We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and Rubrik based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."When using new (warranty) servers, you can forget about the storage service for several years. The users will not even notice the failure of two servers out of three."
"The StarWind tech support is extremely helpful, especially during the initial setup."
"Ten gigabit Ethernet compatibility, support, ease of use, and management are some positive features."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"The failover protection and the ability to expand storage and nodes with no downtime are by far the best physical features we have benefited from."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"The ROI is great on this product."
"The most valuable feature is that it is something small that can be more easily deployed than a full data center set of servers."
"The most important benefits that we've seen from this solution is that it reduces the cost of management and it has easy monitoring systems."
"Easily facilitates remote work opportunities with storage and compute resources."
"It's very easy to use and quite a mature product."
"Cisco offers very good quality."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Cisco provides the ability to configure BIOS, something that no one else can do, on a remote basis. That's really helpful sometimes. The bus-snooping alteration tool for BIOS is fantastic. That's one of the game-changing features that Cisco alone has at this point."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX has improved the way our organization functions in the way that the time to deliver a VM takes me five minutes. In comparison, my cloud team's response is a couple of days based on all their overhead policies, procedures, and ticket requests. This is substantial."
"Replaces legacy tapes and disk backups which are unreliable, expensive and space consuming."
"They have a great PowerShell module and easy mediums to speak to the people who create and enhance them."
"The ease of use and innovation are the features that stand out for us."
"The security and the ransomware protection are most valuable."
"The web-based approach is the most valuable feature."
"The feature that I have found most valuable from Rubrik is its protection against ransomware attacks. Rubrik is a very nice, very good solution because it is able to protect your data and you have the possibility from the backup to detect any abnormal behavior, like a ransomware attack. You are able to detect and restore very easily with this solution. This is a major differentiator in comparison to the other competitors."
"The management and ease of installation are the most valuable features."
"The archiving, off-of-box, is awesome. It lets you put your data where you want it and gives you the peace of mind of having more than one copy of it. And it's smart about the way that it does the archiving. It doesn't just copy one-for-one. It does all of its processing of the deduplication and compression before it sends it off to the archive, which helps with our cloud costs."
"I would like to see more monitoring and alert tools."
"The main issue we ran into was the documentation. We attempted to set up the product in our test environment by ourselves and ran into several areas of the documentation that were unclear to us."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"While it is possible to implement disk encryption in StarWind using Windows Bitlocker, such a solution can be a little tricky to manage."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"Their technical support is very bad. We had an issue where instead of an engineer we got a PDF "doctor" that didn't know anything about our problem which was very frustrating."
"The documentation could be substantially better, but the product itself does everything it needs to do."
"HyperFlex could be improved by reducing the minimum number of nodes supported from three to two."
"I would like it to be easier to manage the server, create VMs, and manage the VMs on the client."
"The initial setup is very complex because there were some issues. It is not clear to how set up this solution."
"Cisco is quite expensive but not in the initial first buy."
"There is a VMware plugin for HyperFlex, which sometimes it hangs up in our environment, and doesn't function well."
"This solution is lacking in replication and backup abilities that I would like to see in a future release similar to HPE SimpliVity."
"It is a lot more expensive than other solutions, but you get what you pay for."
"Troubleshooting failed backups is difficult, and deciphering the logs without the help of support is usually almost impossible."
"There are some features to improve on in Rubrik. For instance, they should have a tool where we can integrate with our SAP HANA. Directly from the HANA studio, we should be able to do a backup. That's what I'm looking forward to in the future."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in pricing. After the licensing, the price tends to go up as time goes by."
"The functionality is missing, but they are very receptive to our thoughts and ideas."
"It is already very well furnished, but live mounts for Nutanix AHV would be amazing."
"Pricing is something that needs to be considered for improvement."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 90 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 83 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Rubrik is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] 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 [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE SimpliVity, whereas Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Zerto and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain).
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