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"What I like the most about Rubrik is its user-friendly interface."
"We had some VMware issue as VMware did some changes on the AHCI drivers. Rubrik saved our environment those times."
"We have a great success rate for backups with Rubrik and because of the ease of automating tasks, we also run periodical restores to check the quality of the backups."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The feature that I have found most valuable from Rubrik is its protection against ransomware attacks. Rubrik is a very nice, very good solution because it is able to protect your data and you have the possibility from the backup to detect any abnormal behavior, like a ransomware attack. You are able to detect and restore very easily with this solution. This is a major differentiator in comparison to the other competitors."
"The search functionality is second to none as the speed of the search is fast across the whole system and predictive."
"The Auto-Snapshot SLA feature and recovery time are amazing. It took seven seconds to have a server back up and running in production from a total failure."
"The live mounting and compatibility of different operating systems is great."
"The migration of servers feature makes server rack maintenance easy."
"It easily integrates with all types of storage."
"The scalability of the solution is most valuable."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is that it is stable."
"The feature we have found most valuable is the compatibility of VMware products with VCF and VMware Cloud Foundation."
"vSAN can help customers save on storage system costs, and also save on the human cost."
"We don't have to order a storage system, we can just use whatever we have on hand and roll it into our virtualization system."
"User interface could be improved."
"The product’s user interface needs improvement."
"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."
"The only thing that can be improved is catering for open source databases because at the moment it doesn't cater for Mongo, MySQL, and Postgres."
"The reporting, in particular the customization of reports, needs to be improved."
"Rubrik's disaster recovery capabilities could be improved."
"The Polaris piece could use improvement. When you get a report and you have events that are suspicious, you cannot drill down and find out why it's suspicious. You only know it's suspicious, but you don't know the root cause. Other than that, everything works well."
"It is a lot more expensive than other solutions, but you get what you pay for."
"In a future release, they can bring in the object storage capabilities to this solution. Currently, there is not any compatibility."
"The product can be improved in a couple of ways. One of those would be that they have a lot of hidden features, that are through the CLI, that would be great to have in the GUI, or just be more open about those features. It's something called RVC. It's a tool in the back end. It's a really great tool, but I had to find it through Reddit. So more information on stuff like that would be great. Also, in the user interface, giving us more features and more reporting that we can do from vSphere itself would be helpful."
"Based on my testing, I would like to expand deduplication to include hybrid deployments and not just for all-flash deployments."
"If we have some complicated issues, you have to use the command lines interface. Not everything is possible to be fixed in the GUI. This is a drawback, that some things have to be fixed via command-line interface and should be able to be done in the GUI."
"There is room for improvement in vSAN's ability to debug. When it's not working well, debugging becomes quite challenging. Identifying issues when it's lagging or not functioning properly can be difficult."
"The price for the hard drive, for vSAN, is very expensive."
"As a software-based product, it requires a lot of system resources."
"It would be much improved if we could somehow integrate a better backup with it. Right now, we're using Veeam and it's okay, but I would like more of a VDP vSAN solution. That would be excellent. The VDP, at least the last time we looked at, it was just not quite there."
Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 83 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 227 reviews. Rubrik is rated 9.2, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Easy to use with minimal training required, innovative, good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Zerto and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell PowerFlex.
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