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."For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"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 is easy to deploy and administer."
"It is easy to use and can monitor system synchronization and check Storage status. StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) combines flash and disks of the cluster and forms a virtual shared storage “pool” accessible by all hosts. StarWind cuts down virtualization cost and complexity by eliminating the need for a physical shared storage (SAN). -StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured . we get technical support from star wind team when implementation software and after setup if we face any issue."
"Updates to server hardware are now painless and done during working hours with zero stress. We had a RAID failure a few months back, and nobody in the building even noticed and there was no after hours time used for repair."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"It doesn't take long to mount the entire VM somewhere and then copy it. That's one of the things that I like about SimpliVity's deduplication and compression. I can literally stand up a backup in minutes. It is like no time at all. They've got pretty phenomenal deduplication and compression. Within SimpliVity, one of the things that they do is deduplication and compression on ingestion. So, on the front side, everything is deduplicated and compressed, which, of course, adds some overhead to their solution. For instance, in my environment today, I've got roughly 30 terabytes of raw storage, and with their deduplication and compression, I'm over the 300 terabyte threshold with my active servers and all my backups."
"The simple management comes in handy since a standard VMware admin can manage it."
"Software upgrades and scalability can be done during normal business hours with no downtime."
"The main thing is its performance. In terms of performance, it is a lot better than VMware. Obviously, technology is changing a lot all the time. We were on just VMware with a separate attached array. The performance was kind of a step backward from just running separate servers. Now, the performance is much better, and we can take snapshots and backups of really big servers in just a matter of seconds. We can even restore them in a matter of seconds."
"Valuable features include ease of use, disaster recovery, and reliability."
"SimpliVity helps us to manage and has made deduplication work really well."
"The performance is good. It's stable and easy to operate."
"My impression is that it is a very nice solution. Very simple to use."
"The system is able to determine when it is the best time to do backups. This is SLA-driven, and if it is not possible to maintain this SLA, the system will tell you too."
"Rubrik can also serve as a secondary host for emergency recoveries."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Product support team is excellent, with issues typically being resolved on the same day."
"The main benefit is that we are secured in terms of workloads. We know that if we need to restore any VMs, or even any files inside a VM, that we will succeed 100 percent. This means that we don't need to spend much time administering the backup environment because we know it is self-healing and efficient. So, we are spending that time on something else, which is always a plus."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Its reporting is most valuable. I like how it reports that everything is successfully backed up. It provides a summarized report that I can give to auditors and management."
"Disk mount that lets a restore happen immediately, no need to re-hydrate."
"Sometimes documentation on their site can be out of date."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"I'd love to see native export of metrics (via Prometheus or something of that nature) to allow us to get more metrics available on our existing dashboard software."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"Bottleneck is the main issue."
"While it has been a while since HPE acquired SimpliVity, there is a lack of understanding/awareness about the product. In short, it took me time to actually make them understand they had a product named SimpliVity, which as you can imagine does not instill a great deal of confidence."
"Simplify the backup and restore: With integrated backup and remote replication, it could reduce risk and eliminates the use of legacy data tools."
"It's a very complex installation. It's gotten easier, however, it's far from a double click on a link and a self-upgrade scenario. There's still an awful lot of magic that goes down to doing upgrades."
"File level restores work well, but indexing will help make the process faster."
"The upgrades need improvement."
"I would like to see it able to restore item levels, especially for databases."
"The way that it handles the memory could be better."
"It is an expensive product."
"The open source database needs to be supported."
"I would like to have a built-in index searching ability of files/system files within the Rubrik interface to determine if a file or item exists, rather than just recovering it, and then doing a search for the file afterwards."
"We would like to be able to do granular restores directly from Exchange. Also, more granular management of VM backups would help."
"There is room for improvement through a further extension of their Office 365 backup platform. In addition, it's still a bit cost-prohibitive to backup NAS. Those would be the two primary areas for improvement."
"The solution needs to be more secure and needs to better protect against ransomware."
"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."
"It would be nice if they could work on the pricing a bit."
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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