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."We can freeze and start databases for consistent backups."
"We work very closely together with IBM using their Support Center, but we have a strong contact in their development teams, and we have dedicated people from IBM working with us."
"We can use it with any storage for the back-end to save data."
"Support of the IBM X platform and the backup data replication to DR are the most valuable features."
"You can protect your data and keep it for long durations, without it spending too much time on the local disk."
"Traditional storage works perfectly with it."
"The platform has valuable stability."
"What I found most valuable in IBM Spectrum Protect is that it allows you to back up physical machines, and its proxy feature lets you back up virtual machines."
"We were able to speed up our gaming software, which was a big plus."
"It is truly a hyper-converged infrastructure, so everything is there together."
"It helps our servers and it is very efficient."
"One beneficial feature is that the solution can handle complex environments."
"The implementation was quick, we used a checklist and it took approximately one hour."
"VxRail has given us a lot of tools in a one-stop-shop environment."
"Depending on your architecture type, it's simple to manage and implement VxRail compared to other solutions. That's why most of our customers use it."
"Initial setup is straightforward, as everything is pre-installed."
"The software is very complicated. You have to do a lot of configurations to build a server, and you would need to backup and restore."
"The software is complex; setup is complex."
"IBM Spectrum Protect does have a lot of the features that we need, but I think they need to improve their backup virtualization and backup for container."
"I think Spectrum Protect's interface is not so user-friendly, but the interface is not so friendly. Some of the functions are too complicated. I prefer a simpler solution."
"High availability (HA) is a scalability challenge."
"The GUI has long been a problem for TSM/Spectrum Protect."
"There were scalability issues only in the brand new features which were recently released."
"There could be various client systems and process integration included in the product."
"Pricing could be improved."
"They should have better compatibility with other processors, such as AMD processors."
"The version upgrade process should be simplified."
"If we could have some out of the box ideas in integration, I think that would be a great feature."
"The agility of the support team to provide you with better solutions should be improved. VxRail also has to be improved in terms of simplicity. Adding a simple node seemed like quite a project."
"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 like to have a unified platform where I, for example, can manage my 50 stores from a single portal in VxRail and be able to apply all the updates at once. I want to unify them into a centralized console."
"The licensing is a bit too costly."
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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