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."It has great free trials that allow end users to test a large variety of their products before deciding to buy the full product."
"The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"The virtual tapes can be uploaded to the object storage of your choice with object locking/governance which gives you an extra layer of protection."
"This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"You can administer things easily. E.g., if you need more power, you can add a system."
"The possibility to share the workload is one of its most valuable features. We have many applications which have need of workloads only a few times in a month, so we share HyperFlex with them."
"It's very easy to integrate with the ACI network."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX has improved the way our organization functions in the way that the time to deliver a VM takes me five minutes. In comparison, my cloud team's response is a couple of days based on all their overhead policies, procedures, and ticket requests. This is substantial."
"The compute storage and virtualization come all in one box."
"The software defines networking, storage, and processing."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature is that it is something small that can be more easily deployed than a full data center set of servers."
"I haven't encountered any bugs or glitches using the solution."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Rubrik has brought all of our backups under a single pane of glass and made recovery extremely simple."
"This is a centralized tool where we are able to schedule backups and perform monitoring."
"One platform for instant recovery."
"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."
"There is a live-restore feature, their Live Mount, and the way it works we can instantly recover a VM, a past backup, to be directly attached to our VMware environment. Rubrik will act as a disk for it. It's like an instant restore. Within a few minutes our VM is up and running. And then, if we want to restore it, we can just migrate it to our actual storage."
"Rubrik simplifies our data backup and recovery processes significantly. It's very straightforward to use. We start by tagging through VMware, and everything tagged for Rubrik is backed up automatically. Backups are much better and faster because Rubrik takes a full snapshot of the virtual machine. We recently conducted a verification by performing a restore, and even during the restore process, we could bring up the server in less than 10-15 minutes. Additionally, we have set up alerts for sensitive data, which helps us track data."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"An extended trial period would serve as a way to get clean insights into the technology's adaptability and alignment with their specific needs before committing to long-term integration."
"While we had no problems setting the system up, and service technicians from StarWind could assist us very well, they could provide some form of in-depth documentation."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was 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."
"It needs more detailed documentation."
"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."
"I haven't been too impressed with the Cisco HyperFlex HX, honestly. It's a hard concept."
"The initial setup can be a bit complex."
"Their technical support is very bad. We had an issue where instead of an engineer we got a PDF "doctor" that didn't know anything about our problem which was very frustrating."
"A stretch function is really needed. Germans think that because of the high availability and the security that two data centers are better but we want edge all in one cluster. This is a needed feature, the cluster feature, and we'd also like to see a possibility for ROBO offices."
"The storage layer seems to be a little better on the VMware than on HyperFlex side."
"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."
"Rubrik needs to continue to listen to their customers and what they want/need, not just care about money and the bottom line."
"Rubrik can only leverage cloud storage for archiving and has no cloud failover."
"I hope to see enhancements in areas like data governance and the incorporation of new features in future updates."
"Capacity reports could definitely be improved. It's hard to determine what is using the space and why. For instance, you can see that some host is using 2 TB on the Rubrik node and the disk space on that host is 400 GBs. It's hard to explain how there can be 2 TBs of data on local storage when nothing has changed on the host for the past three days."
"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."
"I have a personal want which might not necessarily make sense with Rubrik as a company or Rubrik as a software, but it'd be really nice if they could also handle things like item-level backups and restores of Active Directory objects and DNS and DCP objects."
"The product’s user interface needs improvement."
"Setup is immediate but pricing is not cheap."
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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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