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."It's a very stable product, and we've never had any downtime with it."
"You can protect your data and keep it for long durations, without it spending too much time on the local disk."
"Reliability: It has never had a problem with backups or restores. If you store something, it is there."
"Once setup, you do not need to touch it again. You just need to do a formal check on possibly batch updates."
"The deduplication and compression features are the most valuable features."
"It scales well for the amount of clients that we use with it."
"We can use it with any storage for the back-end to save data."
"It's very robust and has been on the market for a long time."
"There is a single vendor with the hardware, software, and maintenance. Thus, there is a single vendor with whom we can contact."
"One beneficial feature is that the solution can handle complex environments."
"It's a good product based on the features. You can upgrade the solution with only one click."
"For me, the most valuable feature is in relation to the software updates."
"The scalability of VxRail is very good."
"The simplicity and manageability of VxRail are most valuable. We have a very good experience with this product. Its stability and scalability are also very good."
"The initial setup was not complex."
"Homogeneity is most valuable. The truth is that having everything in a single cluster helps a lot."
"We would like to see capabilities of long-term archiving and more support for hardware platforms."
"Their support is lacking. I've talked to their developers and stuff in the last couple of weeks and they reassure me that some people have retired, and they're working on getting that bumped back up. But the support lacks a lot to be desired at this point."
"The solution's ability to integrate with a cloud solution is one area that needs improvement."
"Most customers still struggle with the reporting piece, especially generating reports. I think it needs some improvements in this area."
"Easier configuration of some of the products, e.g., VE comes to mind."
"If you take Spectrum Protect into account, and you have it along with restrictions to Spectrum Archive by means of LTFS, this is also something which should be made better within the overall product's program."
"In a future release, it would be a benefit to have the ability to add an application as a storage target, as a storage pool. Additionally, they should add more functionality to the administration for the Operation Center."
"It lacks reporting and an efficient alert mechanism. The GUI could also be improved."
"I would like to see integration with vCenter if possible."
"It needs faster deployment of security patches."
"Pricing could be improved."
"Some of the features of the hyperconverged infrastructure could be integrated with external storage. Right now, for example, if I have surveillance going, I need to purchase very cheap storage. So, an integration between the hyperconverged infrastructure and external storage would be good."
"I can't speak to any missing features or weak aspects of the system just yet. We haven't had a chance to really dig in."
"If they continue developing their product regarding VMware, it will be one of the best products in the HCI space. In terms of additional features, there is nothing missing because, for data protection, they also have the CDP option for VM. They can protect the VM at any point in time."
"We have issues at times with the one-click upgrade, which is bugging us. At times, the one-click upgrade does not work or does not work well."
"VxRail should try to improve the pricing."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 120 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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