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."In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"As the client had acquired another company some distance away, they were concerned about having a single SAN in one location or the other. StarWind vSAN allowed us to keep a copy of the data local to each site without asking the client to pay for two SANs in addition to the two new servers they needed."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"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."
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"The scalability of this tool is very good. You can basically add more storage and seamlessly expand the current storage that you have."
"Hyper Converge is easier to manage and performs better than traditional infrastructure."
"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."
"One of the good features would be the fast backup solution Hyper Converged offers, which is more efficient compared to other vendors."
"The most valuable feature was its time to delivery."
"What I really like about this program, is that it needs little space and it works really fast, so it saves us time."
"The most valuable feature is the in-built backup system. The backup speed is also excellent."
"I've found the data protection features the most valuable."
"Disk mount that lets a restore happen immediately, no need to re-hydrate."
"The most valuable feature is the Instant Recovery, where we can restore a VM or SQL database or any server or application, and have it up and running on their appliance within a few seconds."
"The solution's technical support team is very responsive and proactive."
"The most valuable features of Rubrik are the restoration and ease of use."
"Management is so simple that anyone can check the backups and do restores when necessary."
"Instant recovery of virtual machines allows for the restoration of services in minutes."
"Rubrik is stable and easy to use."
"The Live Mount feature is excellent; it's useful for the backup administrator and end user."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"In all areas the product could be made faster."
"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."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"Though I have learned some of the nuances with the upgrading of firmware/windows/etc., it would be nice to have a more efficient method of doing so."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
"The product must provide more storage capability."
"I would like to see a more intuitive, user-friendly UI."
"I would like to see improvement in the hardware underneath it. Currently, it's a Gen9 DL380. One day, there will be a Gen10 DL380 and maybe they will have bigger or smaller sizes."
"The solution's pricing for the hardware and support could be reduced."
"The solution is not very stable."
"In the Hyper Converged environment, some of the brands only support the OS VMware and not Hyper-V from Microsoft or even Red Hat or KVM."
"Installation and setup could be easier."
"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."
"It is an expensive product."
"The price of Rubrik is too high, especially when you are considering a change in the total backup solution."
"Troubleshooting failed backups is difficult, and deciphering the logs without the help of support is usually almost impossible."
"They support Hyper-V and it works with our CloudOut, the cloud DR, but they seem to add features for VMware first and Hyper-V gets added second or sometimes several releases after the VMware feature comes out."
"We would like to be able to do granular restores directly from Exchange. Also, more granular management of VM backups would help."
"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 needs to support more applications natively, like MySQL/MariaDB."
HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 10th in HCI with 34 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 83 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 "Easy to use with minimal training required, innovative, good support". 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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