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."It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"One of the standout features of StarWind.com is its remarkable ability to seamlessly integrate with Dell systems. This integration provides users with an unmatched level of convenience and compatibility, allowing for streamlined operations within a Dell environment. This compatibility factor alone can save significant time and effort for IT professionals, ensuring a smooth integration process and optimized performance."
"The virtual tapes can be uploaded to the object storage of your choice with object locking/governance which gives you an extra layer of protection."
"StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"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.""
"You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS\SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage."
"The most valuable feature I have found to be the Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV)."
"I have found the solution to be stable."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it has centralized management."
"In general, being able to patch and not having to pay for SanDisk is the best thing about hyper-converged."
"Data locality provides super-fast data access and ultra-low latency."
"It's much easier and faster even when you want to create a server from a template or clone."
"We are suggesting Nutanix to the management because of scalability and time efficiency."
"I definitely find the reduced power consumption very valuable. Another aspect I really like, when one compares Citrix to VMware, is the interface where you talk directly to your VM from the present software."
"Rubrik has led to improvement by reducing the amount of failed backups, leading to a reduced workload in IT operations."
"I haven't encountered any bugs or glitches using the solution."
"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."
"Rubrik is a very scalable and high-performing backup restore solution."
"It has a single pane of glass interface."
"Instant recovery because it takes about 10 seconds to restore the VM from backup to production"
"The solution’s ransomware recovery, from a security perspective, is one of the biggest features of the product. We don't have to worry about the operational complexity of air-gapped backups and can rely more on the immutability approach. It is a highly valued feature in this solution."
"The live mount reduces complexity."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"The interface of the management console of the StarWind Virtual SAN is complex, and it's difficult for the novice user to interact with the management having less knowledge or training in the product."
"Other vendors such as VMware vSAN have a bigger community of users, so it is easier to find more pre-sale or post-sale information from users."
"They require more media visibility."
"Management tools could be improved, sometimes the usage seems to be slowed down and confusing. A native web interface could also be an option. I love to see in the future port of the software on a general Linux distribution like RedHat or Ubuntu in order to avoid windows license costs. I would also like to see features like erasure coding implemented. On the VSAN software, I would like to see some improvements in the storage pools (eliminate the usage of the file as a data container and use the raw partition)."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"The only thing that I have any difficulty with is that in order to perform upgrades, it is required that the SANs be detached from the Hosts before that can happen."
"Nutanix can be a bit complex to understand."
"USB dongle-based licenses do not allow us to directly locate the USB ports on Nutanix."
"The new features are not free. You need to pay for each feature."
"It would be great if they could improve the GUI features."
"We had a few problems with the foundation machine that you can use to build your systems out. We've got it working now, but it should be improved."
"Could have better visibility with the main OEM backup integrators."
"The product needs improvement in the areas of SAN attachment for high capacity and high I/O profile workloads."
"NCI's pricing is expensive."
"There is always room for improvement with some shortcuts for the web interface. They could make it even more beautiful."
"They should give more access to the backend capabilities. From a customer point of view, you do not have access to all the features on the system. You have to engage their support to perform some of the tasks. It would be helpful for an experienced engineer to be able to go and do some of those tasks prior to contacting the support."
"We have some challenges with the solution's reporting because historical reports have some limitations."
"If there was something that we could get Rubrik to fix, it would be when our DBS takes snapshots of a server or the database, the replication doesn't kick off fast enough. They can't remote it to the peer site and manipulate it back up in order to move it over, take a copy of production, slap it over, and test it out. As I understand, they are working on it. Replication works. We also get spoiled by how good things are now. We get to a point where it is so easy but when something isn't instant gratification, it seems that everything else is so amazing, why isn't this right?"
"The open source database needs to be supported."
"The integrated reporting is not really that nicely built. The reporting functionality could definitely be a little bit more customizable from an administration perspective, with an easier to understand interface."
"It needs more storage array integration options and an easier restore for files that download using a browser."
"It needs to keep innovating to stay relevant in the data management field."
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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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