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"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"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 product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain."
"Immediately we noticed huge performance gains, even on older hardware and once we implemented a 10GB link between both servers, the sync was near-instant after the initial sync was complete."
"The most valuable feature for us is having the ability to configure our local storage using a limited number of disks and using the StarWind VSAN software to keep the cluster nodes in perfect sync."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use and the storage virtualization layer, together with the built-in backups."
"It allows you to take advantage of the unique platform of computing, cloud management, storage, and integrated networks, as well as software-defined data management, which is easy to use. "
"It has instantaneous backup and lag-free restore. When everything is running, I can bring back a huge VM in less than 30 seconds. That's even better than Veeam."
"We can get backups faster. We have a smaller footprint for hardware, which takes up less space. So, we use less electricity and floor space."
"I find the replication feature valuable."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is the backup recovery."
"The built-in backup and quick restore are good features."
"The access, high availability, and interface are the most valuable and important for us. There is one interface for the whole product, which is very important because you have a single pane to view all the infrastructure of a customer. You can improve your data recovery plan or DRP, or you can make a special emergency plan if a disk has any problem."
"Drives the back-end through a powerful, well-documented API."
"The solution's technical support team is very responsive and proactive."
"I would rate the solution's web interface at eight out of ten. It's just fantastic and intuitive. It's so easy to use. I've never done any formal training on Rubrik, but I was able to quickly come to grips with its capabilities."
"Time dedicated to backup was drastically reduced."
"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."
"Rubrik is a faster unit from a hardware perspective. Things, like Live Mount, mean we can bring services back straightaway, then have them transition back into the live storage in the background. Because we can use Live Mount to do instant restores, a restore is now a five-minute job. Then, the rest of it is done in the background, rather than doing something for an hour before you actually get the restore back."
"Not having to specify a time to run a backup with a fixed schedule is something that's really beneficial. In the past we had to schedule and try to manually stagger things over the window, to back up everything. Because Rubrik is SLA-based, you say, "Well, I need it to fit in this window here," and it just backs it up when it's most convenient for the Brik and for the third-party system. It looks at the CPU usage and says, "Okay, it's not as busy now. I know I've got time to take the backup." That's a real advantage."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"They require more media visibility."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"The GUI deserves a little love."
"It would be great if the Linux version of the management console offered the same features as Windows."
"HPE SimpliVity should cost less."
"To install or to update it is more complicated than other solutions."
"It crashes often. When one particular VM has random, large IOPS requests, it will bog down the node, and there isn't enough time for the replica to be brought up. So all the VMs on that one particular node will essentially become offline."
"The solution could have an optimization site."
"They could have better-specialized support for more countries."
"Once I am onto the SimpliVity environment, I always have to go with HP because I am somewhat blocked, like Apple. Secondly, if I want to increase only storage, I need to buy an entire computing node for that, an entire HCI node."
"If there was anything I would like to see, it would be indexed backups."
"Deployment could be simplified and more user friendly."
"Initially, we encountered compatibility challenges with some of our technologies."
"It is already very well furnished, but live mounts for Nutanix AHV would be amazing."
"I would like to see more openness for partners to access and assist in system management. Currently, access is limited, often handled by Rubrik personnel, likely due to security concerns."
"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."
"If I could take a snapshot from a physical and be able to stand it up as a virtual immediately without the need to rebuild an entire system and restoring files, that would be HUGE."
"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."
"There are some corner cases where the Rubrik Connector (Agent) still doesn't work for our clients."
"With multiple Rubrik clusters setup in an environment, it becomes painfully obvious that this product needs a central management console."
HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 86 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 "Automates the backup and recovery process, reducing manual human errors and global search allows for granular recoveries". 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, Azure Backup and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain).
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