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."The feature we have found most valuable is when you want to integrate it with a Tape Library and then do the DRM life cycle. That is when it works the best."
"The ability to use S3 Data Store as a repository."
"It's a very stable product, and we've never had any downtime with it."
"Traditional storage works perfectly with it."
"It helps our customers protect their data, especially with stuff like ransomware, compliance, and regulatory requirements."
"It integrates well with Spectrum Scale."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the centralized enterprise backup."
"In the past, one of the most valuable features, and the biggest advantage, was the incremental forever feature. Not many other backup vendors provided that. In the pre-virtualization environment, it was very robust and simple technology, especially writing to tape."
"It is truly a hyper-converged infrastructure, so everything is there together."
"Management of the hardware and software in one console is the most valuable feature. It's also compatible with vSAN."
"The stability of VxRail is good, we have not had any issues."
"The most valuable feature in the VxRail solution is the software that binds the management portal and its ease of use of managing the environment. The guys don't have to worry about getting multiple solutions specialist. You can have one person looking at and managing the whole environment."
"VxRail is easy to deploy and easy to scale up."
"Valuable features for us are the VDI, UCC, and HCI."
"This is a good solution if you want to deploy an ACI Environment but don't have all the necessary resources."
"When we have a resource contention, we can easily increase the capacity."
"It doesn't integrate with storage pools, with a normal pool. I'd like to see that."
"Although I am not a technical user, I would say the cloud integration features could be improved."
"It does what we need it to do, but it could be better with VM backups. It could be better integrated with virtual machines or VM backups, but that's why they have their Plus out now. Plus version is more geared toward VM backups. The regular version is more for endpoint clients."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"There have been some sizing issues now, and we are dealing with those."
"This solution does not have good support for virtualization and a hyper-converged environment."
"Customers have migrated off of it because of its lack of virtual environment functions."
"We are not so happy with the technical support because dealing with them is not easy. We have a very complicated environment, therefore I understand for a support person that it is not easy to troubleshoot it."
"It can be a bit complex for engineers who are new to it. There's a learning curve involved. They have to learn to operate it."
"If they can provide deduplication compression through the traditional hard drives, as Cisco does in the HyperFlex system, it will be very cost-effective, especially when it comes to archiving workload. VxRail doesn't allow the mixing of old flash clusters and hyper clusters. When I'm starting with an old flash cluster and it comes to archiving workload, I will also need to attend the new cluster. So, I either manage two different clusters, or I pay and upload my work with the archiving mobile hard drive, which is not cost-effective at all. The main key is to allow mixing between two types of clustering, like Nutanix, or allow deduplication of completion over the period of shared hard drive on SAV. It will be much better."
"One challenge customers face with VxRail is the high cost of scalability. The price is higher if they want to add memory or capacity after purchasing the tool for three or five years. Each drive and RAM module is licensed separately, making the architecture costly. It would benefit Dell to review this licensing model and make it more cost-effective and flexible for customers."
"It should not be deployed on one hypervisor. There should be multiple hypervisors supported like Hyper-V or KVM."
"VxRail could be easier to set up. It's tricky to configure the network properly and match the requirements."
"Supply chain capabilities are certainly hurting us. We're in the process of placing a large order for more VxRail nodes right now."
"The solution could improve by having more storage performance because in some other solutions you can have a file system that can be mounted at several places at one time."
"This solution needs to have the capability where even older versions of hardware can be seamlessly utilized and additional expansion becomes so much easier."
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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