We performed a comparison between Commvault Cloud, Oracle Data Guard, and Rubrik based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."IntelliSnap for snapshot collection is one of the most efficient and easiest ways to back up large amounts of data."
"The compression and deduplication are great for optimizing bandwidth and speed. I don't have to worry about it or think about it, and, because it's a SaaS solution, I don't have to worry about the storage size."
"This solution gives me the full insight without having to use other products, metrics, or reporting tools."
"In the VM, we have Live Recovery, Live Mount, and Live Sync."
"Commvault helps to ensure broad coverage with the discovery of unprotected workloads. This is important. From the moment that we set it up, we mostly have customers telling us what they need to back up. Then, you can list the machines that are not yet protected. Sometimes, we can see that they are unaware of this, and say, "We didn't know that those servers were not protected yet," or "We did not back them up yet.""
"The solution’s user interface for managing the on-prem environment is good."
"The features I find most helpful in Commvault are its ability to perform incremental backups and significantly reduce backup times for our diverse multi-architecture, multi-environment environment."
"Not everyone has agents for everything and Commvault has agents for most products. It's the most complete."
"Oracle Data Guard is a free solution. When you apply for Enterprise Manager, it comes for free with the solution."
"With Data Guard, Oracle guarantees zero data loss, providing peace of mind for organizations relying on their data for critical operations."
"Snapshot and Data Guard Manager are awesome features."
"Another valuable feature is the possibility of backing up the database from the standby database instead of the primary database, to avoid backup process overhead in the primary system."
"Oracle Data Guard is scalable. I rate it a ten out of ten."
"The solution can scale as needed."
"The most valuable aspect for me is undoubtedly the failover capability and the assurance of data safety provided by Oracle Data Guard."
"We have not encountered any major challenges with replication. We were able to achieve near-real-time replication. Also, with the switchover failover, we were not getting any technical issues. It's a pretty stable product."
"The web-based approach is the most valuable feature."
"A reduced infrastructure complexity and fast to rack and go."
"The solution is extremely stable. They've been phenomenal, especially for a young company."
"The Live Mount feature is excellent; it's useful for the backup administrator and end user."
"Rubrik has improved our organization by minimizing downtime."
"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."
"They have a great PowerShell module and easy mediums to speak to the people who create and enhance them."
"This solution can be complex and difficult to administer because it supports all of the many platforms, so it would help if they could simplify it."
"Support could improve and the initial configuration would be easier with assistance from a professional engineer."
"Commvault likes to be ahead of the game when it comes to merging with other platforms, but sometimes it's before they have the solution truly baked in. Office 365 is an example. I feel that my company might be a litmus test for their solution, because we have such a large environment. Some of the promised solutions that we received from Commvault were more like testing solutions. They weren't really validated, meaning they were possibilities. There have been a lot of hot fixes for the solution that we're using right now, more than we expected."
"I really struggled to configure HyperScale X as there was a lack of detailed documentation."
"The back of virtual machines needs improvement. I know they're working on it. They're always doing new things but I think they still have a little bit more to do."
"They can improve the VMware recovery and VMware backup. There is an improvement area on the VMware infrastructure. They can make available what they call a VSA proxy. They can have an appliance-type setup to deploy VSA backups and help recover quicker. They can have an appliance ready. Instead of having to have a server dedicated to that and installing software on a server, they can just provide an actual appliance for that."
"Sometimes, we have a performance issue with the backup speed. So, that has to be rectified and improved."
"The new HTML5-based management portals are very nice, but do not yet have all of the features of the Java-based client."
"I think it would be great to have a graphical interface assistant (like DBCA, ASMCA, NETCA, etc.) for initial configuration, monitoring, configuring Oracle Data Guard Broker and all the Data Guard Broker commands, without needing Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control installed."
"The predominant issue lies in the communication link between the secondary and primary databases."
"When the data replicates into the standby database there is a possibility of having a microsecond amount of data loss. The data loss occurs when there is a network disconnection between the primary and secondary standby database located in the data centers or if there is a crash in the primary database."
"It is a very useful administrative IT tool. It saves on costs."
"One thing that can be improved is the GUI. It would be good to have a very nice GUI to easily configure and administer, providing different presentations to the database administrator. The feature that can be included is the integration with third-party monitoring systems, that is, monitoring systems from other vendors, not only from Oracle."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The product could improve its pricing."
"The implementation is complex for anyone who's jumping into it without any experience. It's all command-line driven implementations. For some, that's a turn-off."
"There are some corner cases where the Rubrik Connector (Agent) still doesn't work for our clients."
"The main pain points we experienced was the stability of the system. We received a lot of instability when we have upgraded from a certain version to a new version. The newer version was completely filled with bugs and we needed to purge the system every week until we update to a newer version that was available one year later. The stability of the code is the main problem, they need to make it better."
"I would like for unmanaged backups to be able to be saved in a separate policy."
"I would like to have a built-in index searching ability of files/system files within the Rubrik interface to determine if a file or item exists, rather than just recovering it, and then doing a search for the file afterwards."
"Capacity reports could definitely be improved. It's hard to determine what is using the space and why. For instance, you can see that some host is using 2 TB on the Rubrik node and the disk space on that host is 400 GBs. It's hard to explain how there can be 2 TBs of data on local storage when nothing has changed on the host for the past three days."
"Collecting logs in Rubrik is very difficult compared to other tools."
"The solution needs to be more secure and needs to better protect against ransomware."
"It does not offer image-level backups for Hyper-V 2012."