We performed a comparison between Rubrik and VxRail 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 search functionality is second to none as the speed of the search is fast across the whole system and predictive."
"We had some VMware issue as VMware did some changes on the AHCI drivers. Rubrik saved our environment those times."
"Also, the web interface is really great. The design, from a user-experience standpoint, is really straightforward and easy to use... they nailed it. Usually, from the very first panel, the dashboard that you land on after login, you've got most of your functionality right around where you need it to be. You've got your new items on the left, you've got your support on the top right. Nothing really seems out of place or just stuck in someplace."
"Rubrik, when compared to Cohesity, Dell, and Veritas, was the best of the four."
"Product support team is excellent, with issues typically being resolved on the same day."
"The fact that the API is so available to us with the playground — there's an internal and public playground — is also valuable. We can write API calls — and although I'm sure there's a way we could hurt the data — we write those calls with a lot of certainty that we won't be destroying anything. We write these API calls using really easy mechanisms and generate automation a lot faster."
"A Google-like file search, system scaling, and a frequent development cycle are some positives that this solution offers."
"Rubrik has improved our organization by minimizing downtime."
"For me, the most valuable feature is in relation to the software updates."
"I can roll out the system in thirty minutes and the customer can work with it."
"It improved from an operations standpoint as we have reduced failures compared to a previous vendor. The hardware that we previously used had a lot of issues with components failing regularly."
"The initial setup is simple."
"Our clients value being able to upgrade with one click or a few clicks."
"We are very happy with the purchase, and it works well. It is fast. We went with the full-flash version, meaning that we have SSDs. So, we can build a Windows virtual machine in two minutes. We were surprised when we first tried to do that."
"like VxRail because it's fully integrated. The other hyperconverged solutions are also well integrated. They are all highly similar to each other in that regard. But we prefer VxRail for its physical integrations or lifecycle management. It also has vCenter, which integrates the hardware lifecycle management."
"I have found that the admin deployment, monitoring off-premises, and the many services important features. Additionally, the solution has good integration."
"The solution's reporting feature could be better."
"There is always room for improvement with some shortcuts for the web interface. They could make it even more beautiful."
"Better integration for complex NAS structures having to mount at root adds time and workload to the process of NDMP."
"Setup is immediate but pricing is not cheap."
"It does not offer image-level backups for Hyper-V 2012."
"The licensing cost is quite high. That is something that needs to be worked out, because so many times it happens that the team does not have the budget or there are other issues at that time. Cost has become an important factor in deciding whether to continue with the Rubrik solution."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I need to create reports to know whether something is available or not, how much frontend data is being protected, etc. Rubrik gives a lot of things in the report, which can be confusing. It isn't very easy to get reports. It shows all the backup, index, replication, and everything else in one report. So, I have to export, filter, and then do the calculations."
"I would love to be able to just get from the dashboard to a file that I need, or a system that I need."
"The update for the graphics integration and the media drivers isn't included in the VxRail update."
"I wish for the performance environment to be improved."
"It should not be deployed on one hypervisor. There should be multiple hypervisors supported like Hyper-V or KVM."
"Having a native replication would be an improvement."
"The solution is okay to scale vertically but a bit difficult to expend horizontally. For example, increasing RAM."
"The solution is vendor-locked and Dell is the only supplier of VxRail."
"It's not really flexible with different use cases."
"The agility of the support team to provide you with better solutions should be improved. VxRail also has to be improved in terms of simplicity. Adding a simple node seemed like quite a project."
Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 82 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 115 reviews. Rubrik is rated 9.2, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Easy to use with minimal training required, innovative, good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Zerto and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series.
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