Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup vs Zerto comparison

Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Zerto and Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup are both popular solutions in the data backup and disaster recovery market. Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup’s features are more appreciated by users, but Zerto provides a smoother user experience overall.

Features: Zerto users value its continuous data protection and disaster recovery capabilities, citing reliability and speed. Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup users value its hyperconverged infrastructure and advanced automation, which simplifies operations and improves efficiency. Nutanix Mine Integration appears to have a slight edge due to its streamlined operations and automation.

Room for Improvement:Zerto users suggest improvements in ease of use and reporting functionalities. Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup users call for better scalability options and enhanced customer support. Both products have areas needing polish, but Nutanix's scalability and support concerns are more emphasized.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service:Zerto users find the deployment straightforward with comprehensive customer support. Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup users experience a more complex setup process, but retain solid customer service. Zerto stands out for ease of deployment, while Nutanix scores similarly in support but lags in implementation complexity.

Pricing and ROI:Zerto users report a higher setup cost but justify it with a favorable ROI due to its robust performance and capabilities. Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup is praised for its competitive pricing, yet some users feel the return on investment is balanced by additional operational costs. Zerto's higher initial costs appear validated by its effective long-term ROI.

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Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup vs. Zerto

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Categories and Ranking

Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

54th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Zerto

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

2nd

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

304

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (3rd), Cloud Backup (2nd), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup is 0.6%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zerto is 3.0%, down from 3.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Ingvar Ingason

Channel Sales Manager at Arrow Electronics

An affordable product that offers a reasonably good technical support

I rate the product's initial setup phase an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is a difficult setup phase, and ten is an easy setup phase. The product's installation phase took me around two weeks. On average, it usually takes about a week or two to deploy when everything is in place. The solution is deployed on a hybrid cloud from Azure.

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Sachin Vinay

Assistant Manager-Networks at Amrita

Leverage disaster recovery with reliable support and cost-effective future-proof features

Zerto is straightforward to implement because it only requires the installation of an agent on the VMs designated for migration. A service, typically a VM, must also be deployed at the disaster recovery location. This entire process is simple and can be completed within three days. Zerto's near-synchronous replication occurs every minute, allowing for highly granular recovery points. This means that even if interruptions or malware disruptions occur within that minute, Zerto can restore to the last known good state, effectively recovering the entire setup to the latest backup. This capability ensures high data security and minimizes potential data loss. One of the main benefits of implementing Zerto is its data compression, which significantly reduces the load on our IPsec VPN. Zerto compresses data by 80 percent before transmitting it across the VPN, minimizing the data transferred between geographically dispersed locations. This compression and subsequent decompression at the destination alleviate the strain on the VPN, preventing overload and ensuring efficient data synchronization. Zerto simplifies malware protection by integrating it into its disaster recovery and synchronization features. This comprehensive approach eliminates the need for separate antivirus setups in virtual machines and applications. It streamlines our security measures and removes the need for additional software or solutions, resulting in an excellent return on investment. Zerto's single-click recovery solution offers exceptional recovery speed. Through the user interface, a single click allows for a complete restoration from the most recent backup within two to three minutes, enabling rapid recovery and minimal downtime. Zerto's Recovery Time Objective is excellent. In the past, if a virtual machine crashed, we would recover it from a snapshot, which could take one to two hours. With Zerto, the recovery process takes only five minutes, and users are typically unaware of any disruption. This allows us to restore everything quickly and efficiently. Zerto has significantly reduced our downtime. When malware affects our data, Zerto immediately notifies us and helps us protect other applications, even those not yet implemented with Zerto. By monitoring these applications, we can quickly identify and address any potential malware spread, minimizing downtime across our systems. Zerto significantly reduces downtime and associated costs during disruptions. Our services are unified, so in the event of a disruption without Zerto, even a half-day disruption would necessitate offline procedures. This would lead to increased manpower, service delays, and substantial financial losses due to interrupted admissions and other critical processes. By unifying service processes, Zerto minimizes the impact of outages. Zerto streamlines our disaster recovery testing across multiple locations by enabling efficient failover testing without disrupting live services. Traditionally, DR testing required downtime of critical systems, but Zerto's replication and failover capabilities allow us to test in parallel with live operations. This non-disruptive approach ensures continuous service availability while validating our DR plan, even in scenarios like malware attacks, by creating a separate testing environment that mirrors the live setup. This comprehensive testing provides confidence in our ability to handle real-world incidents effectively. This saves us over 60 percent of the time. Zerto streamlines system administration tasks by automating many processes, thereby reducing the workload for multiple administrators. This allows them to focus on other university services that require attention and effectively reallocate support resources from automated tasks to those requiring more dedicated management. Zerto is used exclusively for our critical services, providing up to a 70 percent improvement in our IT resilience.

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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 this solution as an integrated backup solution and it is integrated from the backup provider to the Nutanix solution."

"Nutanix can converge legacy-style rack mount servers, so it is highly scalable."

"I like the autofill-over feature and the simplicity of the solution."

"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...I rate the technical support a nine out of ten."

"Nutanix has its own backup system known as HYCU, as well as its own virtual server."

"We find the ease of use valuable."

"We don't have to spend a whole lot of time worrying about DR and whether or not we are covered. Zerto just works. As it is replicating, we don't need to spend a whole lot of time with it. That is a huge benefit as far as daily management."

"The migration and ease of use are valuable. It is easy to set up and easy to flip. We just need to click on Move."

"The most valuable feature is the point in time recovery. This allows us to recover at any point in time, up to a minute or so."

"Most of the time, this is at least a two person job. We used to have three people doing it. Previously, when we had a disaster recovery drill, the way it worked was 12 of us would show up in the office on a Friday night and work overnight from 12:00 AM on Friday night to 8:00 AM in the morning on Saturday. Then, three of us would be working for four hours out of those eight or nine hours just getting applications up and running in Arizona. Now, for the disaster recovery drill, I just stay onsite to help and assist anybody else as they need during that time frame and my work is done in about a 30-minute time frame. This is compared to the four or five hours it used to take for the three of us to do it."

"I like that Zerto is easy to move and that there is no effect on the user. That is, the user doesn't even know it. We're in the healthcare industry and work for a hospital. We can set up a server in no time whatsoever. It's easy for us to schedule the time because it takes only about one minute."

"We have kept renewing Zerto because it seems to get better."

"It does what it's purported to do, which is to provide continuous data protection. We have a five-second RPO. It's definitely doing its job."

"Zerto offers a much better user experience and has reduced our disaster recovery time by at least fifty percent."

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Cons

"It could be cheaper."

"This solution could be improved with regards to the hosts that integrate with the platform itself. Each of the hosts integrated with the storage and networking only provide one instance of a backup."

"Nutanix is not secure enough, and it needs to be more resilient."

"The solution's setup process should be simplified."

"The price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"I would like to see the multi-cloud improve."

"It would also be nice if you could update without having to download a new installation file for Zerto Virtual Manager. Within the app, it could prompt you to install and perform the installation from within the application. Generally, it's relatively easy to use, but it gets a little complex when customers have special network requirements and need to customize how long they want the save points to be retained. We need to work with the storage team on the backend to see what makes the most sense for the client."

"I am a little bit worried about how Zerto will work with large volumes of data, such as replication for big data and very large files."

"I would like for them to support additional hypervisor options. They support VMware but if they supported Hyper-V or Nutanix, it would be beneficial."

"The technical support response needs improvement."

"If I were to nitpick, I would say that I wish I had a better account manager. Our sales guy has changed a couple of times. I would like a little more responsiveness from our account manager. I've had a couple of issues where getting in touch with him has been a little difficult, and I end up just going around him and dealing with support and support has handled it right away."

"The knowledge base could be improved. Sometimes, it's finicky, especially when moving storage around. We've had to redo entire processes, which was time-consuming and resulted in data loss. This has happened multiple times, and despite following support steps and contacting support, we often had to resolve issues on our own."

"Zerto's connectivity with automation platforms could be improved. For example, vCenter can use a VMware-developed tool called Site Recovery Manager. That can be integrated with automation platforms such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet, to perform automated, self-sufficient recoveries to essentially avoid any downtime. To my knowledge, Zerto does not have integration with those platforms."

"When we do failover and failback, it doesn't maintain some of the settings that it should and I don't really understand why that happens."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup is fairly priced."

"While Nutanix Mine is extremely expensive for small businesses, it is a very cost-effective product for enterprise businesses."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is affordable or low, and ten is expensive or high, I rate the price as two."

"I rate the pricing a five out of ten because the price is average."

"Zerto is very cost-effective. We get really great value for the cost of the service."

"You are getting what you pay for, as this is a solution that requires minimal management after it is configured."

"Pricing is one area where there could be some improvement. We would like to see a consumption model that would charge in a DR scenario, where you're failing over and consuming those resources, instead of a per-protected-node model. Or it could be a model based on the amount of storage space you're protecting."

"The pricing for this solution could be cheaper. They have two licensing tiers. When we purchased it, they didn't have a license for the cloud model. Certain things that I used to get with the basic licensing are no longer available. They are only available in the Cloud. Overall, the licensing model could be simplified."

"You need to figure out how many critical servers and applications you have in your environment so you will know how many Zerto licenses to buy."

"I would suggest getting a dedicated, well-informed rep."

"Its licensing is yearly. You can do multi-year contracts, which is what we did. You pay per VM, and you replicate a license per VM. So, we bought about 20 licenses. We paid somewhere between $5,000 and $10,000. There is an initial upfront cost. Basically, you buy the license, and then you have a maintenance cost on top of that. So, the upfront cost is somewhere between $5,000 to $10,000. The maintenance is $5,000 to $10,000 over a three-year period."

"When they changed their licensing model, pricing might have gotten a little more expensive for some use cases, but it has been pretty straightforward."

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Computer Software Company

14%

Government

11%

Manufacturing Company

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Computer Software Company

22%

Financial Services Firm

11%

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Healthcare Company

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Nutanix Mine?

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...I rate the technical support a nine out of ten.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nutanix Mine?

On a scale of one to ten, where one is affordable or low, and ten is expensive or high, I rate the price as two.

What needs improvement with Nutanix Mine?

The price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required.

What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?

Ik fluister:VM Host Oracle en DataGuard hebben we per toeval vervangen door Zerto :-) tijdens de Zerto implementatie en VPG werden de Host Data in write-ack Block-Level gerepliceerd. Qua licentie 1...

What do you like most about Zerto?

Its ability to roll back if the VM or the server that you are recovering does not come up right is also valuable. You have the ability to roll back a few seconds or a few minutes. The rollback feat...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zerto?

The setup is somewhat expensive. I'd rate the pricing seven out of ten.

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Also Known As

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Overview

Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup is a turnkey solution that makes backup infrastructure simple and invisible by combining the Nutanix Cloud Platform technology with leading enterprise backup software for dedicated data backup and recovery.

Nutanix

Zerto is used for disaster recovery, business continuity, data migration, and ransomware recovery, providing continuous data protection and near real-time replication. Valued for ease of use, efficient failover processes, and versatile integration, it enhances organizational efficiency, reduces errors, and boosts productivity.

Sample Customers

JetBlue, International Speedway Corporation, SAIC Volkswagen

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