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, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The StarWind Virtual SAN provides a clever and unique solution to the Computing Split Brain problem."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"It provides shared storage to multiple hypervisor hosts. Times had changed, however. StarWind Virtual SAN is the “software replaces hardware” for SAN. We have access control and CCTV systems up and running using Microsoft clustering and shared storage"
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"The solution has good backup resolution updates."
"The most valuable feature was its time to delivery."
"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."
"Hyper Converge is easier to manage and performs better than traditional infrastructure."
"It is a stable solution...Those who want flexibility, ease of use, and a simple support system can opt for HPE."
"It provides unmatched performance, productivity and reliability."
"The product enables me to use any software or database."
"No concerns or issues with stability."
"The web-based approach is the most valuable feature."
"The solution’s ransomware recovery, from a security perspective, is one of the biggest features of the product. We don't have to worry about the operational complexity of air-gapped backups and can rely more on the immutability approach. It is a highly valued feature in this solution."
"Also, the web interface is really great. The design, from a user-experience standpoint, is really straightforward and easy to use... they nailed it. Usually, from the very first panel, the dashboard that you land on after login, you've got most of your functionality right around where you need it to be. You've got your new items on the left, you've got your support on the top right. Nothing really seems out of place or just stuck in someplace."
"Intelligent agent technology."
"Disk mount that lets a restore happen immediately, no need to re-hydrate."
"Takes me 80 percent less time to manage my backup environment."
"Product support team is excellent, with issues typically being resolved on the same day."
"Rubrik is an easy and automatic solution that needs no manual intervention."
"The documentation is good yet is still lacking in a few areas."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"The console is something that I feel could be improved. There is nothing technically wrong with it, but it can be jazzed up and/or made to be a little more intuitive."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"It would be helpful to have a little more insight into what kind of performance the VSAN cluster is utilizing; something that would be more proactive on our side, versus their ProActive Support."
"I would like to see more deduplication."
"Data protection and optimization: It is really weak. They do not offer deduplication or compression."
"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."
"The solution would be better served if it integrated with other solutions better."
"Its technical support services could be faster."
"If the solution could further compress the data, it would use less storage."
"A software-only version of the solution, without the hardware, would be nice."
"The solution needs to add a module or plugin of vCenter for clear monitoring and insights."
"The recovery of Oracle databases is too complicated. It is not something that helps the DBA, the Database Administrator, but it should be done by the backup person like many other solutions. Everything is ready for the DBA to recover the database. It is a way of doing things, but I don't think you should give the backup people the ability to do it."
"Looking at how the data is broken down, we can see the total story, but sometimes it's difficult to see how big a particular snapshot is. Across 90 days of snapshots, which one is a particularly large one? Looking at the data holistically could be a lot easier."
"I want to see more features regarding filtering in the Snapshot Window, as I need to be able to set a filter for specific dates and times. If I want to check an old backup, I must scroll through one or two years of backups to find what I'm looking for."
"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."
"User interface could be improved."
"It is an expensive product."
"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."
"A singular system is needed to manage all of the clusters."
HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 11th in HCI with 34 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 82 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, HPE SimpliVity, Dell PowerFlex 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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