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, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"I've been really impressed with it so far. I think it's pretty great, actually. It does exactly what we need it to do, and it does it well, so I would recommend it. Plus, the support has been very good."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"The best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"The features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"It comes all in one box."
"The compression and deduplication ratio."
"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."
"Its performance and availability are most valuable."
"The technical support is exceptionally good."
"PCX card implementation improves speed."
"It's a very nice solution. It's a complete solution that we are looking for because we don't have personnel with expertise."
"HPE SimpliVity is a very valuable and effective solution. It's also a scalable solution. As the customer requirements and application requirements increase, it can scale to accommodate them."
"The file search feature across all backups has been helpful."
"The feature that I found most valuable is Live Mount. You can either mount a virtual machine from a snapshot, or you can mount a volume from the snapshot. You can mount one disk to the server to retrieve data, or you can mount the whole VM, rename it, and use it as a test VM. If your VM gets corrupted, you just mount one from the snapshot, and you have your production VM's backup. So, Live Mount is definitely the best feature for me as an end-user."
"Instant recovery because it takes about 10 seconds to restore the VM from backup to production"
"The most valuable feature has been the Live Mount feature."
"Adaptative backup and SLAs simply allow you to tell a machine to backup without taking care of the backup window."
"The initial setup is easy."
"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."
"It works with VMware and Hyper-V without agent installation."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"StarWind Virtual SAN architecture is slightly complex and requires the team to carefully identify and study how the solution integrates with VMware vSphere."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"We don't really have any issues with this product."
"We would like the documentation to be more complete. Most items are covered, but if you don't know something, you may need to contact their support."
"The only thing that I have any difficulty with is that in order to perform upgrades, it is required that the SANs be detached from the Hosts before that can happen."
"When StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere nodes go offline unexpectedly, the nodes have to re-sync disks fully which takes a long time. We had a power failure and when both nodes came online, VMware vSphere didn't see StarWind disks before I manually re-scanned them form ESXi administration console even though it should happen automatically"
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"I think that they should have their own hyper-converged system."
"SimpliVity has this thing where if a virtual machine is on the wrong node with two nodes, it will be optimized. However, if one of the nodes won't be optimized, then it will complain about that. It will give you a little warning to say the source is not optimized. Please move this to one of the other hosts. They should just add a little thing in SimpliVity to move all the VMs to the right host, because it is a pain to load balance across the three nodes when all these VMs are complaining and you have to move them to one."
"High availability for large production environments needs to be offered."
"There is room for improvement in that there is a need for so many Federation nodes. It would help if they increased that capacity so that we didn't have to have so much hardware in our secondary site."
"The way that it handles the memory could be better."
"If there was anything I would like to see, it would be indexed backups."
"The solution's price could be lower, but it holds good value for the money. The VMware licensing costs have skyrocketed since Broadcom's takeover."
"We would like to have more security with the solution."
"I don't like Rubrik's user interface because it's not intuitive, and I find it hard to get the information I need."
"The Office 365 protection could be improved."
"We have some challenges with the solution's reporting because historical reports have some limitations."
"I hope to see enhancements in areas like data governance and the incorporation of new features in future updates."
"The integrated reporting is not really that nicely built. The reporting functionality could definitely be a little bit more customizable from an administration perspective, with an easier to understand interface."
"The price of Rubrik is too high, especially when you are considering a change in the total backup solution."
"I would love to be able to just get from the dashboard to a file that I need, or a system that I need."
"Setup is immediate but pricing is not cheap."
HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 83 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 HPE StoreVirtual, whereas Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Zerto and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain).
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