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, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS\SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"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."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"The solution offers easy one-click PowerShell scripts that are ready to run."
"I have saved time and money by moving to the platform."
"The HPE SimpliVity disc compression is very valuable."
"SimpliVity has provided our organization with a cost effective DR/data protection solution."
"Software upgrades and scalability can be done during normal business hours with no downtime."
"HPE SimpliVity is simple, it's very friendly."
"The most valuable feature is high availability."
"Our clients are very comfortable with the single management of the complete stack. The creation of VM systems is also very fast."
"We use the Omnicubes to replicate our data to a second datacenter. By having our company data on the Omnicubes, we ensure that all of our data is constantly replicated within the defined intervals to the remote site."
"Rubrik has brought all of our backups under a single pane of glass and made recovery extremely simple."
"Automation functions, image based backup, and the ability to instantly recover anything from files to databases."
"There is a live-restore feature, their Live Mount, and the way it works we can instantly recover a VM, a past backup, to be directly attached to our VMware environment. Rubrik will act as a disk for it. It's like an instant restore. Within a few minutes our VM is up and running. And then, if we want to restore it, we can just migrate it to our actual storage."
"The feature that I have found most valuable from Rubrik is its protection against ransomware attacks. Rubrik is a very nice, very good solution because it is able to protect your data and you have the possibility from the backup to detect any abnormal behavior, like a ransomware attack. You are able to detect and restore very easily with this solution. This is a major differentiator in comparison to the other competitors."
"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."
"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."
"The product's most valuable feature is the immutability of a backup."
"The Live Mount feature is excellent; it's useful for the backup administrator and end user."
"It should be improved in the way it detects the right filesystem image after a complete shutdown of the system or in the case of disaster recovery."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"They require more media visibility."
"StarWind Virtual SAN could benefit from better integration with other tools and technologies, such as backup and disaster recovery solutions."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"It would be great if the Linux version of the management console offered the same features as Windows."
"The product should be competitive with other brands."
"SimpliVity has no file server services. That's one of the solution's biggest shortcomings."
"I would like to see it be a truly hybrid-cloud solution where I could take my on-prem SimpliVity environment and have replication to a cloud install."
"The installation process could be simplified. It's a bit technical for non-IT users."
"SimpliVity's data management could be better. Nutanix's interface is a bit more user-friendly."
"HPE SimpliVity should cost less."
"HPE SimpliVity could be more flexible and scalable. I don't feel SimpliVity is flexible or easily scalable because I still need to buy another server to add to my clusters. I can't just run or harvest and add to my solution. I need to buy another server. There are a lot of components that are not giving a lot of value to me right now. I also had a few problems with the built-in hard disk drives. I've had many issues with the harvest stripes that the servers use. Maybe it's a coincidence, but it's unusual to have a physical failure on the HPE platform. I don't see any value at the software level, especially in the software that manages that solution. I was waiting for something, especially in the application layer that I would use, but that is all over VMware, and it doesn't have an integrated module that I can use to manage the server and all the instances."
"Upgrading can be complicated."
"They should give more access to the backend capabilities. From a customer point of view, you do not have access to all the features on the system. You have to engage their support to perform some of the tasks. It would be helpful for an experienced engineer to be able to go and do some of those tasks prior to contacting the support."
"I have a personal want which might not necessarily make sense with Rubrik as a company or Rubrik as a software, but it'd be really nice if they could also handle things like item-level backups and restores of Active Directory objects and DNS and DCP objects."
"Collecting logs in Rubrik is very difficult compared to other tools."
"Rubrik is expensive."
"If I could take a snapshot from a physical and be able to stand it up as a virtual immediately without the need to rebuild an entire system and restoring files, that would be HUGE."
"The Polaris piece could use improvement. When you get a report and you have events that are suspicious, you cannot drill down and find out why it's suspicious. You only know it's suspicious, but you don't know the root cause. Other than that, everything works well."
"Could be improved from an analytics point of view."
"Rubrik can only leverage cloud storage for archiving and has no cloud failover."
HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 149 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 82 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 Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, whereas Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Zerto and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain).
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