Learning Rubrik by putting the pieces together Brik by Brik
September 27, 2023
Learning Rubrik by putting the pieces together Brik by Brik

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- Rubrik Cloud Data Management
- Rubrik Polaris
- Rubrik Go
Overall Satisfaction with Rubrik
We use Data Protection software for disaster recovery and recently switched over to using Rubrik. The scale out architecture is very appealing along with the “single pane” view of the multiple clusters. The support for other applications such as SQL and Oracle has allowed us to replace multiple products with a single product.
Pros
- Deployment and periodic upgrades the the agent (RBS)
- Single pane of glass view through the Rubrik Security Cloud
- Protecting data through air gapped immutable erasure coding
Cons
- More granular control of permissions in the custom RBAC
- quiescing I/O to Archival Location when pausing (instead of the pause causing all scheduled archive jobs to start canceling, which in turn generates tons of I/O)
- Direct support to Fibre Attached Tape Library
- Deployment of Clusters (composed of appliance nodes) involved bad components needing replaced on over 100 nodes being deployed, delaying deployment
- Cluster was undersized due to assumption that a large Database backup would never need a Full backup in the future (relying on the incremental forever concept)
- Allowed the replacement of multiple products with just one product (assuming tape isn’t needed)
Selected Rubrik due to API driven, modern easy to use interface and appliances in a scale out architecture with a secure file system protecting backup data
Do you think Rubrik delivers good value for the price?
Not sure
Are you happy with Rubrik's feature set?
Yes
Did Rubrik live up to sales and marketing promises?
No
Did implementation of Rubrik go as expected?
No
Would you buy Rubrik again?
Yes
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