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."The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"The price was right."
"The ProActive support gives me peace of mind because I am a one man shop, but with the technical support behind me, I feel like more than just one person. We spent two to three hours, depending on what we have to do, always on the phone, and they do not push to end the call."
"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"The product only requires two VMWare ESXi host servers versus three host servers for VMware's comparable solution."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"The price of the solution is good, especially when it comes to complex network solutions, such as UCS and Connect."
"I love the Cisco design, the visual interface to manage and use the platform."
"The product is stable. No one complains about the stability, which is fabulous."
"By configuring networks, we are saving power."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the connectivity, consistency, and that we now have fewer vulnerabilities on the network."
"The most valuable features of this solution are scalability, performance, and reliability. It scales well inside of a large data center."
"Performance-wise, everything is good. So far, we haven't had any issues. There has been no downtime at all."
"The technical support has been very good for this solution."
"Rubrik has brought all of our backups under a single pane of glass and made recovery extremely simple."
"I value the options it has for storage tiering (i.e. whether it should be a flash, SSD, or pushed to the cloud) depending on the data provided."
"Cut backup remediation to nearly nothing."
"Rubrik, when compared to Cohesity, Dell, and Veritas, was the best of the four."
"The feature that I found most valuable is Live Mount. You can either mount a virtual machine from a snapshot, or you can mount a volume from the snapshot. You can mount one disk to the server to retrieve data, or you can mount the whole VM, rename it, and use it as a test VM. If your VM gets corrupted, you just mount one from the snapshot, and you have your production VM's backup. So, Live Mount is definitely the best feature for me as an end-user."
"Instant recovery is a good feature."
"Rubrik has improved our organization by minimizing downtime."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"It should be improved in the way it detects the right filesystem image after a complete shutdown of the system or in the case of disaster recovery."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"In all areas the product could be made faster."
"I'd love to see native export of metrics (via Prometheus or something of that nature) to allow us to get more metrics available on our existing dashboard software."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"There is one issue as far as licensing goes and that is a lack of documentation online for users when transitioning from the free version to the paid version, or vice versa."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"The product does not have a cloud version...The product should be made more flexible in terms of integration capabilities."
"I would like for them to develop integration with other technologies, like SD Access. It's still lacking an enhancement management player."
"It needs more detailed documentation."
"I would like to see them expand onto the cloud."
"Some of our customers do not want to adopt the Cisco ACI solution. They want to manage Cisco HyperFlex by integrating it with their own management solution."
"It is quite new solution, so it is not very stable."
"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."
"There should be the opportunity to create more than one div group"
"We would like to be able to do granular restores directly from Exchange. Also, more granular management of VM backups would help."
"Better integration for complex NAS structures having to mount at root adds time and workload to the process of NDMP."
"It needs more storage array integration options and an easier restore for files that download using a browser."
"The integrated reporting is not really that nicely built. The reporting functionality could definitely be a little bit more customizable from an administration perspective, with an easier to understand interface."
"I would like to see the entire Office 365 product suite backed up by Rubrik. For instance, they do SharePoint and Exchange online, but they don't back up Microsoft Teams. So, I would like to see more of the Office 365 suite added into their backup capabilities."
"They need to find a solution for SMBs. It is currently only suitable for enterprises or big customers. They need to find a solution that suits SMBs."
"They have what's called an organization which means different groups of access to Rubrik, but the alerting only goes to the admins. My suggestion to Rubrik is to make sure that the separate organizations or groups of users get the appropriate alerting."
"It needs to keep innovating to stay relevant in the data management field."
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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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