Exagrid EX Series

Score9.5 out of 10

8 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Exagrid EX Series are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Great Support: Many users have found the support provided by ExaGrid to be exceptional. They appreciate that upgrades are coordinated with a dedicated support engineer and are often suggested and performed proactively. The technical support team is knowledgeable and helpful during the upgrade process.

Reliable and Fast Performance: Several users praise the appliance for its reliability and speed. It consistently performs as advertised, meeting their expectations. This is particularly important for maintaining database backups. Additionally, the appliance offers good compression, allowing users to store a large amount of data in a small space.

Efficient Deduplication and Compression: A number of users highlight the efficiency of ExaGrid's deduplication and compression algorithms. These features enable them to store a significant amount of data without taking up excessive storage space. Users appreciate that deduplication processing is done on the grid without impacting production workloads.

Reviews

4 Reviews

A cost-effective and easy-to-use backup solution

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 9, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using the Exagrid EX Series in our company since 2018 to solve the issue of storing backups. We use it to store backups for one or two months before to data moved to the Azure. We are using a combination of Veeam and Exagrid. After the implementation we have completely eliminated tapes and we had overall costs reduction. We currently use it on remote sites like and our vessels.

Pros

Reduced physical space
Easy configuration and handling
Great cost savings with backup
Pre-implementation support from Exagrid

Cons

Better integration with cloud environment
Faster handling interface speed

Likelihood to Recommend

We have Exagrid [EX Series] in different environments and it has adapted very well to both. We have used it for larger environments and its scalability if properly and takes up little physical space. We also use it as a backup solution for smaller environments, such as our vessels. I don't see where the adaptability of Exagrid [EX Series] can be bad or unadjustable.

Ismael Pereira

Senior IT Analyst in Information Technology at TechnipFMC (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

Exagrid EX Series

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 9, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We're currently using Exagrid [EX Series] worldwide as a standard solution for Remote and smaller Sites, such as Vessels and Manufacturing plants.
One of the main benefits is the native integration with Veeam Backup and Replication solution, as Exagrid [EX Series] has a internal "data mover". Being recognized as a 'data mover' by Veeam removes one hop on the data traffic and helps increasing the backup speeds.
Exagrid EX Series has 10Gbps ports, that can be configured in a active/backup mode or in a LACP / port aggregation channel, increasing even more the backup speeds.
It has a very friendly management interface, where you can manage multiple Exagrid nodes and do all the daily / required activities.
The Exagrid [EX Series] storage space is divided in 2: a 'landing zone' and a 'retention zone'.
Landing zone, as the name says, is where the backup 'lands'. This area has no deduplication/compression enabled, what makes a little faster to restore data when needed. You can configure how much time, or how many copies do you want to keep on the 'landing zone' before moving data to 'retention zone'.
When moving data to 'retention zone', Exagrid [EX Series] deduplicates it, providing an excellent retention capability.

Pros

High backup speeds
Native Veeam integration
Deduplication/efficiency savings
Friendly management interface
Native replication between Exagrid boxes

Cons

Support (Exagrid has a 'personalized' support, what I think has some room for improvement)

Likelihood to Recommend

In our environment, we're using Exagrid [EX Series] on Remote/smaller sites, with something around 50TB of data (to be protected) and it works really well.
I see no reason for it to work on larger scales, it is very scalable, you can natively replicate backup data between Exagrid appliances (like in a Prod/DR scenario). So, it should work fine on larger environments also.

Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

Review of ExaGrid EX13000E series backup target appliance

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 6, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the EX13000E series as backup targets for Veeam backups. We have three appliances clustered at each site with two sites, for a total of 39 TB of space per site.

Pros

Its landing space allows for extremely fast data ingestion.
Its compression and de-duplication algorithms make it very efficient.
ExaGrid support is excellent; I check in with my dedicated account rep twice a year, and they make sure my hardware is up to date. They take care of all software upgrades for me.

Cons

I don't have much to add here. Overall, it has been a solid purchase for us.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you have a need for a high performance backup target that can ingest a large amount of data on the front end, then process it later. If you use Veeam, the two work very well together.

Shawn Umansky

Network Engineer in Information Technology at Saint Michael's College (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

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A backup solution that is cheap and reliable

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 30, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Exagrid EX series is currently being used by our IT department to address the issue of storing backups. We use it to store backups that are a month or older before they are eventually moved to AWS. Exagrid helps us use virtual backups and by using a combination of Veeam,Exagrid, and Glacier, we have completely eliminated tapes and reduced overall coats and in the process increased efficiency which was generally a problem with the traditional tape backup.

Pros

Dedupes and compresses data extremely well. We have a total of 100 TB that seems like a PB for our use case.
Provides a cifs share platform if that is one of your needs.
We deployed a physical appliance un our DC that provides us 100TB of storage. It is easily scalable and easy to use.
Technical support helps you with the upgrade process in case of new release and they are very knowledgeable.
GUI is easy to use and the product requires no learning curve.

Cons

Helped us eliminate traditional tape backups which were not reliable and took longer for the backup and recovery process.
Very quick and easy recovery in case of a DR scenario compared to other backup solutions.
Cost-effective.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited for all sized environments especially if you are currently using tape backups. Provides a very easy to use GUI amd their support is outstanding.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

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