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."You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS\SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage."
"It has great free trials that allow end users to test a large variety of their products before deciding to buy the full product."
"Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"The ability to run the software virtually on every virtualization platform and the ability to eliminate all storage vendor locking are the most valuable features."
"The StarWind tech support is extremely helpful, especially during the initial setup."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"It has lessened our burden on multiple different products, so they are under one umbrella. This has been economically good."
"Its performance and availability are most valuable."
"Its simplicity is most valuable. The management is easy, and you don't have to have a lot of knowledge about storage, network, etc. It is simple to manage and simple to implement, and that's its key feature."
"Up scaling is very possible, and at any time it is scalable."
"The main thing is its performance. In terms of performance, it is a lot better than VMware. Obviously, technology is changing a lot all the time. We were on just VMware with a separate attached array. The performance was kind of a step backward from just running separate servers. Now, the performance is much better, and we can take snapshots and backups of really big servers in just a matter of seconds. We can even restore them in a matter of seconds."
"Valuable features include ease of use, disaster recovery, and reliability."
"The most valuable feature is that the product has an inborn backup."
"The ability to manage the environment without special consoles or interfaces is a plus."
"Rubrik can also serve as a secondary host for emergency recoveries."
"What I like the most about Rubrik is its user-friendly interface."
"Intelligent agent technology."
"The file search feature across all backups has been helpful."
"The solution is stable."
"Rubrik is stable and easy to use."
"The ease of use and innovation are the features that stand out for us."
"When it comes to saving time managing our backups, Rubrik has saved us a lot of time compared to what we were using. It feels like it has saved us lifetimes of time because the process used to be difficult. It's not just the day to time savings. When something goes wrong, that's where the real time savings comes into play. We are able to get back to where we need to be more confidently and with much fewer steps."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"The main issue we ran into was the documentation. We attempted to set up the product in our test environment by ourselves and ran into several areas of the documentation that were unclear to us."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"The GUI deserves a little love."
"I did not see any indication that StarWinds vSAN is a usable solution with non-GUI instances of Hyper-V."
"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."
"I would like to see it be a truly hybrid-cloud solution where I could take my on-prem SimpliVity environment and have replication to a cloud install."
"Once I am onto the SimpliVity environment, I always have to go with HP because I am somewhat blocked, like Apple. Secondly, if I want to increase only storage, I need to buy an entire computing node for that, an entire HCI node."
"High availability for large production environments needs to be offered."
"The product is expensive."
"Its price can be improved. Customers always look for better prices. It is more expensive as compared to other products available in the market."
"The initial setup was a little complex because we were in the first version, fresh releases."
"I would like some reporting about backup and replication."
"The interface is still slightly clunky and has room for improvement. They do work with us whenever we mention anything that needs to be done or anything that we want. We find that bringing up the management interface is a little slow and not as intuitive as we would like, but it's been getting better as it evolves."
"I would love to be able to just get from the dashboard to a file that I need, or a system that I need."
"Rubrik can only leverage cloud storage for archiving and has no cloud failover."
"The Office 365 protection could be improved."
"The price of Rubrik is too high, especially when you are considering a change in the total backup solution."
"The solution's reporting feature could be better."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I need to create reports to know whether something is available or not, how much frontend data is being protected, etc. Rubrik gives a lot of things in the report, which can be confusing. It isn't very easy to get reports. It shows all the backup, index, replication, and everything else in one report. So, I have to export, filter, and then do the calculations."
"Collecting logs in Rubrik is very difficult compared to other tools."
HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 149 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 Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, whereas Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Zerto and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain).
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