We performed a comparison between HPE Hyper Converged and Rubrik based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."StarWind Virtual SAN can improve an organization's storage infrastructure by providing high availability, scalability, cost-effectiveness, performance, and ease of use."
"This solution has a very good user interface, with simple administration/management."
"Virtual SAN runs on iSCSI, which is free and easy to configure. It's easy to manage from StarWind's GUI console, and it only required a few extra switch ports."
"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain."
"Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"It is extremely stable."
"The most valuable feature was its time to delivery."
"Ease of management, as I come from a software background, and I'm responsible for IT overall. I can get in there and turn some nuts and bolts and make things happen without any trouble."
"The product enables me to use any software or database."
"If you were comparing this solution to VMware, it has more features, and it's very fast on the recovery."
"No concerns or issues with stability."
"The most valuable features of this solution are fast deployment, security, and it is easy to upgrade."
"Our storage and IT are now at an enterprise level with all the necessary controls and restrictions being enacted."
"HPE Hyper Converged is stable."
"The most valuable feature has been the Live Mount feature."
"Rubrik has made the process to manage backup and recovery painless. This frees up more time to work on other projects."
"It has a single pane of glass interface."
"Rubrik has brought all of our backups under a single pane of glass and made recovery extremely simple."
"Mounting recent backups to create new servers rather than cloning servers in VMware drastically cut down required time."
"Rubrik is a very scalable and high-performing backup restore solution."
"The solution's technical support team is very responsive and proactive."
"The ease of use and innovation are the features that stand out for us."
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"It took a bit of knowledge and support to put in place but once installed it works fine. Migration (HyperV) from one server to another sometimes takes longer than expected but there is no data loss even if the host crashes."
"I did not see any indication that StarWinds vSAN is a usable solution with non-GUI instances of Hyper-V."
"The main issue we ran into was the documentation. We attempted to set up the product in our test environment by ourselves and ran into several areas of the documentation that were unclear to us."
"The price can be improved. We would like to see support for some open source virtualization technology like for example KVM."
"The solution would be better served if it integrated with other solutions better."
"Some improvement is required in the availability of the data and performance. The solution is too expensive for our customers. The pricing should be lower."
"The solution can be improved on the management side. More management features should be added to future releases."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"There could be better reporting and better filtering."
"Better integration for complex NAS structures having to mount at root adds time and workload to the process of NDMP."
"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."
"It needs to support more applications natively, like MySQL/MariaDB."
"Rubrik could improve in customization options for dashboards."
"Improving PowerShell integration would greatly simplify Rubrik management."
"The web interface could benefit from some improvement, particularly in terms of alerting and dashboard clarity. The cloud web interface is somewhat confusing and could use more development attention. Additionally, it's essential to ensure that local on-premise management options remain available alongside cloud-based solutions, as internet availability can affect backup management. Regarding features, cross-hypervisor restore functionality would be a valuable addition, allowing for greater flexibility in restoring VMs across different environments."
"The licensing cost is quite high. That is something that needs to be worked out, because so many times it happens that the team does not have the budget or there are other issues at that time. Cost has become an important factor in deciding whether to continue with the Rubrik solution."
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 HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Zerto and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain).
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