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."For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"The StarWind tech support is extremely helpful, especially during the initial setup."
"The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain."
"StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere is a software-defined storage solution that has reduced administration time for storage. It's pretty straightforward to install and setup it and so far it has been robust and worked as advertised from StarWind."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"It provides shared storage to multiple hypervisor hosts. Times had changed, however. StarWind Virtual SAN is the “software replaces hardware” for SAN. We have access control and CCTV systems up and running using Microsoft clustering and shared storage"
"Acropolis AOS's networking concept is excellent."
"The most valuable feature is the one-click to update the firmware and software."
"It is easy to use. One of the things they have as a design goal is to reduce complexity and simplify things."
"It is a good solution and it is easy to work on their platform."
"Nutanix has the best virtual desktop infrastructure."
"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."
"You can be sure that whatever you patch is already compatible with the current firmware and the current version of the Acropolis that you're using."
"The most valuable features are the user-friendly dashboard and that we don't need to move resources manually when adding new nodes into running clusters."
"The web interface is user-friendly, clean, and it provides a good summary of what you're protecting at a glance."
"This is a centralized tool where we are able to schedule backups and perform monitoring."
"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."
"The solution is stable."
"Rubrik has led to improvement by reducing the amount of failed backups, leading to a reduced workload in IT operations."
"Rubrik is stable and easy to use."
"Management is so simple that anyone can check the backups and do restores when necessary."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"A central management console may be nice to see all nodes."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"The platform needs to improve user management and the web console."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"The StarWind Management Console is available only for Microsoft Windows/Windows Server, and should also be available for Linux and macOS, as it would reduce implementation costs."
"I'd like it to be more API-based."
"Compatible with third party hardware, but it's still very limited."
"The compatibility and integration of Nutanix Acropolis AOS could be improved. For example, we have a WAF application firewall and it does not work on this solution. Not all the OS's run on AOS. You need to have a newer version of an operating system if you want Nutanix to perfectly run all the different options."
"In terms of what I would like to see improved, I would say the life cycle management. I don't know if it is because they changed to an LCM from the previous way of upgrading the hardware or software but sometimes it feels that it needs a wizard that says, "Check this, check this," telling you your options. The only thing that's a bit frustrating for me is the life cycle management interface. That's the only thing on the entire system that frustrates me."
"In the next release, I would like better and more competitive pricing."
"If we can have certified compatibility with other companies, such as Oracle, then it would let us know that they function correctly together."
"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."
"It does not have good backup feature tools, like having templates or being able to back up every two or three days."
"The only thing that can be improved is catering for open source databases because at the moment it doesn't cater for Mongo, MySQL, and Postgres."
"We would like to be able to do granular restores directly from Exchange. Also, more granular management of VM backups would help."
"They need to find a solution for SMBs. It is currently only suitable for enterprises or big customers. They need to find a solution that suits SMBs."
"Global management of multiple systems is lacking, as is reporting across multiple installed units."
"The solution needs to be more secure and needs to better protect against ransomware."
"The open source database needs to be supported."
"The price of Rubrik is too high, especially when you are considering a change in the total backup solution."
"They have what's called an organization which means different groups of access to Rubrik, but the alerting only goes to the admins. My suggestion to Rubrik is to make sure that the separate organizations or groups of users get the appropriate alerting."
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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 84 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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