We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and Rubrik based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"The Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"When using new (warranty) servers, you can forget about the storage service for several years. The users will not even notice the failure of two servers out of three."
"StarWind vSAN was very easy to integrate into our system and ran flawlessly during our entire use time."
"When we need additional storage but want to keep the size of the SANs manageable, the StarWind Virtual SAN has allowed me to do everything needed."
"I like the asynchronous replication and failover features. They are what I'm primarily using it for. The asynchronous replication is helpful because our servers are backed up continuously throughout the day. If anything goes wrong we just fail over immediately. That is a very nice feature to have."
"StarWind vSAN is a great solution to create a redundant two-node-only Hyper-V cluster, both for domain or workgroup scenarios."
"SimpliVity helps us to manage and has made deduplication work really well."
"The feature that I like the most is the backup feature embedded inside the HPE SimpliVity. When we have any activity, within five minutes, we have a backup. It also has PDR for performing disaster recovery."
"The rate of compression for the data in SimpliVity is the most valuable feature."
"The interface is very good and is very easy to navigate. You can find everything you need from one central place."
"Backups happen very quickly."
"It's much more simple than Nutanix and other hyper-converged solutions, at least from our point of view."
"It's a very nice solution. It's a complete solution that we are looking for because we don't have personnel with expertise."
"The technical support is exceptionally good."
"Rubrik can also serve as a secondary host for emergency recoveries."
"I value the options it has for storage tiering (i.e. whether it should be a flash, SSD, or pushed to the cloud) depending on the data provided."
"Takes me 80 percent less time to manage my backup environment."
"In the event of any issues or questions, the support is top-notch. We rarely need to use support, but when they are needed, they are always quick to respond and very knowledgeable."
"We had some VMware issue as VMware did some changes on the AHCI drivers. Rubrik saved our environment those times."
"The archiving, off-of-box, is awesome. It lets you put your data where you want it and gives you the peace of mind of having more than one copy of it. And it's smart about the way that it does the archiving. It doesn't just copy one-for-one. It does all of its processing of the deduplication and compression before it sends it off to the archive, which helps with our cloud costs."
"The initial setup is easy."
"A reduced infrastructure complexity and fast to rack and go."
"Being able to run StarWind vSAN on top of any free UNIX operating system to build a resilient iSCSI/FTP/SMB storage system would be useful."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"Management of VSAN itself could be improved. A Web UI for management would be great rather than an application installation. StarWind is testing a command center virtual appliance that I have installed in my environment."
"The gathering of monthly consumption and performance reports for future dissemination to concerned parties is very important. Unfortunately, StarWinds vSAN doesn't offer this functionality."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"The price is quite high. The system could also be more scalable."
"One thing that I would like to see improved is the flexibility of the node expansion."
"We had one call with technical support which was not completely answered to our satisfaction. We did not receive the right answer."
"We would like to have more security with the solution."
"It could integrate better with other platforms. It's a proprietary solution of HPE, so you are stuck. Before I was running SimpliVity as an independent solution. it wasn't a card and software, so you could put in whatever server, IBM, Dell, etc."
"SimpliVity has very limited options for the virtualization layer."
"The local support in Argentina is not good. This is a new technology and HP doesn't have a lot of technology specialists here in Argentina. It's very hard to find the specialist here."
"File level restores work well, but indexing will help make the process faster."
"The integrated reporting is not really that nicely built. The reporting functionality could definitely be a little bit more customizable from an administration perspective, with an easier to understand interface."
"Rubrik could improve in customization options for dashboards."
"If there was something that we could get Rubrik to fix, it would be when our DBS takes snapshots of a server or the database, the replication doesn't kick off fast enough. They can't remote it to the peer site and manipulate it back up in order to move it over, take a copy of production, slap it over, and test it out. As I understand, they are working on it. Replication works. We also get spoiled by how good things are now. We get to a point where it is so easy but when something isn't instant gratification, it seems that everything else is so amazing, why isn't this right?"
"Better integration for complex NAS structures having to mount at root adds time and workload to the process of NDMP."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I need to create reports to know whether something is available or not, how much frontend data is being protected, etc. Rubrik gives a lot of things in the report, which can be confusing. It isn't very easy to get reports. It shows all the backup, index, replication, and everything else in one report. So, I have to export, filter, and then do the calculations."
"The solution's reporting feature could be better."
"With multiple Rubrik clusters setup in an environment, it becomes painfully obvious that this product needs a central management console."
"It is not Windows Cluster-Aware at the moment or Exchange DAG-Aware. If they add support for these particular use cases, it would be even better."
HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 83 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while Rubrik is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Easy to use with minimal training required, innovative, good support". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and HPE StoreVirtual, whereas Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Zerto and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain).
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