We performed a comparison between NetApp SnapCenter, Rubrik, and Veritas Backup Exec based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."The initial setup was straightforward."
"It has greatly improved our DR activity."
"The way that it interconnects with VMware is really handy, because you can go right into your vSphere client, where you spend a lot of the day anyway, right-click on one of the VMs where you have backups running for however long, and you can restore either some files or restore the entire thing."
"It's very helpful because SnapCenter is already integrated with VMware Snapshot, so it's very easy to use."
"The backup process finishes very quickly."
"Restoring and cloning are easy to do."
"Technical support has been very helpful when we have issues."
"Being able to add everything in as resource groups is a valuable feature... Having all the SQL servers put into specific buckets, based on their year of release - 2008, 2012, 2014 - allows us to get almost immediate backups that are easily seen and reported on."
"The Live Mount feature is excellent; it's useful for the backup administrator and end user."
"The ease of use is the most valuable feature. It is a very simple system compared to just about any other back up technology. It is extremely easy to use and very versatile."
"Rubrik is an easy and automatic solution that needs no manual intervention."
"Adaptative backup and SLAs simply allow you to tell a machine to backup without taking care of the backup window."
"What I like the most about Rubrik is its user-friendly interface."
"The live mount reduces complexity."
"Rubrik is stable and easy to use."
"Instant recovery is a good feature."
"We are satisfied with the stability of the product."
"It gives us the ability to locate and restore critical files which users may have intentionally or unknowing deleted a while ago."
"The solution is good for small and medium-sized businesses."
"Backup Exec 2012 R2 is a very good product for the Windows file system and SQL backups. It is very user-friendly, but the next version Backup Exec 2014 that is released and the other next versions of Backup Exec product is not so friendly."
"Veritas is good for small environments."
"Recovery via Active Directory is painless and much easier than the complicated setup procedures of other products."
"This solution is not complex and you do not have to be too technical to use it."
"Synthetic backup is valuable. It gives you the possibility to do a synthesized backup, which means that it combines a full backup and incremental backup data and gives it to you in one stream. So, you don't have to restore the full backup and then later go and restore the incremental backup. You can do that in one go."
"If it was possible to create backups on non-NetApp storage, that would be helpful."
"The documentation could be a little bit better so that we could handle more of the troubleshooting ourselves, rather than having to go through support."
"We have experience some difficulties with our current support. We are engaging in engineering level support because some of our problems are more technical."
"Since the solution's initial setup is complex, it should make training documents available in the public space."
"I feel a little bit that during the whole process of putting this software into production we were like a beta program. It was full of bugs... For example, we had a problem with truncating our Exchange log files... It has improved over time."
"The Microsoft environment is its biggest disadvantage due to the central management of all the actions. Because the SnapCenter server is where we deploy everything, it also affects the Microsoft environment, which can cause many difficulties when resolving issues like Windows update problems."
"We tend to have a lot of Hyper-V... so now we have two management consoles and we would ideally like to leverage SnapCenter to include Hyper-V."
"My major issue is when I upgrade. I have to touch every last client that I have in SnapCenter, and right now I have 60... They said that in another release that will get better, but right now it's not better and I've had to do this three times."
"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."
"The recovery of Oracle databases is too complicated. It is not something that helps the DBA, the Database Administrator, but it should be done by the backup person like many other solutions. Everything is ready for the DBA to recover the database. It is a way of doing things, but I don't think you should give the backup people the ability to do it."
"It is already very well furnished, but live mounts for Nutanix AHV would be amazing."
"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 main pain points we experienced was the stability of the system. We received a lot of instability when we have upgraded from a certain version to a new version. The newer version was completely filled with bugs and we needed to purge the system every week until we update to a newer version that was available one year later. The stability of the code is the main problem, they need to make it better."
"I don't like Rubrik's user interface because it's not intuitive, and I find it hard to get the information I need."
"I would like to have a built-in index searching ability of files/system files within the Rubrik interface to determine if a file or item exists, rather than just recovering it, and then doing a search for the file afterwards."
"Could be improved from an analytics point of view."
"They can work on the issue of the job timing out when it is unable to reach a selection item. It sometimes hangs up on the selection item, thus preventing the job from continuing."
"Its scalability should be improved."
"The price of this solution is very high."
"Doesn't include disaster recovery."
"We've experienced some performance issues with Backup Exec. The backup jobs take too long to complete."
"Initial setup is a bit complex and needs some expertise for troubleshooting when something goes wrong."
"We need to have duplication and better compression."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
