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, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."StarWind Virtual SAN is a highly flexible solution, as it can be deployed on physical servers or on top of virtual machines running on hypervisors such as VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"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."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"The ability to run a two-node cluster without a dedicated witness has made this an excellent product for small deployments, which is right on target for our needs in regional offices."
"It's quite easy to install."
"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."
"There is no single feature that's the most valuable. All of SimpliVity's components work together to make daily operations easier for our customers."
"The most valuable features are replication and backup."
"The setup is very easy."
"Scaling is a piece of cake. We have been able to scale up in our Asia-Pac region. We even are doing site-to-site replication of certain systems that we need to have high availability on."
"Its performance and availability are most valuable."
"I like HPE SimpliVity's hard disk compression capabilities. The data is compressed into very little space or volume. I think that the principal value of HP SimpliVity is its capacity to compress the data, and I'm saving a lot of disk space using SimpliVity."
"The compression and deduplication ratio."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"The Live Mount feature is excellent; it's useful for the backup administrator and end user."
"The solution is extremely stable. They've been phenomenal, especially for a young company."
"The main benefit is that we are secured in terms of workloads. We know that if we need to restore any VMs, or even any files inside a VM, that we will succeed 100 percent. This means that we don't need to spend much time administering the backup environment because we know it is self-healing and efficient. So, we are spending that time on something else, which is always a plus."
"The search functionality is second to none as the speed of the search is fast across the whole system and predictive."
"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."
"It has a streamlined user interface, provides an improved tech support experience, and reduces time required to locate and restore data."
"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."
"Its reporting is most valuable. I like how it reports that everything is successfully backed up. It provides a summarized report that I can give to auditors and management."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"I would love to see more vendor selection to be available for the HCA/vSAN appliances."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"We definitely want to see more of the CLI commands come up to the GUI, and it is a legitimate question, if we are going to be happy with the integration in the vsphere web client, which is awfully slow."
"SimpliVity needs to add support for Hyper-V and KVM."
"HPE SimpliVity could be more flexible and scalable. I don't feel SimpliVity is flexible or easily scalable because I still need to buy another server to add to my clusters. I can't just run or harvest and add to my solution. I need to buy another server. There are a lot of components that are not giving a lot of value to me right now. I also had a few problems with the built-in hard disk drives. I've had many issues with the harvest stripes that the servers use. Maybe it's a coincidence, but it's unusual to have a physical failure on the HPE platform. I don't see any value at the software level, especially in the software that manages that solution. I was waiting for something, especially in the application layer that I would use, but that is all over VMware, and it doesn't have an integrated module that I can use to manage the server and all the instances."
"The initial setup was complex because it was a new solution."
"I have not seen ROI."
"Scalability is something that needs to be improved because if you need more storage then you have to add more nodes."
"SimpliVity has no file server services. That's one of the solution's biggest shortcomings."
"Our customers are always looking or a discount on the product."
"Global management of multiple systems is lacking, as is reporting across multiple installed units."
"I don't like Rubrik's user interface because it's not intuitive, and I find it hard to get the information I need."
"It needs to support more applications natively, like MySQL/MariaDB."
"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."
"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."
"They need to find a solution for SMBs. It is currently only suitable for enterprises or big customers. They need to find a solution that suits SMBs."
"Collecting logs in Rubrik is very difficult compared to other tools."
"Troubleshooting failed backups is difficult, and deciphering the logs without the help of support is usually almost impossible."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 148 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 82 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, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Zerto.
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