We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and Rubrik based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere is a software-defined storage solution that has reduced administration time for storage. It's pretty straightforward to install and setup it and so far it has been robust and worked as advertised from StarWind."
"With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS\SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage."
"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."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"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."
"It's quite easy to install."
"Overall, the solution is extremely easy, flexible and secure."
"It is very scalable. It is also very secure. Cisco's security portfolio is integrated with it, which makes it secure. It is a platform-based device. Its performance is also fairly good in comparison to any other solution."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the connectivity, consistency, and that we now have fewer vulnerabilities on the network."
"We used to have a single customer-facing data center, which was vulnerable to failure. This product has allowed us to create high availability between two private data centers."
"The feature that we are most interested in is the scalability. When needed, we are able to add more nodes and scale it up further."
"Offers very good data protection and provides system uptime availability effectively."
"It is a solution that best suits thre needs of our organization."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX has improved the way our organization functions on the storage side by having one big storage space for hosting VMs. We do not have to provision other ones. That's a positive aspect of it."
"The main benefit is that we are secured in terms of workloads. We know that if we need to restore any VMs, or even any files inside a VM, that we will succeed 100 percent. This means that we don't need to spend much time administering the backup environment because we know it is self-healing and efficient. So, we are spending that time on something else, which is always a plus."
"It has a good interface which is simple to navigate and utilize."
"Rubrik is a very scalable and high-performing backup restore solution."
"Rubrik has brought all of our backups under a single pane of glass and made recovery extremely simple."
"The most valuable feature is the archive to cloud location and the automation around the PowerShell script. There are also reports and dashboards."
"The feature that I found most valuable is Live Mount. You can either mount a virtual machine from a snapshot, or you can mount a volume from the snapshot. You can mount one disk to the server to retrieve data, or you can mount the whole VM, rename it, and use it as a test VM. If your VM gets corrupted, you just mount one from the snapshot, and you have your production VM's backup. So, Live Mount is definitely the best feature for me as an end-user."
"Also, the web interface is really great. The design, from a user-experience standpoint, is really straightforward and easy to use... they nailed it. Usually, from the very first panel, the dashboard that you land on after login, you've got most of your functionality right around where you need it to be. You've got your new items on the left, you've got your support on the top right. Nothing really seems out of place or just stuck in someplace."
"Not having to specify a time to run a backup with a fixed schedule is something that's really beneficial. In the past we had to schedule and try to manually stagger things over the window, to back up everything. Because Rubrik is SLA-based, you say, "Well, I need it to fit in this window here," and it just backs it up when it's most convenient for the Brik and for the third-party system. It looks at the CPU usage and says, "Okay, it's not as busy now. I know I've got time to take the backup." That's a real advantage."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"StarWind Virtual SAN architecture is slightly complex and requires the team to carefully identify and study how the solution integrates with VMware vSphere."
"Cisco should combine its features with its prices."
"The product does not have a cloud version...The product should be made more flexible in terms of integration capabilities."
"Cisco HyperFlex should decrease the amount of memory needed from the Controller VM that controls the physical discs. They control the discs by using the virtual VM over every ESXi host and the VM consumes memory and consumes more hardware resources. They have to improve that by decreasing the amount of required memory and CPUs to control this disc on the server."
"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 HyperFlex to connect the storage directly into Fabric Interconnect along with the features of the solution. We have enough ports in HyperFlex. We don't want to buy another set of switches to connect to Fabric Interconnect, complicating the solution."
"There is a VMware plugin for HyperFlex, which sometimes it hangs up in our environment, and doesn't function well."
"We had a bit of complexity to think about how to migrate our legacy infrastructure into Cisco HyperFlex."
"One aspect that really needs to be looked at, is to fix the bugs issue."
"It would be nice if they could work on the pricing a bit."
"We would like to be able to do granular restores directly from Exchange. Also, more granular management of VM backups would help."
"If I could take a snapshot from a physical and be able to stand it up as a virtual immediately without the need to rebuild an entire system and restoring files, that would be HUGE."
"Troubleshooting failed backups is difficult, and deciphering the logs without the help of support is usually almost impossible."
"Needs integration with video CD (coming in the next release) and a multi-tenant GUI."
"Rubrik's disaster recovery capabilities could be improved."
"Collecting logs in Rubrik is very difficult compared to other tools."
"I hope to see enhancements in areas like data governance and the incorporation of new features in future updates."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is ranked 8th in HCI with 90 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 82 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is rated 8.0, while Rubrik is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series 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 is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure, whereas Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Zerto.
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