We performed a comparison between Rubrik 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."Rubrik has led to improvement by reducing the amount of failed backups, leading to a reduced workload in IT operations."
"The solution is extremely stable. They've been phenomenal, especially for a young company."
"The most valuable feature of Rubrik for me is its user-friendliness and efficiency."
"The most valuable feature is the archive to cloud location and the automation around the PowerShell script. There are also reports and dashboards."
"What I like about Rubrik is that you can back up to the cloud. It is a different kind of backup where you're not archiving the tape. Rubrik is a physical appliance. It is a dedicated appliance to which you can back up, and you can also back up to another device. So, you can back up to Rubrik and then to another device. If you have more than one site, you can set up Rubrik on site A and also on site B. You can back up to the Rubrik on site A and then replicate that data to the Rubrik on site B."
"Mounting recent backups to create new servers rather than cloning servers in VMware drastically cut down required time."
"One platform for instant recovery."
"Rubrik is an easy and automatic solution that needs no manual intervention."
"It's a turnkey solution, which is good for customers, because they are buying into stability."
"I can roll out the system in thirty minutes and the customer can work with it."
"It's a simple product, fast, and reliable."
"Depending on your architecture type, it's simple to manage and implement VxRail compared to other solutions. That's why most of our customers use it."
"The most valuable feature is that it is VMware-embedded. VxRail HCI is on VMware, and we can use VMware vCenter and vSphere. Our infrastructure consists of servers and VMware, and by using VxRail, our experience and familiarity have not changed because VxRail HCI is on VMware."
"We deploy VxRail systems to provide our customers with a distributed information solution. The customer was impressed because we delivered a serious data reduction. For example, we showed them that 10 terabytes on their traditional storage solution could be reduced to 1.5 terabytes in the VxRail systems. That's why the customers also like it so much,"
"The stability continues to get better and better. It's pretty reliable."
"It is scalable. When you are buying it, you have to buy a minimum of three nodes. After that, if you want to add more nodes, you can buy can buy them. You can also add-on additional compute and storage."
"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."
"It is a lot more expensive than other solutions, but you get what you pay for."
"The deployment and configuration of the backup service is something that could be streamlined a little bit, particularly when you're trying to do a SQL workload. You have to install a backup service on the server. You only have to do it once and then you're done, but you have to do that on every server that you want to protect."
"I hope to see enhancements in areas like data governance and the incorporation of new features in future updates."
"With Windows, it is difficult to configure Oracle Database."
"Global management of multiple systems is lacking, as is reporting across multiple installed units."
"They support Hyper-V and it works with our CloudOut, the cloud DR, but they seem to add features for VMware first and Hyper-V gets added second or sometimes several releases after the VMware feature comes out."
"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."
"The licensing needs to be improved upon."
"Integration could be improved."
"The tool needs to improve its price."
"The licensing costs are too expensive. They should work on their pricing model."
"My customers want more storage for university databases."
"The solution is okay to scale vertically but a bit difficult to expend horizontally. For example, increasing RAM."
"It's not really flexible with different use cases."
Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 83 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 120 reviews. Rubrik is rated 9.2, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Easy to use with minimal training required, innovative, good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Zerto 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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