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."Having the ability to migrate machines live in our environment was made possible by this software."
"The ROI is great on this product."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"StarWind saved us about 80% of our storage costs over our old solution."
"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"The biggest benefit of this solution is that If you use it, you can use it for the company headquarters and also for all the branches. You use the same system, only a smaller size. With SimipliVity you can also use the included backup solution. You don't need any other solution to back up the data or to transfer it."
"The accelerator card is a lifesaver for speeding up backups."
"Our clients are very comfortable with the single management of the complete stack. The creation of VM systems is also very fast."
"The most valuable features of SimpliVity are the built-in backup and immunity to ransomware."
"The ease of managing this system."
"It is easy to set up."
"A very small package but with lots of memory and CPU."
"It's a very nice solution. It's a complete solution that we are looking for because we don't have personnel with expertise."
"The management and ease of installation are the most valuable features."
"The system is able to determine when it is the best time to do backups. This is SLA-driven, and if it is not possible to maintain this SLA, the system will tell you too."
"Live Mount is where we do the majority of our big recoveries, unless it is a file recovery. A file recovery takes a few minutes to restore to where the file in the event a file was accidentally deleted by a user, etc. There has been at least a 90 percent reduction in recovery time based on our previous solution, from the need to recover something to when it's actually recovered went from hours to minutes."
"Rubrik is an easy and automatic solution that needs no manual intervention."
"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."
"The solution's technical support team is very responsive and proactive."
"What I like about Rubrik is its strong focus on security, particularly in combating ransomware threats."
"A Google-like file search, system scaling, and a frequent development cycle are some positives that this solution offers."
"The console is something that I feel could be improved. There is nothing technically wrong with it, but it can be jazzed up and/or made to be a little more intuitive."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"I would like an automated installation/configuration despite the fact that their service is very collaborative, a customer should be able to deploy the solution by themselves."
"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."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"In the next release, they could make some graphs of the real-time loading, speed of storage, and interfaces. Of course, these can be viewed in other places. But, in the event of a malfunction or troubleshooting, this would be convenient."
"Sometimes documentation on their site can be out of date."
"I do not see the product really working in productivity at the moment with real loads."
"They could have better-specialized support for more countries."
"We have had some failures out-of-the-box. We have had some failures with the OmniStack module. One thing that we didn't fully understand was how much of the internal memory was used up by the OmniStack piece, which basically makes up SimpliVity."
"The initial setup was complex. It took a few months to integrate and adapt to the new platform."
"The technical, commercial, and marketing support is not at the level that it should be. They are not structured well. Other vendors provide better support, such as Dell."
"We definitely want to see more of the CLI commands come up to the GUI, and it is a legitimate question, if we are going to be happy with the integration in the vsphere web client, which is awfully slow."
"We had some hardware compatibility issues with the earlier versions of HPE SimpliVity. We upgraded to the latest version a few months ago, and since then, there is no hardware failure, and it is better. They don't provide a portal to create a ticket directly for the HPE SimpliVity. We have a web portal to create a ticket when we have an issue, but for HPE SimpliVity, we need to call the local vendor for support. If they are not able to resolve the issue, they contact the global support, which takes more time. Technology is moving very fast, and everybody nowadays is focusing on the cloud base. In the future, they should integrate it with the cloud base for the backup."
"The centric management could be simplified or more user-friendly."
"The customer service and support could be a bit faster."
"Rubrik can only leverage cloud storage for archiving and has no cloud failover."
"With multiple Rubrik clusters setup in an environment, it becomes painfully obvious that this product needs a central management console."
"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."
"Rubrik could improve in customization options for dashboards."
"Two areas I would like to see improvement in Rubrik are pricing and localization."
"It is a lot more expensive than other solutions, but you get what you pay for."
"The product’s user interface needs improvement."
HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 85 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, Zerto and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain).
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