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 for vSphere is a software-defined storage solution that has reduced administration time for storage. It's pretty straightforward to install and setup it and so far it has been robust and worked as advertised from StarWind."
"It also provides a high degree of mobility, as the virtual SAN can be moved relatively painlessly between on-site devices and the cloud."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"The best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"PowerShell library is pretty good feature as I created with APC PowerChute a script to put volumes on maintenance mode then turning off the StarWind nodes together with the VM and Hosts when UPS reaches 15 percent, this way after a blackout or electrical problems when turning servers on again, there is no issues for syncing or data loss due to energy interrupts."
"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."
"Disaster Recovery (DR) with very minimal effort."
"Among the valuable features are that it's a complete solution, it's easy to use, and there is not a lot of management time involved in operating the solution."
"The solution has eliminated the need for overprovisioning. It is designed to take advantage of deduplication strategies, which means we don't have to have as much disk in the system to do the job that we used to have to do."
"Valuable features include ease of use, disaster recovery, and reliability."
"We have not had any problem with customer support at SimpliVity."
"As a point for optimization on our infrastructure, it works great for us."
"The ability to backup our data without requiring additional storage media or software application was a huge gain."
"Looking at the way that our infrastructure team works now, we don't think about infrastructure, storage, or compute anymore. The solution just works. It is same with the backup and replication side of things, as it just works on schedule. We don't have to manage it tightly, like we used to."
"In the event of any issues or questions, the support is top-notch. We rarely need to use support, but when they are needed, they are always quick to respond and very knowledgeable."
"Takes me 80 percent less time to manage my backup environment."
"Automation functions, image based backup, and the ability to instantly recover anything from files to databases."
"In terms of usage, Rubrik has allowed us to retrieve data 80 to 90 percent faster than our previous technology."
"Replaces legacy tapes and disk backups which are unreliable, expensive and space consuming."
"Rubrik is an easy and automatic solution that needs no manual intervention."
"The management and ease of installation are the most valuable features."
"It has also saved us time managing backups. It's pretty stable. So it sends us a report if something goes wrong, then you get a report. You don't really need to manually monitor this software over time. If something happens, you'll get an error and you'll get an email notification and then address it. We found the product pretty stable if it's configured correctly. So it has reduced management time."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"If there are domain controllers inside the cluster, there needs to be some sort of logic allowing them to boot independently so all the rest of the domain clients can gain the authority they need to come online."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"Integration with external solutions outside the HPE posed challenges."
"We should have something called micro segmentation inside the SimpliVity box, which can be easily implemented."
"I would like them to add more connection capability, a hub and spoke model, to improve the number of connections that it can handle."
"The biggest feature, which should be included, is some method to handle archival backup or cloud-based backup. Where SimpliVIty typically falls down with their data structure is: The longer a backup is kept, the more space it ends up inevitably using. When you get into things that you have to keep for five or seven years for legal requirements or regulatory compliance, then you start taking up a lot of space with these old dead backups that you are probably never going to use again. Being able to offload those to a separate platform or cloud storage location would be ideal."
"In terms of what I would define as a perfect solution, I am looking for one that is easy to manage, has a real user-friendly interface, and something that is not too complex."
"I can say that the support was better when it was a separate company, when it was SimpliVity. But, now with HPE it has not been quite as good. B"
"It would be better if we could deploy a hybrid cloud integrated to SimpliVity."
"I would love it if the solution would auto data balance within the cluster. It is possible, and eventually, it will be likely that certain nodes within the same cluster will hold more data than the other nodes."
"Global management of multiple systems is lacking, as is reporting across multiple installed units."
"Troubleshooting failed backups is difficult, and deciphering the logs without the help of support is usually almost impossible."
"The Office 365 protection could be improved."
"Two areas I would like to see improvement in Rubrik are pricing and localization."
"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."
"We would like to be able to do granular restores directly from Exchange. Also, more granular management of VM backups would help."
"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."
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 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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