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 very robust and has been on the market for a long time."
"The amount of data that it protects with very little storage by doing incremental forever is one of its most valuable features."
"SPIR is Instant Recovery for Spectrum Protect. It sends snapshots using space efficiently and blocking backups to the Spectrum Protect server. It provisions the snapshot from the backup server to the same or new server near instantly."
"It has to ability to backup DV2, Oracle, and Informix."
"We are talking about a stable solution which boasts good performance and security."
"One of the main things that I like about IBM is the versioning of the data - meaning that we can have multiple versions of a file or directory of a server."
"Every time we go and try to get a file, we can get it. Restores are quick and the data is always there."
"The solution is really scalable."
"The compute is good and we have not had any issues with the vSAN."
"My customers use it for VDI. It has been very usable and very fast to use with VDI. On the VxRail side also, it has been very fast."
"VxRail's feature that we found most valuable was its really good performance. That was one of VxRail's advantages."
"VxRail is easy to deploy and easy to scale up."
"The solution is really stable."
"VxRail has given us a lot of tools in a one-stop-shop environment."
"Our clients value being able to upgrade with one click or a few clicks."
"With VxRail, we can manage the life cycle of a virtual machine."
"I find the solution somewhat difficult to use with virtual environments or VMware."
"Perhaps some better documentation, which I believe was better in the past."
"I would like a little more ease with the virtual platforms, because it is a huge thing that is coming up."
"We are still using TSM Manager for many of our projects to administer our platform because the gap was not resolved with the new Operations Center."
"Replication of data could be more user friendly."
"Replication services would be nice. If these could be enhanced to be always on so multiple storage backup services could be added as a cluster pool. This would provide a better availability service."
"The user interface (UI) for the admin is still not good. It is way too complicated to manage the product, as we still need to use command line. IBM launched the Operations Center (OC), but there are still functions lacking, especially since we cannot manage all our scheduled tasks by using the GUI."
"The initial setup is complex."
"VxRail could be easier to set up. It's tricky to configure the network properly and match the requirements."
"I would like to have a unified platform where I, for example, can manage my 50 stores from a single portal in VxRail and be able to apply all the updates at once. I want to unify them into a centralized console."
"What I did not like so much was the amount of VMware that you have to put in your system related to the VxRail."
"The initial setup between the different Dell departments is fragmented. The engineers who come to rack/stack and do the initial config should be trained on all the areas and work with the different Dell departments whilst they are onsite to give a smoother install and better experience for customer."
"This solution needs to have the capability where even older versions of hardware can be seamlessly utilized and additional expansion becomes so much easier."
"The support charges for VxRail should be optimized and made cheaper."
"The configurations of VxRail can be difficult. However, it has improved in the newer version. From version 6 to 7, there has been a lot of changes."
"There is a limitation on the number of nodes."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 121 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, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Rubrik, whereas VxRail is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and HPE Hyper Converged.
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