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, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"The product's core feature of virtualizing our storage is by far the most valuable."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"Before VSAN, hypervisor configuration changes and updates resulted in VM outages. Now, downtime is dramatically reduced."
"It enables us to provide more solution options for our clients, with the reassurance that, when implemented, they will be efficient and stable."
"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"The most valuable features are resiliency and data protection."
"The provisioning is very fast. It’s not a problem for us to achieve the goals of the client."
"Our storage and IT are now at an enterprise level with all the necessary controls and restrictions being enacted."
"It is easy to manage; the administration is simpler. It saves a lot of rack space in the data center because you can consolidate 20 servers into three to five nodes. The client will be able to benefit from power savings and cost savings as well."
"If you were comparing this solution to VMware, it has more features, and it's very fast on the recovery."
"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."
"Reasonably priced and easy to manage for small to medium size companies that don't have an IT department."
"There are multiple advantages. Typically, being an all-flash storage, which is available through either SimpliVity or dHCI, the performance is much better because the IOPS goes high, so it's more powerful in terms of performance. Secondly, if I'm talking of SimpliVity Hyper Convergence solution from HPE, unlike the competition, even if three hard drives fail, you are still running the solution."
"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."
"What I like the most about Rubrik is its user-friendly interface."
"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 archiving, off-of-box, is awesome. It lets you put your data where you want it and gives you the peace of mind of having more than one copy of it. And it's smart about the way that it does the archiving. It doesn't just copy one-for-one. It does all of its processing of the deduplication and compression before it sends it off to the archive, which helps with our cloud costs."
"The solution is extremely stable. They've been phenomenal, especially for a young company."
"The solution's technical support team is very responsive and proactive."
"It works with VMware and Hyper-V without agent installation."
"Rubrik's immutability feature ensures the security of our backups by preventing unauthorized alterations. The most effective feature for simplifying our data backup processes is the ability to perform on-demand or scheduled backups and restores, which greatly enhances manageability. The security and compliance features have had a positive impact on our data management practices. We utilize Rubrik not only for virtual machine backups but also for backing up approximately twenty terabytes of unstructured data, including file shares and documents. This allows users to easily restore deleted documents using the Soft Delete feature, depending on the backup frequency."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"Though I have learned some of the nuances with the upgrading of firmware/windows/etc., it would be nice to have a more efficient method of doing so."
"I had to buy upgraded support, which was not a problem, but it wasn't a prorated amount, so I paid for the support, the full upgrade, but I only got a couple of months out of it because it was only good until renewal time."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"I would like to see a more intuitive, user-friendly UI."
"Though with HPE Hyper Converged, you get everything, the documentation part is very much required, especially if you opt for the solution's subscription-based licensing model."
"The solution needs to add a module or plugin of vCenter for clear monitoring and insights."
"Its technical support services could be faster."
"The product must provide more storage capability."
"Could be more secure and more economical."
"The storage efficiency is weak and needs to be improved."
"The solution's pricing for the hardware and support could be reduced."
"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."
"Rubrik could improve in customization options for dashboards."
"With Windows, it is difficult to configure Oracle Database."
"There are some corner cases where the Rubrik Connector (Agent) still doesn't work for our clients."
"Improving PowerShell integration would greatly simplify Rubrik management."
"It is a lot more expensive than other solutions, but you get what you pay for."
"Global management of multiple systems is lacking, as is reporting across multiple installed units."
"The only thing that can be improved is catering for open source databases because at the moment it doesn't cater for Mongo, MySQL, and Postgres."
HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 10th in HCI with 34 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 83 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, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity 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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