We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Rubrik based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."We are running Hyper-V on twin servers in failover, and being able to manage servers from anywhere I need to, virtually, has been a game changer."
"It has reduced our overall maintenance and overhead by having to only maintain physical boxes for one cluster instead of having to manage physical boxes for two clusters."
"The solution is also quite flexible. As an example, other vSAN solutions that we looked at had more stringent requirements regarding mixed HDD/SSD storage which wouldn't have worked in our environment."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"The management interface on the software is very simple. It is insanely simple compared to most SANs. The interface is also powerful when used to complete tasks that an IT administrator needs to complete."
"Acropolis has a great interface and lots of management features packaged with it at an affordable price."
"It's quite easy to scale, and you have the option to have distributed nodes everywhere around the world that work as one. You can also have a solution for small branch offices with only two nodes for redundancy, and that's good enough to start."
"Flexibility. We're able to mix performance nodes with storage nodes easily. Unlike other vendors where, if we start a hyperconverged solution with them, we have to stick to a specific model, to a specific series with specific capabilities, with Nutanix it's very easy to mix and match the best solution, especially for a dynamic infrastructure like ours."
"They have one of the best technical supports in my experience."
"The speed of the operations and of creation of VM is fantastic."
"What I like the most are the high-availability and scalability."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is easy to use, it is a great platform."
"The most valuable features are the user-friendly dashboard and that we don't need to move resources manually when adding new nodes into running clusters."
"Rubrik is highly scalable and is easy to do."
"The solution's technical support team is very responsive and proactive."
"Rubrik has made the process to manage backup and recovery painless. This frees up more time to work on other projects."
"The Auto-Snapshot SLA feature and recovery time are amazing. It took seven seconds to have a server back up and running in production from a total failure."
"We had some VMware issue as VMware did some changes on the AHCI drivers. Rubrik saved our environment those times."
"A reduced infrastructure complexity and fast to rack and go."
"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 main benefit is that we are secured in terms of workloads. We know that if we need to restore any VMs, or even any files inside a VM, that we will succeed 100 percent. This means that we don't need to spend much time administering the backup environment because we know it is self-healing and efficient. So, we are spending that time on something else, which is always a plus."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"The main issue we ran into was the documentation. We attempted to set up the product in our test environment by ourselves and ran into several areas of the documentation that were unclear to us."
"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."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"They have offered some new features that I have not deployed so I assume that these issues might have been addressed already, but, at my time there was a networking problem."
"One of the improvements I would like to have is related to naming. It is getting confusing because they are using three-letter acronyms, which are more or less misleading. What I do not like is that they changed names and reused names. They had a meaning in the past and they are still using the names for something similar."
"Nutanix now supports four hypervisors but they are not all at feature parity."
"We'd like to have more resource management."
"The ability to create clusters faster would be nice to see in a future release."
"The scalability of the solution had some issues because there were many VMs and the replication ran into some bottlenecks. It was an issue that was known to Nutanix and it was not disclosed to the customer."
"It would be great if it could emulate some of the features that their competitor VMware has, for example port mirroring or Netflow output at hypervisor level."
"I would have liked it if Nutanix were a hardware as well as a software platform."
"In terms of what could be improved with Rubrik, we need to improve the backup for remote sites. The competitors are stronger in terms of their remote office back up. Rubrik needs to improve to be stronger for backup. This is the main thing."
"The recovery of Oracle databases is too complicated. It is not something that helps the DBA, the Database Administrator, but it should be done by the backup person like many other solutions. Everything is ready for the DBA to recover the database. It is a way of doing things, but I don't think you should give the backup people the ability to do it."
"There is room for improvement in pricing. After the licensing, the price tends to go up as time goes by."
"There could be better reporting and better filtering."
"Pricing is something that needs to be considered for improvement."
"It is a lot more expensive than other solutions, but you get what you pay for."
"We have some challenges with the solution's reporting because historical reports have some limitations."
"Could be improved from an analytics point of view."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 82 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Rubrik is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Easy to use with minimal training required, innovative, good support". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V, whereas Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Zerto and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain).
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