We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect 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 scalability of IBM Spectrum Protect is good."
"Reliability: It has never had a problem with backups or restores. If you store something, it is there."
"The D2D2T archive of my PACS data improved after I put Spectrum Protect 8.1.4 into production."
"With the new features that we have added, it has made a difference as far as faster recovery and speed."
"The tool proves invaluable in scenarios where systems need recovery, such as restoring damaged data."
"The backup on real-time, especially for the virtual machine, archiving, and retrieving the reader from the backup repository and getting it online, getting it validated, then performing the data consistency check over the backup."
"It helps our customers protect their data, especially with stuff like ransomware, compliance, and regulatory requirements."
"The addition of the retention set feature provides a reduction in storage costs. It also reduces RTO and RPO so that you can respond quickly to your clients and services in case of data loss."
"The most valuable feature for me in this latest release has been the ability to add a compute or storage node. In the previous release, if I wanted to add only the compute mode, I need to buy a full node, including both compute and storage. That is no longer the case; I can upgrade whatever I want one based on my demand."
"It supports VDI deployment, enabling easy use for running different platforms in similar environments."
"The technical support from Dell was very good."
"With VxRail, we can manage the life cycle of a virtual machine."
"VxRail simplifies IT infrastructure management by providing a single management console for compute, storage, and network. The second advantage is that VxRail offers a continuously validated architecture from the OEM. This means that Dell thoroughly tests all firmware updates before being released or installed on the product, helping to prevent compatibility issues. The third benefit is its ten-year roadmap. Dell consistently announces a roadmap for the product spanning the next decade."
"The solution is easy to use. When turning on a server or a machine that is required for, deployment or quality assurance, the dynamic deployment of resources is good."
"VxRail performs well in the VDI environment."
"The pricing is very, very good."
"We are having a balance issue between the reclamation and the backup function. It has to take the space back from the tapes before it can record to those tapes, but sometimes those two processes are overlapping."
"They are behind on many things, especially security. They are catching up a little bit now, but the competitors are doing better security-wise. There should be malware detection and prevention and higher security."
"It needs better connectivity with other non-IBM application hardware and non-IBM platforms."
"High availability (HA) is a scalability challenge."
"No one can fix every solution for backup and restore."
"There have been some sizing issues now, and we are dealing with those."
"We would like to see cloud integration."
"We would like to see bare-metal restorers."
"The requirements need improvement. Some of the managers of VMs are a little sensitive to where they need to be placed in the environment and what names they need to have. I would like a little more control over that so that it fits into our naming scheme and it fits our organizational structure within vSphere."
"This solution needs to have the capability where even older versions of hardware can be seamlessly utilized and additional expansion becomes so much easier."
"It's not really flexible with different use cases."
"Sometimes during the upgrade process of VxRail, we experience errors that have nothing to do with reality and I cannot troubleshoot them without calling Dell and bringing in an engineer to figure it out."
"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."
"I would like an easier migration. This way, if a node fails like it did, the data would have been migrated and I would not have had to get up at three in the morning."
"Right now, it's difficult for a non-technical person to participate in using the product. It could be made more consumer-friendly."
"One area of the product that could be improved is the support."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 120 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Performance and recoveries are better, and customers are happier with performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Rubrik and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and HPE Hyper Converged.
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