We performed a comparison between HPE Hyper Converged and Rubrik based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"The virtual tapes can be uploaded to the object storage of your choice with object locking/governance which gives you an extra layer of protection."
"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"We are running Hyper-V on twin servers in failover, and being able to manage servers from anywhere I need to, virtually, has been a game changer."
"It's a very complete product with residencies to protect data and secure it end-to-end. It includes storage, computing, and networking, offering a fully ten-key solution."
"HPE Hyper Converged is stable."
"The HPE Hyper Converged solution is used in a hybrid cloud configuration. We assess the disk space and partition additional capacity."
"The HA, which means I have a copy of the VMs always available, and the moment a VM is down, the system tries to power it on again."
"The provisioning is very fast. It’s not a problem for us to achieve the goals of the client."
"The most valuable features are resiliency and data protection."
"It is a stable solution...Those who want flexibility, ease of use, and a simple support system can opt for HPE."
"It provides unmatched performance, productivity and reliability."
"The solution is extremely stable. They've been phenomenal, especially for a young company."
"Disk mount that lets a restore happen immediately, no need to re-hydrate."
"Rubrik can also serve as a secondary host for emergency recoveries."
"The management and ease of installation are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature of Rubrik for me is its user-friendliness and efficiency."
"It has a streamlined user interface, provides an improved tech support experience, and reduces time required to locate and restore data."
"Adaptative backup and SLAs simply allow you to tell a machine to backup without taking care of the backup window."
"Rubrik, when compared to Cohesity, Dell, and Veritas, was the best of the four."
"The only point they should improve is the amount of documentation available for the user, especially in the first preliminary phase in which we were testing the product on our own."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"We don't really have any issues with this product."
"We would like the documentation to be more complete. Most items are covered, but if you don't know something, you may need to contact their support."
"When you will cease your contract with StarWind (for support) your product won't be updated and that is a big selling point, especially for us, as we have loads of products from StarWind."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"It would be great if the Linux version of the management console offered the same features as Windows."
"We have faced some challenges when upgrading. With Hyper Converged, you have to fully upgrade because there are no incremental upgrades available in this solution. For example, let's say we have two nodes. If we want to upgrade storage, we also need to upgrade computing. That means a full upgrade EME."
"In my country, the biggest issue is probably pricing."
"Could be more secure and more economical."
"The software version on the HC380s we are using is version 1. It does not support spanned vCenter which we use since we have multiple sites."
"One problem I've had is that I was trying to do a move and it was not working. I was given an error and a message asking me to shut down the machine first and then move it to another host."
"The improvements could be customization and backup efficiency."
"One of the things that can be improved is that today, is supporting VMware, maybe as a hypervisor. But it would be good to have an open kind of platform for other hypervisors, maybe. Like Nutanix is doing, it's very open."
"Providing local technical support and improving the price are areas this service needs to consider improving."
"It is already very well furnished, but live mounts for Nutanix AHV would be amazing."
"Rubrik can only leverage cloud storage for archiving and has no cloud failover."
"Troubleshooting failed backups is difficult, and deciphering the logs without the help of support is usually almost impossible."
"It needs to keep innovating to stay relevant in the data management field."
"A singular system is needed to manage all of the clusters."
"It needs more storage array integration options and an easier restore for files that download using a browser."
"User interface could be improved."
"The interface is still slightly clunky and has room for improvement. They do work with us whenever we mention anything that needs to be done or anything that we want. We find that bringing up the management interface is a little slow and not as intuitive as we would like, but it's been getting better as it evolves."
HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 10th in HCI with 34 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 86 reviews. HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2, while Rubrik is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of HPE Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". 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". HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, 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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