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."The failover protection and the ability to expand storage and nodes with no downtime are by far the best physical features we have benefited from."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"The Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"The most valuable aspect of Nutanix is the performance of the storage, which is excellent. And controlling compute, storage, the network, and security all together in one box is very efficient for us. It gives us a single platform to manage our all infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature is the integration of all parts in Prism Element, the browser-based management tool."
"This is a complete, very user-friendly product."
"It is less expensive than VMware products. It is also a little bit more flexible, but it really comes down to price for us."
"It is easy to use. One of the things they have as a design goal is to reduce complexity and simplify things."
"The flexibility of this system is very good. It's also faster than others, and has skilled technical support who showed more initiative than a competitor, e.g. VMware."
"Some of the most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis are that it's free from Nutanix and it's very stable."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it has centralized management."
"The feature that I have found most valuable from Rubrik is its protection against ransomware attacks. Rubrik is a very nice, very good solution because it is able to protect your data and you have the possibility from the backup to detect any abnormal behavior, like a ransomware attack. You are able to detect and restore very easily with this solution. This is a major differentiator in comparison to the other competitors."
"The security and the ransomware protection are most valuable."
"The feature that I found most valuable is Live Mount. You can either mount a virtual machine from a snapshot, or you can mount a volume from the snapshot. You can mount one disk to the server to retrieve data, or you can mount the whole VM, rename it, and use it as a test VM. If your VM gets corrupted, you just mount one from the snapshot, and you have your production VM's backup. So, Live Mount is definitely the best feature for me as an end-user."
"The product's most valuable feature is the immutability of a backup."
"The Live Mount feature is excellent; it's useful for the backup administrator and end user."
"Rubrik is stable and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature has been the Live Mount feature."
"The solution is stable."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"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."
"While StarWind.com excels in numerous areas, there are a couple of notable functionalities that it currently lacks. One of these is duplication, which could be an invaluable feature for data redundancy and backup purposes. The ability to duplicate data across different storage locations can be crucial for safeguarding against data loss, and its absence is a minor limitation in an otherwise stellar offering."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"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."
"The platform needs to improve user management and the web console."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"There should be a little more access to Nutanix files."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's cloud platform management software could be improved so that I can manage my load between the cloud and on-premises."
"The name of the solutions offered by Nutanix does not indicate what the tool does."
"The software-defined networking should be improved. It is quite substandard as compared to the VMware variant. The software-defined networking is quite limited, and we usually use other products to do that. We're aware that Nutanix is working on that and will be coming out with better solutions, and we can't wait because to do a fully software-defined architecture, the abstraction layer needs not only software-defined storage, which you have, but also the software-defined networking piece."
"The scalability of Nutanix Acropolis AOS needs improvement."
"In a hybrid cloud setup, we should be able to port our floors from on-premises to the public cloud and from the public cloud to on-premises."
"Setup can be a little difficult"
"The price could be lower."
"The main pain points we experienced was the stability of the system. We received a lot of instability when we have upgraded from a certain version to a new version. The newer version was completely filled with bugs and we needed to purge the system every week until we update to a newer version that was available one year later. The stability of the code is the main problem, they need to make it better."
"Rubrik is expensive."
"I want to see more features regarding filtering in the Snapshot Window, as I need to be able to set a filter for specific dates and times. If I want to check an old backup, I must scroll through one or two years of backups to find what I'm looking for."
"Could be improved from an analytics point of view."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I need to create reports to know whether something is available or not, how much frontend data is being protected, etc. Rubrik gives a lot of things in the report, which can be confusing. It isn't very easy to get reports. It shows all the backup, index, replication, and everything else in one report. So, I have to export, filter, and then do the calculations."
"I would like to see more information on encryption with the next release."
"Pricing is something that needs to be considered for improvement."
"It would be nice if they could work on the pricing a bit."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 75 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 3rd in Backup and Recovery with 20 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Rubrik is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "What you might not know about Nutanix that makes it so unique". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Allows us to restore a VM in minutes and has the best ransomware detection and support". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series, whereas Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Commvault Complete Data Protection and Zerto.
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