We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and Rubrik based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The ROI is great on this product."
"The ProActive support gives me peace of mind because I am a one man shop, but with the technical support behind me, I feel like more than just one person. We spent two to three hours, depending on what we have to do, always on the phone, and they do not push to end the call."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"The fact that we can expand our storage and add on to our compute nodes easily and how amazing the StarWind technical support team is really adding value to our purchase."
"This solution has a very good user interface, with simple administration/management."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"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."
"Best for companies just starting out."
"It is a stable solution."
"The HPE SimpliVity disc compression is very valuable."
"I like HPE SimpliVity's hard disk compression capabilities. The data is compressed into very little space or volume. I think that the principal value of HP SimpliVity is its capacity to compress the data, and I'm saving a lot of disk space using SimpliVity."
"It's much more simple than Nutanix and other hyper-converged solutions, at least from our point of view."
"The most valuable features of SimpliVity are the built-in backup and immunity to ransomware."
"Backups happen very quickly."
"Rubrik has brought all of our backups under a single pane of glass and made recovery extremely simple."
"Rubrik can also serve as a secondary host for emergency recoveries."
"It has a good interface which is simple to navigate and utilize."
"I haven't encountered any bugs or glitches using the solution."
"Rubrik is highly scalable and is easy to do."
"One platform for instant recovery."
"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."
"The solution is extremely stable. They've been phenomenal, especially for a young company."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"It would be helpful if StarWind provided more precise and detailed documentation explaining how to configure the solution in various scenarios, including the advantages and disadvantages of each."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"I'd prefer it if a remote console was provided."
"There needs to be a simple process for migrating one SimpliVity cluster to a new SimpliVity cluster."
"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."
"We would like to have more security with the solution."
"The initial setup was complex. It took a few months to integrate and adapt to the new platform."
"The installation is quite easy but it could still be improved."
"The initial setup was a little complex because we were in the first version, fresh releases."
"It's a very complex installation. It's gotten easier, however, it's far from a double click on a link and a self-upgrade scenario. There's still an awful lot of magic that goes down to doing upgrades."
"HPE SimpliVity should cost less."
"I would like for unmanaged backups to be able to be saved in a separate policy."
"Better integration for complex NAS structures having to mount at root adds time and workload to the process of NDMP."
"It is already very well furnished, but live mounts for Nutanix AHV would be amazing."
"I would like to see Rubrik better integrate with Microsoft Active Directory. Instead of just backing up a full domain controller, I would like the solution to have Active Directory object knowledge so we can restore specific objects in Active Directory versus restoring the whole domain controller."
"Looking at how the data is broken down, we can see the total story, but sometimes it's difficult to see how big a particular snapshot is. Across 90 days of snapshots, which one is a particularly large one? Looking at the data holistically could be a lot easier."
"There is room for improvement in pricing. After the licensing, the price tends to go up as time goes by."
"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."
"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 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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