We performed a comparison between Rubrik and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Rubrik is very simple to implement and setup. "
"In the event of any issues or questions, the support is top-notch. We rarely need to use support, but when they are needed, they are always quick to respond and very knowledgeable."
"They have a great PowerShell module and easy mediums to speak to the people who create and enhance them."
"The system is able to determine when it is the best time to do backups. This is SLA-driven, and if it is not possible to maintain this SLA, the system will tell you too."
"It has a single pane of glass interface."
"One platform for instant recovery."
"The solution's technical support team is very responsive and proactive."
"The live mounting and compatibility of different operating systems is great."
"High availability is a valuable aspect of this solution."
"If we decide to expand, vSAN could offer us some flexibility. We are researching ways to set this up from a new data center, which is located somewhere different from the current location right now."
"The valuable features are its scalability and the standardization - one size fits all. It's also intuitive and easy to use because one size fits all. Obviously, it scales out, but it's the same solution at every physical location I manage."
"The technical support is good."
"All orchestration and monitoring are routed to the cloud."
"The product's initial setup phase is simple."
"The most valuable features are its price point and that you can use existing storage; no specific storage requirements are needed."
"The features of vSAN allow us to reduce our operational complexity to a large degree."
"They should give more access to the backend capabilities. From a customer point of view, you do not have access to all the features on the system. You have to engage their support to perform some of the tasks. It would be helpful for an experienced engineer to be able to go and do some of those tasks prior to contacting the support."
"Improving PowerShell integration would greatly simplify Rubrik management."
"I hope to see enhancements in areas like data governance and the incorporation of new features in future updates."
"Rubrik can only leverage cloud storage for archiving and has no cloud failover."
"The interface is still slightly clunky and has room for improvement. They do work with us whenever we mention anything that needs to be done or anything that we want. We find that bringing up the management interface is a little slow and not as intuitive as we would like, but it's been getting better as it evolves."
"It needs to keep innovating to stay relevant in the data management field."
"There is room for improvement in pricing. After the licensing, the price tends to go up as time goes by."
"Rubrik's disaster recovery capabilities could be improved."
"It doesn't seem like it gives the performance that an actual SAN would give for heavy IOPS, read/writes."
"Its installation should be easier, and its price should be cheaper. It would be good for the product if they can include the data locality feature."
"The ability to access SAN environments with fiber channels (or even NVMe) would be a good addition."
"VMware vSAN could improve by having better integration with other vendors and the storage is limited, I prefer it to the traditional storage."
"Troubleshooting tools could be improved."
"Disaster recovery needs to be improved, when there is a crisis, there is a problem with what is the quickest way to get out of it."
"This is quite an expensive solution."
"It would be much improved if we could somehow integrate a better backup with it. Right now, we're using Veeam and it's okay, but I would like more of a VDP vSAN solution. That would be excellent. The VDP, at least the last time we looked at, it was just not quite there."
Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 83 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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