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, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"Highly available storage is the most valuable feature. The entire rollout is hyper-converged and requires no extra storage further than the hosts in which Hyper-V is running. Another feature that has been great is the support from StarWind in general. We have their proactive support package on the main cluster that employs Starwind Virtual SAN."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"What I really like about this program, is that it needs little space and it works really fast, so it saves us time."
"One of the solution's strong points is the deduplication capabilities of SimpliVity."
"I've found the data protection features the most valuable."
"The scalability of this tool is very good. You can basically add more storage and seamlessly expand the current storage that you have."
"One of the good features would be the fast backup solution Hyper Converged offers, which is more efficient compared to other vendors."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The provisioning is very fast. It’s not a problem for us to achieve the goals of the client."
"The most valuable features are resiliency and data protection."
"The archiving, off-of-box, is awesome. It lets you put your data where you want it and gives you the peace of mind of having more than one copy of it. And it's smart about the way that it does the archiving. It doesn't just copy one-for-one. It does all of its processing of the deduplication and compression before it sends it off to the archive, which helps with our cloud costs."
"Rubrik is an easy and automatic solution that needs no manual intervention."
"ubrik's One-Touch Recovery helps address this. Using backup as a migration tool can also help overcome challenges when moving to a hybrid cloud."
"Time dedicated to backup was drastically reduced."
"The web interface is user-friendly, clean, and it provides a good summary of what you're protecting at a glance."
"Instant recovery is a good feature."
"The solution’s ransomware recovery, from a security perspective, is one of the biggest features of the product. We don't have to worry about the operational complexity of air-gapped backups and can rely more on the immutability approach. It is a highly valued feature in this solution."
"Rubrik is highly scalable and is easy to do."
"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."
"It took a bit of knowledge and support to put in place but once installed it works fine. Migration (HyperV) from one server to another sometimes takes longer than expected but there is no data loss even if the host crashes."
"They require more media visibility."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"I did not see any indication that StarWinds vSAN is a usable solution with non-GUI instances of Hyper-V."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"Though with HPE Hyper Converged, you get everything, the documentation part is very much required, especially if you opt for the solution's subscription-based licensing model."
"The solution's pricing for the hardware and support could be reduced."
"Its technical support services could be faster."
"In my country, the biggest issue is probably pricing."
"One problem I've had is that I was trying to do a move and it was not working. I was given an error and a message asking me to shut down the machine first and then move it to another host."
"Scalability is an issue because it becomes very expensive. When you need to upgrade memory, you have to upgrade memory across the nodes. Suppose a customer has gone with a three-node HCI solution, then to increase the memory, you have to do it across the three nodes."
"Some improvement is required in the availability of the data and performance. The solution is too expensive for our customers. The pricing should be lower."
"One of the things that can be improved is that today, is supporting VMware, maybe as a hypervisor. But it would be good to have an open kind of platform for other hypervisors, maybe. Like Nutanix is doing, it's very open."
"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."
"We have some challenges with the solution's reporting because historical reports have some limitations."
"There are some corner cases where the Rubrik Connector (Agent) still doesn't work for our clients."
"It needs more storage array integration options and an easier restore for files that download using a browser."
"Lacks availability in a NFR format of virtual appliances to test them in public cloud environment."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in pricing. After the licensing, the price tends to go up as time goes by."
"I have a personal want which might not necessarily make sense with Rubrik as a company or Rubrik as a software, but it'd be really nice if they could also handle things like item-level backups and restores of Active Directory objects and DNS and DCP objects."
HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 10th in HCI with 34 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 86 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 "Automates the backup and recovery process, reducing manual human errors and global search allows for granular recoveries". HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, 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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