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 7 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

6.9

Number of Reviews

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Disaster Recovery as a Service (3rd)

Nutanix Disaster Recovery

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

5.3

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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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Narasimha Reddy Illuri

VMware Administrator at Infosys

Communication improvements enhance platform reliability while seamless recovery process supports application safety

I don't currently have knowledge of the best features of Nutanix Disaster Recovery. I don't have specific features in mind that are missing in Nutanix Disaster Recovery that I would like to see included in the future. I don't find Nutanix's pricing reasonable; my higher authority manages pricing discussions. I'm not aware of the pricing as it's usually handled by delivery managers and the architect team. I don't know of any disadvantages of Nutanix outside of the technical support issues previously mentioned, as I'm still comparing it with ongoing learning. I didn't face any challenges while starting to learn Nutanix Disaster Recovery; it has been straightforward. I would recommend Nutanix Disaster Recovery as there are no issues, and I ensure to explain everything regarding application safety and functionality to the application owners. On a scale of one to ten, I rate Nutanix Disaster Recovery an eight out of ten.

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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

"The documentation is good, and it can be integrated with other products."

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

"They're moving a lot of their workload to cloud and aiming for a seamlessly integrated product."

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

"The most valuable features of Azure Site Recovery are its ease of use and speed of recovery."

"Our primary use case is for disaster recovery and business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR)."

"Despite the cost concerns and downtime management, I would still recommend Azure Site Recovery."

"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."

More Azure Site Recovery pros

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cons

"Azure Site Recovery's deployment is complex. There are a lot of bugs, and it needs to improve stability."

"Recently, I worked with a mass issue related to Recovery Services Vault, and the VM support engineers are taking a lot of time to extend support to the customer."

"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."

"The flexibility of Azure Site Recovery regarding integration with different IT environments is limited; it is purely an Azure platform service for business continuity, not meant for integration with other services."

"Site Recovery's scalability could be improved."

"I would like to see more security features."

"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."

"Currently, Azure Site Recovery does not support shared disk options. Moreover, it does not support services like AppConfig or App Services."

More Azure Site Recovery cons

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

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

"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 affordable."

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

"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

16%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

24%

Real Estate/Law Firm

10%

University

10%

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?

A major advantage is that you do not want to pay any more for huge costs to build a DR site. It is very flexible and will save your cost.

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What needs improvement with Azure Site Recovery?

The flexibility of Azure Site Recovery regarding integration with different IT environments is limited; it is purely an Azure platform service for business continuity, not meant for integration wit...

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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?

I usually discuss improvements with my team who handle on-site deployments, and I plan to gather their insights. However, currently, there is nothing significant lacking in the solution as per my t...

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What is your primary use case for Nutanix Disaster Recovery?

The primary use case of Nutanix Disaster Recovery ( /products/nutanix-disaster-recovery-reviews ) is to prevent the infrastructure from a major catastrophic failure at the primary site. If the prim...

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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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