We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and Rubrik based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"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 ROI is great on this product."
"It has great free trials that allow end users to test a large variety of their products before deciding to buy the full product."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"It is helpful as a backup solution."
"Stretch cluster allows us to warranty a service for the customer."
"You can administer things easily. E.g., if you need more power, you can add a system."
"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."
"The automation is a valuable feature, it's interesting."
"When we use it for VDI solutions, it is very easy to deploy and support."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is its performance."
"It allows us to authorize our residents to come in using their own personal devices to access any of our clinical applications and ensure that the PHI is secure and protected."
"The solution is extremely stable. They've been phenomenal, especially for a young company."
"Its reporting is most valuable. I like how it reports that everything is successfully backed up. It provides a summarized report that I can give to auditors and management."
"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."
"The product's most valuable feature is the immutability of a backup."
"It has a streamlined user interface, provides an improved tech support experience, and reduces time required to locate and restore data."
"Replaces legacy tapes and disk backups which are unreliable, expensive and space consuming."
"The most valuable feature of Rubrik for me is its user-friendliness and efficiency."
"The most valuable features of Rubrik are the restoration and ease of use."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"If there was one feature I would like to see it would be a built-in subsystem for managing UPS backups shutdown procedures providing a way to initiate VM shutdown on all host servers, shut down the host servers, then put the fault-tolerant mirroring in standby, and finally shut down the StarWind SANs."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"It would have been nice if the product provided some cloud integrations."
"Cisco has to continue improve the management tools to provide a better command line interface with more functions. That would be better for administration."
"They should have more blade options and more configuration flexibility. Also, the price is expensive. It should be cheaper but it is worth the price."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"If we compare it with VMware, the VMware product is basically very open, and it can be easily integrated with any platform. VMware product is also available on the cloud and is not an appliance-based product, whereas Cisco HyperFlex is an appliance-based product. Companies that want to use HCI as a platform or as a service would prefer something without an appliance. A SaaS-based product is better for a customer who is using the cloud and has multiple resources, workflows, and devices on the cloud and wants to go for a hyper-converged solution. This is where improvement is needed. In addition to an appliance-based product, Cisco should provide a SaaS-based product. Its price should be lower. Cisco needs to work on the pricing model for this product. Its price is a big road blocker when competing against Nutanix and VMware, which are its main competitors."
"With the cache disk fails in Cisco, the whole node fails, and the workload goes down."
"We would like to have the ability to not have to reboot while doing updates. Being able to work through updates with as minimal amount of impact to users."
"The initial setup of profiles and templates could be improved. Maybe some end profiles that you can use based on your type of deployment would be good."
"Rubrik is expensive."
"I would like to see Rubrik better integrate with Microsoft Active Directory. Instead of just backing up a full domain controller, I would like the solution to have Active Directory object knowledge so we can restore specific objects in Active Directory versus restoring the whole domain controller."
"It needs more storage array integration options and an easier restore for files that download using a browser."
"They should give more access to the backend capabilities. From a customer point of view, you do not have access to all the features on the system. You have to engage their support to perform some of the tasks. It would be helpful for an experienced engineer to be able to go and do some of those tasks prior to contacting the support."
"There could be better reporting and better filtering."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in pricing. After the licensing, the price tends to go up as time goes by."
"It would be nice if they could work on the pricing a bit."
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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 86 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 "Automates the backup and recovery process, reducing manual human errors and global search allows for granular recoveries". 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, Azure Backup and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain).
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