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 failover protection and the ability to expand storage and nodes with no downtime are by far the best physical features we have benefited from."
"The product creates opportunities with hybrid on-premise solutions."
"StarWind vSAN has a lot of great features and is a perfect solution for mirroring internal disks and flash between servers."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"The management was very easy and I was able to find all that I need in the software dashboard."
"The solution offers easy one-click PowerShell scripts that are ready to run."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"It is a scalable solution."
"One of the solution's strong points is the deduplication capabilities of SimpliVity."
"The HPE Hyper Converged solution is used in a hybrid cloud configuration. We assess the disk space and partition additional capacity."
"We like the fact that the hyper-converged infrastructure provides a simple to grow, easy to configure platform."
"It provides unmatched performance, productivity and reliability."
"No concerns or issues with stability."
"Hyper-convergence is the most valuable aspect of the solution. We can avoid downtime when there's maintenance or updates needed. Also, we have homogenous hardware, so we have a lot of trust in the solution's reliability."
"If you were comparing this solution to VMware, it has more features, and it's very fast on the 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."
"Rubrik has improved our organization by minimizing downtime."
"The product's most valuable feature is the immutability of a backup."
"The security and the ransomware protection are most valuable."
"This is a centralized tool where we are able to schedule backups and perform monitoring."
"There is a live-restore feature, their Live Mount, and the way it works we can instantly recover a VM, a past backup, to be directly attached to our VMware environment. Rubrik will act as a disk for it. It's like an instant restore. Within a few minutes our VM is up and running. And then, if we want to restore it, we can just migrate it to our actual storage."
"Disk mount that lets a restore happen immediately, no need to re-hydrate."
"Rubrik has led to improvement by reducing the amount of failed backups, leading to a reduced workload in IT operations."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"Scaling the product is fairly easy except for the computing aspect. It would entail another appliance. While not a show stopper, it isn't as easy as dropping in a few extra SSDs."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"Its technical support services could be faster."
"Could be more secure and more economical."
"The software version on the HC380s we are using is version 1. It does not support spanned vCenter which we use since we have multiple sites."
"Providing local technical support and improving the price are areas this service needs to consider improving."
"I would like to see a more intuitive, user-friendly UI."
"A software-only version of the solution, without the hardware, would be nice."
"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."
"Installation and setup could be easier."
"I would like to have a built-in index searching ability of files/system files within the Rubrik interface to determine if a file or item exists, rather than just recovering it, and then doing a search for the file afterwards."
"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."
"Pricing is something that needs to be considered for improvement."
"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."
"We have some challenges with the solution's reporting because historical reports have some limitations."
"If there was something that we could get Rubrik to fix, it would be when our DBS takes snapshots of a server or the database, the replication doesn't kick off fast enough. They can't remote it to the peer site and manipulate it back up in order to move it over, take a copy of production, slap it over, and test it out. As I understand, they are working on it. Replication works. We also get spoiled by how good things are now. We get to a point where it is so easy but when something isn't instant gratification, it seems that everything else is so amazing, why isn't this right?"
"It needs more storage array integration options and an easier restore for files that download using a browser."
"Two areas I would like to see improvement in Rubrik are pricing and localization."
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HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 10th in HCI with 33 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, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Zerto.
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