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, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"The best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"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."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"The Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"The most valuable feature I have found to be the Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV)."
"It has been stable so far."
"The stability is good. This is the number-one product in that regard."
"The most valuable features are easy cloud administration and management."
"In addition to the hyper-converged infrastructure, most of our clients are pleased with Acropolis' built-in replication in terms of the DR setup. Our clients also like Prism Central's advanced management and analytics, and many find Nutanix Flow and playbooks incredibly useful."
"The best feature of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is the central management of all of our resources. Additionally, it is easy to use"
"It is 100% stable. It's the most stable infrastructure that we have."
"The technology of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is the most valuable feature. You don't need multiple screens to manage."
"It has also saved us time managing backups. It's pretty stable. So it sends us a report if something goes wrong, then you get a report. You don't really need to manually monitor this software over time. If something happens, you'll get an error and you'll get an email notification and then address it. We found the product pretty stable if it's configured correctly. So it has reduced management time."
"We have a great success rate for backups with Rubrik and because of the ease of automating tasks, we also run periodical restores to check the quality of the backups."
"Automation functions, image based backup, and the ability to instantly recover anything from files to databases."
"They have a great PowerShell module and easy mediums to speak to the people who create and enhance them."
"Time dedicated to backup was drastically reduced."
"Rubrik is stable and easy to use."
"Rubrik simplifies our data backup and recovery processes significantly. It's very straightforward to use. We start by tagging through VMware, and everything tagged for Rubrik is backed up automatically. Backups are much better and faster because Rubrik takes a full snapshot of the virtual machine. We recently conducted a verification by performing a restore, and even during the restore process, we could bring up the server in less than 10-15 minutes. Additionally, we have set up alerts for sensitive data, which helps us track data."
"I value the options it has for storage tiering (i.e. whether it should be a flash, SSD, or pushed to the cloud) depending on the data provided."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"For improvement, I would like to see how the software determines which networks to use for which purpose. It seems like the naming terminology changes a bit from here to there."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"Deployment could be more user-friendly - currently, it requires certain skills with the network and nodes."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve by having an auto-update feature. At this time I have to update each system manually. However, I bought the standard license and I did not buy the maximum license they have available. There could be a certain license that does the updates automatically."
"To have internal stability, we needed to network the solution ourselves. Performance depends on the application. Performance could be the lack of IOPS, memory and CPU and configuration issues."
"Could have better visibility with the main OEM backup integrators."
"Pricing and varieties of options could be better."
"I would like them to update their licensing to provide more features with their basic license."
"In the next release of this solution, they could improve by being more competitive with VMware. I would like all third-party solutions to work well with Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"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."
"I would like to have a built-in index searching ability of files/system files within the Rubrik interface to determine if a file or item exists, rather than just recovering it, and then doing a search for the file afterwards."
"Needs integration with video CD (coming in the next release) and a multi-tenant GUI."
"Setup is immediate but pricing is not cheap."
"It is an expensive product."
"Rubrik's disaster recovery capabilities could be improved."
"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."
"I would like to see more openness for partners to access and assist in system management. Currently, access is limited, often handled by Rubrik personnel, likely due to security concerns."
"It is a lot more expensive than other solutions, but you get what you pay for."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 83 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 Dell PowerFlex, whereas Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Zerto and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain).
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