We performed a comparison between Dell PowerFlex and Rubrik based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"It provides shared storage to multiple hypervisor hosts. Times had changed, however. StarWind Virtual SAN is the “software replaces hardware” for SAN. We have access control and CCTV systems up and running using Microsoft clustering and shared storage"
"The software is easy to setup and manage, and the support is excellent."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"It is easy to use for management and operations teams because the tools are in one place."
"The solution was connected to alternate storage. It provides great scalability and reliability."
"The solution is quite stable."
"The integration with AWS is a valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is integration."
"The setup was very straightforward."
"The support is highly responsive."
"The most valuable feature is high availability."
"Rubrik is cheap, and you get good performance."
"The most valuable feature is the archive to cloud location and the automation around the PowerShell script. There are also reports and dashboards."
"The solution is extremely stable. They've been phenomenal, especially for a young company."
"The management and ease of installation are the most valuable features."
"Drives the back-end through a powerful, well-documented API."
"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."
"When it comes to saving time managing our backups, Rubrik has saved us a lot of time compared to what we were using. It feels like it has saved us lifetimes of time because the process used to be difficult. It's not just the day to time savings. When something goes wrong, that's where the real time savings comes into play. We are able to get back to where we need to be more confidently and with much fewer steps."
"Rubrik has brought all of our backups under a single pane of glass and made recovery extremely simple."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"The main issue we ran into was the documentation. We attempted to set up the product in our test environment by ourselves and ran into several areas of the documentation that were unclear to us."
"The Command Center, a free guest VM for management and monitoring, leaves something to be desired. It could have more accurate real-time information and better reporting visuals, which seem to be an afterthought."
"I think there might be some room for improvement when it comes to pricing, because although I know how to convert customers, at the end of day, it's quite expensive. Sometimes your feature architecture is still coming out much cheaper than hardware costs for your infrastructure."
"Exporting data from the dashboard is not very user-friendly. It's just designed in a way that it's going to cover let's say 90%, 80%, of the end-users needs. If you need more sophisticated reporting it's not easy to have."
"Compared to similar solutions, Dell PowerFlex is not cost-effective and has room for improvement."
"Including instrumentation would be a helpful improvement."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly interface."
"They should provide continuous support for data migration."
"I am not really impressed by the technical support of this solution."
"We've had some issues around the licensing."
"Collecting logs in Rubrik is very difficult compared to other tools."
"I would like to see the entire Office 365 product suite backed up by Rubrik. For instance, they do SharePoint and Exchange online, but they don't back up Microsoft Teams. So, I would like to see more of the Office 365 suite added into their backup capabilities."
"The product’s user interface needs improvement."
"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."
"User interface could be improved."
"It is already very well furnished, but live mounts for Nutanix AHV would be amazing."
"With multiple Rubrik clusters setup in an environment, it becomes painfully obvious that this product needs a central management console."
"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."
Dell PowerFlex is ranked 8th in HCI with 20 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 86 reviews. Dell PowerFlex is rated 8.0, while Rubrik is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Dell PowerFlex writes "Is very resilient and protects our data, but the solution is complex". 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". Dell PowerFlex is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI 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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