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 installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"The software is easy to setup and manage, and the support is excellent."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"Highly available storage is the most valuable feature. The entire rollout is hyper-converged and requires no extra storage further than the hosts in which Hyper-V is running. Another feature that has been great is the support from StarWind in general. We have their proactive support package on the main cluster that employs Starwind Virtual SAN."
"The solution has integrated backup features that are useful."
"It has lessened our burden on multiple different products, so they are under one umbrella. This has been economically good."
"Dedupe, compression, and replication of primary and secondary data, locally and remotely."
"The built-in backup and quick restore are good features."
"The initial setup was very easy as I had the SimpliVity engineers work with our managed services."
"The features I have found most valuable are the convergence of the infrastructure and multi-platform support, for example, VMware and Hyper-V"
"The solution's technical support is good."
"The most valuable features of SimpliVity are the built-in backup and immunity to ransomware."
"Rubrik is very simple to implement and setup. "
"It has a good interface which is simple to navigate and utilize."
"The feature that I found most valuable is Live Mount. You can either mount a virtual machine from a snapshot, or you can mount a volume from the snapshot. You can mount one disk to the server to retrieve data, or you can mount the whole VM, rename it, and use it as a test VM. If your VM gets corrupted, you just mount one from the snapshot, and you have your production VM's backup. So, Live Mount is definitely the best feature for me as an end-user."
"The ease of use is the most valuable feature. It is a very simple system compared to just about any other back up technology. It is extremely easy to use and very versatile."
"The most valuable feature of Rubrik for me is its user-friendliness and efficiency."
"CloudOn allows for backed up virtual machines stored offsite in Azure to be instantiated as an Azure virtual machine and spun up."
"Replaces legacy tapes and disk backups which are unreliable, expensive and space consuming."
"The most valuable feature has been the Live Mount feature."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"The documentation is good yet is still lacking in a few areas."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"Our customers are always looking or a discount on the product."
"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."
"Its performance can be faster."
"Simplify the backup and restore: With integrated backup and remote replication, it could reduce risk and eliminates the use of legacy data tools."
"I have not seen ROI."
"The biggest feature, which should be included, is some method to handle archival backup or cloud-based backup. Where SimpliVIty typically falls down with their data structure is: The longer a backup is kept, the more space it ends up inevitably using. When you get into things that you have to keep for five or seven years for legal requirements or regulatory compliance, then you start taking up a lot of space with these old dead backups that you are probably never going to use again. Being able to offload those to a separate platform or cloud storage location would be ideal."
"When it comes to performing backups, the dashboard is not intuitive and not user-friendly."
"I would love it if the solution would auto data balance within the cluster. It is possible, and eventually, it will be likely that certain nodes within the same cluster will hold more data than the other nodes."
"Rubrik can only leverage cloud storage for archiving and has no cloud failover."
"Rubrik is expensive."
"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."
"The product’s user interface needs improvement."
"Needs integration with video CD (coming in the next release) and a multi-tenant GUI."
"Improving PowerShell integration would greatly simplify Rubrik management."
"In terms of what could be improved with Rubrik, we need to improve the backup for remote sites. The competitors are stronger in terms of their remote office back up. Rubrik needs to improve to be stronger for backup. This is the main thing."
"There are some features to improve on in Rubrik. For instance, they should have a tool where we can integrate with our SAP HANA. Directly from the HANA studio, we should be able to do a backup. That's what I'm looking forward to in the future."
HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 84 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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