We performed a comparison between Rubrik and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."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."
"Adaptative backup and SLAs simply allow you to tell a machine to backup without taking care of the backup window."
"We do like the instant recovery... Now, we say, "Okay, give me 15 seconds and I can get this back up for you." And within that 15 seconds it's on and the only thing that we have to do afterwards is vMotion it off of the Rubrik storage back to where it should rest."
"The search functionality is second to none as the speed of the search is fast across the whole system and predictive."
"Rubrik has improved our organization by minimizing downtime."
"The most valuable feature is the archive to cloud location and the automation around the PowerShell script. There are also reports and dashboards."
"The web interface is user-friendly, clean, and it provides a good summary of what you're protecting at a glance."
"What I like about Rubrik is its strong focus on security, particularly in combating ransomware threats."
"vSAN is one of the easiest implementations of any VMware product. It's almost like click it to enable it, then you're almost done."
"I have found the solution to be scalable."
"The installation is very easy."
"The solution has high performance."
"The features of vSAN allow us to reduce our operational complexity to a large degree."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"I have found that the multi-homing feature is very valuable in VMware vSAN. It is an easy-to-use solution."
"The most important feature to me, in my role, is cost. In the renewal cycle for storage, it was about a 40 percent saving compared to going to an all-flash array, which is what we first looked at doing. Secondly, performance: we need clinical data access in five seconds and need to do everything we can to retain that metric. Thirdly, I was really pleasantly surprised during the data migration across to vSAN, that it happened almost instantly whereas, in the past, migrating from array to array was an arduous and fraught process."
"The solution could improve by having fewer VM Stuns."
"Needs integration with video CD (coming in the next release) and a multi-tenant GUI."
"When errors do occur, it can be a somewhat painful process to get to the bottom of issues."
"It needs to support more applications natively, like MySQL/MariaDB."
"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 through a further extension of their Office 365 backup platform. In addition, it's still a bit cost-prohibitive to backup NAS. Those would be the two primary areas for improvement."
"User interface could be improved."
"I don't like Rubrik's user interface because it's not intuitive, and I find it hard to get the information I need."
"This is quite an expensive solution."
"Dedupe in non flash drives can be improved."
"It could have some automation. We haven't involved ourselves in a lot of automation around the vSAN environment capabilities. We're still running it using a very traditional setup. So, there could be some plugins to automate it using third-party environments, such as Jenkins."
"If the support could be provided more quickly, it would be very helpful."
"The biggest room for improvement I see in vSAN is the lack of SAN connectivity. I've kind of joked around that there is no "SAN" in vSAN. And it's something that we've worked to try and introduce some options for, and we're going to continue to work towards that."
"The updating process could be easier."
"We would like to see even more storage capacity."
"Virtual machines disk size cannot cap more than a single node. For a VDI user, it may not save enough to hold a file server or exchange server on a single node storage space."
Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 82 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 226 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 Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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