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."For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"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"
"We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"The software is easy to setup and manage, and the support is excellent."
"It integrates (fully) with VMware and Veeam, my hypervisor, and backup vendors, so for me, all the puzzle pieces simply fit and work smoothly."
"The solution has integrated backup features that are useful."
"It is just a one-stop shop, a single appliance that I can control through my virtual center."
"We really enjoy the virtualization that the solution offers."
"The most valuable features are replication and backup."
"The HyperGuarantee is unique and the accelerator card is the primary IP with the product."
"My impression is that it is a very nice solution. Very simple to use."
"The backup feature is valuable, and replication is also valuable. It is very quick and easy to use."
"The solution is scalable."
"Rubrik has brought all of our backups under a single pane of glass and made recovery extremely simple."
"I don't know if it is the best or the worst but it's very easy to install and very easy to balance. Sometimes that it's a problem because the installer of these data gets extremely scared because it's so easy. The product is easy to install, easy to balance, and easy to work with. Another really good point is the instant recovery."
"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."
"The solution is extremely stable. They've been phenomenal, especially for a young company."
"The ease of use and innovation are the features that stand out for us."
"The most valuable feature is the archive to cloud location and the automation around the PowerShell script. There are also reports and dashboards."
"The product's most valuable feature is the immutability of a backup."
"Rubrik is an easy and automatic solution that needs no manual intervention."
"I'd love to see native export of metrics (via Prometheus or something of that nature) to allow us to get more metrics available on our existing dashboard software."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"It would be nice if we could designate pools, or tiers, for storage of different speeds, and then assign rules to new VMs that would automatically place them into the proper pool."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"The solution wasn't able to connect to the cloud, and there's no micro-segmentation. The configuration of this solution is also complex."
"It is not so cheap, and this is the most common complaint that my customers have. It is a very good product, but the price is an issue in Latin America. VMware is a de facto tool. It would be useful for customers if HP can also use Red Hat or any other open-source virtualization product. Currently, you can only use VMware to manage the machines inside SimpliVity."
"I would like some reporting about backup and replication."
"I would like them to add more connection capability, a hub and spoke model, to improve the number of connections that it can handle."
"To install or to update it is more complicated than other solutions."
"The setup was complex, as it has multiple integrations with multiple orients."
"The backup and recovery process needs to be faster. Right now, it's a bit slow."
"An area for improvement would be the flexibility of server configuration."
"It is not Windows Cluster-Aware at the moment or Exchange DAG-Aware. If they add support for these particular use cases, it would be even better."
"Capacity reports could definitely be improved. It's hard to determine what is using the space and why. For instance, you can see that some host is using 2 TB on the Rubrik node and the disk space on that host is 400 GBs. It's hard to explain how there can be 2 TBs of data on local storage when nothing has changed on the host for the past three days."
"The deployment and configuration of the backup service is something that could be streamlined a little bit, particularly when you're trying to do a SQL workload. You have to install a backup service on the server. You only have to do it once and then you're done, but you have to do that on every server that you want to protect."
"Rubrik's disaster recovery capabilities could be improved."
"It is already very well furnished, but live mounts for Nutanix AHV would be amazing."
"Rubrik is expensive."
"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."
"Global management of multiple systems is lacking, as is reporting across multiple installed units."
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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