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."Ten gigabit Ethernet compatibility, support, ease of use, and management are some positive features."
"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."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"It allows you to use ANY consumer or enterprise HDDs and SSDs, and that's a really great thing!"
"The install itself is easy as pie."
"We went from "no way DB applications would have good performance" to "Wow! We can now actually have a DB running and have some VMs running at the same time.""
"We are able to execute maintenance on one server while the other is still running."
"The management interface of this solution is great."
"It has seamless expandability."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's most valuable features are all the cloud facilities or benefits it provides for my data center."
"Single-click upgrades are the most valuable feature. In the sector in which we work, it is tough to have downtime and arrange firmware upgrades."
"The technology of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is the most valuable feature. You don't need multiple screens to manage."
"The most valuable feature is the integration of all parts in Prism Element, the browser-based management tool."
"A lot of features are there, but for us, on the server administration side, creating a clone of the VM is valuable because many times, we have to deploy security patches. For deploying these patches, it helps to have a clone so that if something goes wrong, we can discard that VM and put back the clone VM. That is a very cool feature."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Rubrik for me is its user-friendliness and efficiency."
"Rubrik can also serve as a secondary host for emergency recoveries."
"A Google-like file search, system scaling, and a frequent development cycle are some positives that this solution offers."
"Cut backup remediation to nearly nothing."
"Rubrik has made the process to manage backup and recovery painless. This frees up more time to work on other projects."
"Live Mount is where we do the majority of our big recoveries, unless it is a file recovery. A file recovery takes a few minutes to restore to where the file in the event a file was accidentally deleted by a user, etc. There has been at least a 90 percent reduction in recovery time based on our previous solution, from the need to recover something to when it's actually recovered went from hours to minutes."
"Rubrik is an easy and automatic solution that needs no manual intervention."
"Time dedicated to backup was drastically reduced."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"StarWind relies on the underlying OS to manage the "SAN files" whether that would be a RAID volume, software RAID (such as LVM), etc. It would be useful if StarWind could incorporate the actual physical drive management inside of the solution, similar to Storage Spaces Direct."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"The documentation could be better."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"It would be helpful to have a little more insight into what kind of performance the VSAN cluster is utilizing; something that would be more proactive on our side, versus their ProActive Support."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"It would be great if they could improve the GUI features."
"In the future, I would like Acropolis to add support for publishing external storage."
"The GUI of Nutanix Acropolis AOS could be improved that can be done from the OEM side. It's a very basic stable web browser that they're using. It is not very inclusive."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve by adding some NAS features, similar to the ones that are available in the NetApp solution."
"NCI's pricing is expensive."
"I would have liked it if Nutanix were a hardware as well as a software platform."
"The solution doesn't support older systems, which can be a problem for some organizations who wish to implement it. It became a problem for us due to the fact that some of our systems are older."
"There could be better support for high power ESX and other cross platform applications."
"The product’s user interface needs improvement."
"There could be better reporting and better filtering."
"The Polaris piece could use improvement. When you get a report and you have events that are suspicious, you cannot drill down and find out why it's suspicious. You only know it's suspicious, but you don't know the root cause. Other than that, everything works well."
"I would like to see the entire Office 365 product suite backed up by Rubrik. For instance, they do SharePoint and Exchange online, but they don't back up Microsoft Teams. So, I would like to see more of the Office 365 suite added into their backup capabilities."
"The open source database needs to be supported."
"Needs integration with video CD (coming in the next release) and a multi-tenant GUI."
"A singular system is needed to manage all of the clusters."
"It does not offer image-level backups for Hyper-V 2012."
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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 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, VMware vSphere, HPE SimpliVity 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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