We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and Rubrik based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Nutanix, Dell Technologies, VMware and others in HCI."The fact that the solution is vendor-agnostic allows it to be used with any virtualization vendor while remaining a powerful abstraction over storage."
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"Performance-wise, everything is good. So far, we haven't had any issues. There has been no downtime at all."
"I find the usability very valuable."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The price of the solution is good, especially when it comes to complex network solutions, such as UCS and Connect."
"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 most valuable feature has been the Live Mount feature."
"Takes me 80 percent less time to manage my backup environment."
"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."
"What I like about Rubrik is that you can back up to the cloud. It is a different kind of backup where you're not archiving the tape. Rubrik is a physical appliance. It is a dedicated appliance to which you can back up, and you can also back up to another device. So, you can back up to Rubrik and then to another device. If you have more than one site, you can set up Rubrik on site A and also on site B. You can back up to the Rubrik on site A and then replicate that data to the Rubrik on site B."
"I would rate the solution's web interface at eight out of ten. It's just fantastic and intuitive. It's so easy to use. I've never done any formal training on Rubrik, but I was able to quickly come to grips with its capabilities."
"Rubrik, when compared to Cohesity, Dell, and Veritas, was the best of the four."
"The most valuable feature is the Instant Recovery, where we can restore a VM or SQL database or any server or application, and have it up and running on their appliance within a few seconds."
"A central management console may be nice to see all nodes."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"I'd prefer it if a remote console was provided."
"You have to get the same servers with the same storage; they need to be identical. However, in vSAN or in VMware we don't have to do that. We can just add storage and manage it in the same server."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"I have been receiving a memory overflow message every day when I use the solution."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series could improve by having the documents be more readily available and the support could be more flexible."
"The utilization needs to be better. It needs more options."
"Lacks easy integration with other vendors."
"The solution could improve by having more customization."
"The initial setup can be a bit complex."
"It would be nice if they could work on the pricing a bit."
"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."
"It is a lot more expensive than other solutions, but you get what you pay for."
"If there was something that we could get Rubrik to fix, it would be when our DBS takes snapshots of a server or the database, the replication doesn't kick off fast enough. They can't remote it to the peer site and manipulate it back up in order to move it over, take a copy of production, slap it over, and test it out. As I understand, they are working on it. Replication works. We also get spoiled by how good things are now. We get to a point where it is so easy but when something isn't instant gratification, it seems that everything else is so amazing, why isn't this right?"
"There could be better reporting and better filtering."
"The interface is still slightly clunky and has room for improvement. They do work with us whenever we mention anything that needs to be done or anything that we want. We find that bringing up the management interface is a little slow and not as intuitive as we would like, but it's been getting better as it evolves."
"We would like to be able to do granular restores directly from Exchange. Also, more granular management of VM backups would help."
"Could be improved from an analytics point of view."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is ranked 8th in HCI with 30 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 3rd in Backup and Recovery Software with 29 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is rated 7.8, while Rubrik is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series writes "High performance solution that makes it easy to efficiently manage VM resources". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Easy to use with an intuitive web interface, helpful support, good performance, and saves us time". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity and HPE Nimble Storage dHCI, whereas Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Complete Data Protection, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup.
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