integration of the vCenter could be improved."
"In the next release, maybe they could add in integration with the hyper-cloud so it will be easier to do the movement up and back to the cloud in order to scale in and scale out."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 119 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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