We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and Rubrik based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"Integration with Microsoft clustering has been perfect, allowing us to leverage our investment in MS server licensing to the fullest."
"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"With our four HyperFlex HX hosts (consisting of processor, memory, and disk), the performance is very fast and we have no problems at all. In all of the five years that we have been using HyperFlex, we haven't needed to increase our budget to buy additional hosts."
"Most of our users are Cisco customers, so it fits in within the suites we use. Primarily for me, as a solution architect, it's the technology and architecture that is the most valuable. I know from my technical colleagues that it's easy to use and for the customer, the up-time is the most valuable asset. It's running, has low failure, and so on which is why we use it."
"Our customers have seen ROI in terms of the time they save troubleshooting."
"Easy to spin up and operate virtual machines without the overhead of managing a storage network."
"The compute storage and virtualization come all in one box."
"I find the usability very valuable."
"Cisco offers very good quality."
"Cisco technical support is very skilled. From what I've had to access, there were quick responses and the necessary escalation."
"What I like the most about Rubrik is its user-friendly interface."
"The management and ease of installation are the most valuable features."
"It has a good interface which is simple to navigate and utilize."
"Rubrik is cheap, and you get good performance."
"Disk mount that lets a restore happen immediately, no need to re-hydrate."
"Intelligent agent technology."
"It is easy to deploy."
"The most valuable feature is the Instant Recovery, where we can restore a VM or SQL database or any server or application, and have it up and running on their appliance within a few seconds."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"StarWind Virtual SAN could benefit from better integration with other tools and technologies, such as backup and disaster recovery solutions."
"New versions of this solution should be tested more thoroughly before the release as we had a few problems with one version due to a bug."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"Being able to run StarWind vSAN on top of any free UNIX operating system to build a resilient iSCSI/FTP/SMB storage system would be useful."
"They require more media visibility."
"I have been receiving a memory overflow message every day when I use the solution."
"One aspect that really needs to be looked at, is to fix the bugs issue."
"Does not support the stretch cluster, and the interface is not good."
"There is a VMware plugin for HyperFlex, which sometimes it hangs up in our environment, and doesn't function well."
"It would have been nice if the product provided some cloud integrations."
"One of the biggest problems with HyperFlex HX is that if you want to adjust your solution in terms of processing power, memory, or disk capacity, you have to buy completely new hosts. From a financial perspective, it can be very expensive to do so, and from a legal perspective, there are all kinds of compliance issues we would have to sort out before buying any new solution or application."
"You cannot just apply the VSXi updates. You are dependent on Cisco HyperFlex for metric services, analytics, and everything else. I don't like that dependency."
"It needs improvements in terms of I/O. Sometimes I have felt it is slightly slow while we are trying to provision VMs or access VMs."
"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 love to be able to just get from the dashboard to a file that I need, or a system that I need."
"It needs more storage array integration options and an easier restore for files that download using a browser."
"It needs to keep innovating to stay relevant in the data management field."
"There is room for improvement in pricing. After the licensing, the price tends to go up as time goes by."
"We have some challenges with the solution's reporting because historical reports have some limitations."
"Global management of multiple systems is lacking, as is reporting across multiple installed units."
"There are some features to improve on in Rubrik. For instance, they should have a tool where we can integrate with our SAP HANA. Directly from the HANA studio, we should be able to do a backup. That's what I'm looking forward to in the future."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 90 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 86 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Rubrik is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] writes "A fast and easy deployment that allows secure access to our medical applications ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Automates the backup and recovery process, reducing manual human errors and global search allows for granular recoveries". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE SimpliVity, whereas Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Azure Backup and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain).
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