"Rubrik is highly scalable and is easy to do."
"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."
"We have a great success rate for backups with Rubrik and because of the ease of automating tasks, we also run periodical restores to check the quality of the backups."
"It has also saved us time managing backups. It's pretty stable. So it sends us a report if something goes wrong, then you get a report. You don't really need to manually monitor this software over time. If something happens, you'll get an error and you'll get an email notification and then address it. We found the product pretty stable if it's configured correctly. So it has reduced management time."
"The security and the ransomware protection are most valuable."
"The ease of use and innovation are the features that stand out for us."
"The feature that I found most valuable is Live Mount. You can either mount a virtual machine from a snapshot, or you can mount a volume from the snapshot. You can mount one disk to the server to retrieve data, or you can mount the whole VM, rename it, and use it as a test VM. If your VM gets corrupted, you just mount one from the snapshot, and you have your production VM's backup. So, Live Mount is definitely the best feature for me as an end-user."
"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."
"The stability continues to get better and better. It's pretty reliable."
"Cost-effective and easy to install."
"I would recommend VxRail, it works for most of the use cases."
"Easy to scale."
"I like that there is a dependency on the storage controller."
"Updating the product has been very easy."
"It's somewhat hard to speak about specific features, but I like VxRail's simplicity and ease of use. It's a decent solution for customers with a small footprint. If you're operating a big data center, it's not easy to position VxRail or HCI solutions, but when you have a small customer managing many different components, it's easier to work only with one solution."
"There is room for improvement in pricing. After the licensing, the price tends to go up as time goes by."
"There is always room for improvement with some shortcuts for the web interface. They could make it even more beautiful."
"The Office 365 protection could be improved."
"The only thing that can be improved is catering for open source databases because at the moment it doesn't cater for Mongo, MySQL, and Postgres."
"They have what's called an organization which means different groups of access to Rubrik, but the alerting only goes to the admins. My suggestion to Rubrik is to make sure that the separate organizations or groups of users get the appropriate alerting."
"The dashboard and user interface could be improved to make them more user-friendly."
"The integrated reporting is not really that nicely built. The reporting functionality could definitely be a little bit more customizable from an administration perspective, with an easier to understand interface."
"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."
"The licensing is a bit too costly."
"If we could have some out of the box ideas in integration, I think that would be a great feature."
"I can't speak to any missing features or weak aspects of the system just yet. We haven't had a chance to really dig in."
"if we're looking at costs, Nutanix will win because it allows flexibility in the type of hardware you can use."
"The price could be better. The backup mechanism could also be better. Some of our clients prefer to work with backup software from a different vendor. They don't do a built-in backup solution. It would be better if they had guidelines on proper sizing and the whole life cycle from the requirement collection. If there aren't any proper guidelines, how do I go to the customer and evaluate their existing infrastructure? How can you do appropriate sizing to migrate to a hyper-converged environment? I think this is a requirement because most of our clients are migrating to a hyper-converged environment. In the next release, they can improve absolutely anything you can think of to improve the product in general—for example, the clusters and backup software."
"The solution could improve by having more storage performance because in some other solutions you can have a file system that can be mounted at several places at one time."
"I would prefer it if each cell had a tool geared toward billing clients."
"Dell wants to implement the disaster site in the new year, but they haven't decided yet. I hope we will have the opportunity to sell VxRail with this disaster site. It is not really clear at the moment, but hopefully, we will get some good news from the customers in the new year."
Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery Software with 33 reviews while VxRail is ranked 3rd in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 66 reviews. Rubrik is rated 9.2, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Easy to use with an intuitive web interface, helpful support, good performance, and saves us time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Good automation makes this solution practical". Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault and Dell EMC PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Acropolis AOS and Dell EMC PowerFlex.
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