We performed a comparison between Rubrik and VMware vSAN 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 Live Mount feature is excellent; it's useful for the backup administrator and end user."
"In the event of any issues or questions, the support is top-notch. We rarely need to use support, but when they are needed, they are always quick to respond and very knowledgeable."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"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 highly scalable and is easy to do."
"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."
"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."
"Drives the back-end through a powerful, well-documented API."
"The solutions best feature is that it is easy to use."
"Overall the solution is very good."
"vSAN can help customers save on storage system costs, and also save on the human cost."
"It is very easy to set up and very easy to use. It is very useful."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is that it is stable."
"This product has very good performance when it comes to virtualization storage and works well with solutions such as SAP HANA, Exadata, Hadoop, and Big Data Analytics."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to continue our business needs and have higher visibility. It has definitely increased our business productivity levels."
"It has a single pane of glass for management and operational control, which is the most valuable feature. The integrated storage is also valuable."
"It is an expensive product."
"Global management of multiple systems is lacking, as is reporting across multiple installed units."
"It is a lot more expensive than other solutions, but you get what you pay for."
"It needs to keep innovating to stay relevant in the data management field."
"It does not offer image-level backups for Hyper-V 2012."
"It needs to support more applications natively, like MySQL/MariaDB."
"A singular system is needed to manage all of the clusters."
"The reporting, in particular the customization of reports, needs to be improved."
"Dedupe in non flash drives can be improved."
"There could be more features with the automatic backup."
"The UI falls short compared to other solutions. It needs some development to make it more user-friendly."
"While I like the replication and compression features, there is a problem with them running too slowly."
"There's already a concern with VMware with ransomware and security issues. VMware could focus on improving security."
"This solution would benefit from better collaboration with Cisco for driver updates."
"We would really like them to look at what Nutanix did for day-one/day-two operations deployment: Bringing in the equipment, getting it deployed, getting it setup, and ease of use of one-click for deploying our 30-node solution. With vSAN we had to go into each one individually and set it up."
"The pricing model is sometimes a challenge for us because their licenses are very costly."
Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 83 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 227 reviews. Rubrik is rated 9.2, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Easy to use with minimal training required, innovative, good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Zerto and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell PowerFlex.
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