Azure Site Recovery vs Nutanix Disaster Recovery comparison

Microsoft and Nutanix are both solutions in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category. Additionally, 92% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Nutanix users who would recommend it.

Azure Site Recovery

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92% willing to recommend

Nutanix Disaster Recovery

Read 6 Nutanix Disaster Recovery reviews

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Azure Site Recovery and Nutanix Disaster Recovery based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Disaster Recovery (DR) Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Categories and Ranking

Azure Site Recovery

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

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Disaster Recovery as a Service (2nd)

Nutanix Disaster Recovery

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

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Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (21st)

Featured Reviews

RituparnaBhattacharya

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at MIC Global

The time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes

First of all, we initially faced a challenge as Azure Site Recovery was not supporting shared disk options on SQL clusters with VMs, which are important for a Windows cluster mode. Additionally, the setup is quite easy, only requiring the creation of a vault. Its time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes.

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Celso Toledo

Senior Infrastructure Manager, Information Technology at Pediatrix

A reliable and scalable solution that can be used to ensure workloads are replicated when needed

A couple of years back, our data center was located in Fort Lauderdale, known as Hurricane Alley. We would swing our workloads or production data center into our Dallas data center from July the first until the whole hurricane season. Once hurricane season was done, we would swing everything back to South Florida on November the first. Currently, we have a state-of-the-art data center in Ashburn, Virginia. Since it is a location with no hurricanes, we've got less movement from a failing-over perspective. From a compliance perspective, we need to show our compliance partners that we can cut over a data center should we need to and run out of a different data center somewhere else. This is necessary for compliance, insurance, and HIPAA compliance.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"We use the solution across hospitality and healthcare domains. We use it for custom development. It helps us develop a seamless omnichannel for the healthcare industry."

"We use the tool for business continuity purposes."

"Azure Site Recovery's automated file synchronization was a game-changer in managing legacy systems."

"Azure Site Recovery is an easy-to-use and fairly stable solution for disaster recovery."

"The most valuable feature is the visibility of what is happening with our business as well as the good reporting and dashboards."

"What I like best about Azure Site Recovery is that it's easier to use because my organization already has Azure as an Active Directory solution."

"What I love about Azure Site Recovery is its simplicity for basic configurations."

"You can create automation to move workloads and redirect traffic to another region."

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"The initial setup of Nutanix Disaster Recovery is straightforward and easy."

"Nutanix Disaster Recovery needs to have a feature that can automate manual tasks."

"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Disaster Recovery is the local storage solution, which significantly boosts performance, especially when transitioning from traditional architecture."

"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Disaster Recovery is the reliability and scalability of being able to swing our workloads across the country."

"Nutanix Disaster Recovery can be used for snapshots, backup, and disaster recovery."

"The product is very simple and very easy to use."

Cons

"It is for site-to-site replication. When something goes wrong on your site, you only get 15 minutes before it also goes wrong on your replicated site. There should be some way to be able to say that we want to restore it, but we want to restore it to the version from yesterday. It should support versioning. I would also like to see real-time scanning for advanced threat protection, more straightforward billing, and quicker turnaround on the tech support."

"Could have more integration with other platforms."

"We need to be able to move the virtual servers and not build and then port them across. They need to improve the hypervisor."

"One area for improvement with Azure is helping customers predict usage more accurately."

"The system did go down a couple of times, which impacted our operations. For stability, I would rate it a seven out of ten."

"The product's performance is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"Azure Site Recovery does not support shared disk options."

"When it runs, it runs well but when it doesn't run, the solution needs to make it clearer as to why and what the troubleshooting process is. All this would be possible if the error logging was streamlined a bit."

More Azure Site Recovery cons

"The solution's bandwidth utilization can be improved further."

"Nutanix Disaster Recovery needs to have a feature that can automate manual tasks."

"The solution should include a standard license for the object level and file level."

"The dashboard could be a bit refreshed, and some configuration parts could be less confusing."

"The major issue with Nutanix is its appliance-based model, which can lead to vendor lock-in."

"The product must allow users to create a production domain on the main site in one hypervisor and a backup site on another."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Azure Site Recovery is affordable."

"I'm not sure about the Azure Site Recovery pricing, but my organization gets monthly bills from providers."

"The tool is expensive. What is expensive to me might not be expensive to you. As I mentioned, we seek ways to reduce our costs. If the price goes down, that would be great. I rate the tool's pricing a six out of ten."

"Azure Site Recovery is neither very expensive nor very cheap."

"It should have more straightforward billing. The billing was what got funky. It was really cheap. We would pay based on the usage. We paid around $225 a month for site-to-site replication."

"They have a license to pay."

"The tool's licensing is yearly and not expensive."

"Azure Site Recovery is a very reasonably priced product."

"The solution’s pricing is good."

"Nutanix Disaster Recovery is a cheap solution."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

26%

Real Estate/Law Firm

11%

Energy/Utilities Company

Mining And Metals Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Azure Site Recovery?

Azure Site Recovery allows my company to save around 30 percent of the time on every VM that we need to back up and restore.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Site Recovery?

The pricing of Azure Site Recovery is around a four out of ten, being somewhat cost-effective. Microsoft frequently restructures their pricing, causing us to adjust packages and subscriptions, whic...

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What needs improvement with Azure Site Recovery?

There is room for improvement in the release of patches, such as ensuring they are properly managed to avoid outages. The support help desk needs to improve escalation procedures. Azure ( /products...

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What do you like most about Nutanix Disaster Recovery?

Nutanix Disaster Recovery can be used for snapshots, backup, and disaster recovery.

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What needs improvement with Nutanix Disaster Recovery?

Currently, it is too early to tell if there are areas for improvement since I have just started using the solution. However, the dashboard could be a bit refreshed, and some configuration parts cou...

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What is your primary use case for Nutanix Disaster Recovery?

I use Nutanix Disaster Recovery for the application purpose and not for the database purpose. I have just started it and configured it for the replication of data, with plans to invoke the disaster...

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Overview

Help your business to keep doing business - even during major IT outages. Azure Site Recovery offers ease of deployment, cost effectiveness, and dependability. Deploy replication, failover, and recovery processes through Site Recovery to help keep your applications running during planned and unplanned outages. Site Recovery is a native disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS), and Microsoft been recognized as a leader in DRaaS based on completeness of vision and ability to execute by Gartner in the 2018 Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service.

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Nutanix Disaster Recovery is a natively integrated DR solution that helps organizations stay prepared in the face of a disaster while minimizing data loss and downtime.

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Sample Customers

Russell Reynolds Associates, Union Insurance, Rackspace

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