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."The install itself is easy as pie."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"It also provides a high degree of mobility, as the virtual SAN can be moved relatively painlessly between on-site devices and the cloud."
"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"The solution is also quite flexible. As an example, other vSAN solutions that we looked at had more stringent requirements regarding mixed HDD/SSD storage which wouldn't have worked in our environment."
"I save both physical and virtual space."
"This product now allows us to migrate virtual machines between nodes as if we had a dedicated $100,000 SAN in the mix without the additional cost and management of the SAN."
"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"The globally federated architecture means that the backup across sites does not consume precious MPLS bandwidth, which is cool."
"The backup and restore features are the most valuable."
"The backup and recovery is very fast, effective, and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is that the product has an inborn backup."
"Its performance and availability are most valuable."
"HPE SimpliVity is simple, it's very friendly."
"I find the replication feature valuable."
"The solution has eliminated the need for overprovisioning. It is designed to take advantage of deduplication strategies, which means we don't have to have as much disk in the system to do the job that we used to have to do."
"Rubrik has brought all of our backups under a single pane of glass and made recovery extremely simple."
"Intelligent agent technology."
"Rubrik is a faster unit from a hardware perspective. Things, like Live Mount, mean we can bring services back straightaway, then have them transition back into the live storage in the background. Because we can use Live Mount to do instant restores, a restore is now a five-minute job. Then, the rest of it is done in the background, rather than doing something for an hour before you actually get the restore back."
"What I like about Rubrik is that you can back up to the cloud. It is a different kind of backup where you're not archiving the tape. Rubrik is a physical appliance. It is a dedicated appliance to which you can back up, and you can also back up to another device. So, you can back up to Rubrik and then to another device. If you have more than one site, you can set up Rubrik on site A and also on site B. You can back up to the Rubrik on site A and then replicate that data to the Rubrik on site B."
"Rubrik simplifies our data backup and recovery processes significantly. It's very straightforward to use. We start by tagging through VMware, and everything tagged for Rubrik is backed up automatically. Backups are much better and faster because Rubrik takes a full snapshot of the virtual machine. We recently conducted a verification by performing a restore, and even during the restore process, we could bring up the server in less than 10-15 minutes. Additionally, we have set up alerts for sensitive data, which helps us track data."
"They have a great PowerShell module and easy mediums to speak to the people who create and enhance them."
"The management and ease of installation are the most valuable features."
"It has a good interface which is simple to navigate and utilize."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"It would be nice if we could designate pools, or tiers, for storage of different speeds, and then assign rules to new VMs that would automatically place them into the proper pool."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"When you will cease your contract with StarWind (for support) your product won't be updated and that is a big selling point, especially for us, as we have loads of products from StarWind."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"A great feature would be a wizard and to include a new disk in the SAN. At the moment, including a new disk requires several steps - some that must be done at the OS level and others in each node."
"The GUI deserves a little love."
"There are a lot of different components to choose from in the chassis. This could be easier by providing a standard or a base model to create and configure from."
"There are some small changes that can be made to the interface to improve it but it typically works well."
"We had some hardware compatibility issues with the earlier versions of HPE SimpliVity. We upgraded to the latest version a few months ago, and since then, there is no hardware failure, and it is better. They don't provide a portal to create a ticket directly for the HPE SimpliVity. We have a web portal to create a ticket when we have an issue, but for HPE SimpliVity, we need to call the local vendor for support. If they are not able to resolve the issue, they contact the global support, which takes more time. Technology is moving very fast, and everybody nowadays is focusing on the cloud base. In the future, they should integrate it with the cloud base for the backup."
"We should have something called micro segmentation inside the SimpliVity box, which can be easily implemented."
"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."
"Increased storage capacity for big data, something that we have not had."
"High availability for large production environments needs to be offered."
"The greatest disadvantage is the update process. Every patch or release update must be checked and deployed with the HPE solution, which sometimes is a little bit difficult. It is not difficult in terms of installation, but it is difficult to get the patches in time."
"It is an expensive product."
"Global management of multiple systems is lacking, as is reporting across multiple installed units."
"The dashboard and user interface could be improved to make them more user-friendly."
"Its cost is high."
"When errors do occur, it can be a somewhat painful process to get to the bottom of issues."
"With Windows, it is difficult to configure Oracle Database."
"The solution's reporting feature could be better."
"Lacks availability in a NFR format of virtual appliances to test them in public cloud environment."
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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