We performed a comparison between Dell PowerFlex 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 is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"The solution is also quite flexible. As an example, other vSAN solutions that we looked at had more stringent requirements regarding mixed HDD/SSD storage which wouldn't have worked in our environment."
"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"The fact that I can now count on a true failover solution is what is most appealing."
"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."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"The support team responds quickly."
"The integration with AWS is a valuable feature."
"We're doing a lot of VMware for IT so this solution is really valuable from a VMH point of view. We're trying to assist our customers mainly with management, because that's what they want. The most important aspects are ease of management, as well as ease of configuration, allowing them to attach additional nodes and resources for the applications."
"We've had no issues with scaling the solution."
"It is easy to use for management and operations teams because the tools are in one place."
"The catalog of APIs for automation has been most valuable, although they are quite limited."
"The program is stable."
"The solution is scalable."
"Management is so simple that anyone can check the backups and do restores when necessary."
"The Auto-Snapshot SLA feature and recovery time are amazing. It took seven seconds to have a server back up and running in production from a total failure."
"The most valuable feature is the Instant Recovery, where we can restore a VM or SQL database or any server or application, and have it up and running on their appliance within a few seconds."
"Rubrik is stable and easy to use."
"Features we have requested are typically added to the next product release."
"I value the options it has for storage tiering (i.e. whether it should be a flash, SSD, or pushed to the cloud) depending on the data provided."
"CloudOut, because only blocks are pushed after compression and deduplication, not raw sizing."
"This is a centralized tool where we are able to schedule backups and perform monitoring."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"I'd prefer it if a remote console was provided."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"I struggled when bit figuring out how to go about doing the evaluation."
"The installation is complex."
"I am not really impressed by the technical support of this solution."
"We've had some issues around the licensing."
"We're also running Hyper-V virtual machines. But we recently discovered that migration of the Hyper-V virtual machines is a bit challenging. Maybe if Dell EMC can come out with a tool that will make it very easy for us to migrate the Microsoft Hyper-V machine, that may be an improvement."
"I think there might be some room for improvement when it comes to pricing, because although I know how to convert customers, at the end of day, it's quite expensive. Sometimes your feature architecture is still coming out much cheaper than hardware costs for your infrastructure."
"Needs some more monitoring tools."
"The solution must be more flexible."
"There should be more functionality available for routing."
"There is room for improvement in pricing. After the licensing, the price tends to go up as time goes by."
"With multiple Rubrik clusters setup in an environment, it becomes painfully obvious that this product needs a central management console."
"The recovery of Oracle databases is too complicated. It is not something that helps the DBA, the Database Administrator, but it should be done by the backup person like many other solutions. Everything is ready for the DBA to recover the database. It is a way of doing things, but I don't think you should give the backup people the ability to do it."
"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."
"The Office 365 protection could be improved."
"Needs integration with video CD (coming in the next release) and a multi-tenant GUI."
"I have a personal want which might not necessarily make sense with Rubrik as a company or Rubrik as a software, but it'd be really nice if they could also handle things like item-level backups and restores of Active Directory objects and DNS and DCP objects."
"It is an expensive product."
Dell PowerFlex is ranked 10th in HCI with 19 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 82 reviews. Dell PowerFlex is rated 8.2, while Rubrik is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Dell PowerFlex writes "Infrastructure management solution that offers rapid provisioning of computer storage but the APIs and enablers for custom automation could be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Easy to use with minimal training required, innovative, good support". Dell PowerFlex is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series, whereas Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Zerto and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain).
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