Azure Site Recovery vs Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service comparison

Microsoft and Nutanix are both solutions in the Disaster Recovery as a Service category. Microsoft is ranked #3 with an average rating of 7.9, while Nutanix is ranked #5 with an average rating of 9.0. Microsoft holds a 12.7% mindshare in DRS, compared to Nutanix’s 6.5% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Nutanix users who would recommend it.

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 14, 2024

Azure Site Recovery and Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service compete in the disaster recovery domain. Nutanix is perceived as superior due to its advanced features and reliability, while Azure Site Recovery excels in pricing and customer support satisfaction.

Features: Azure Site Recovery integrates seamlessly into Microsoft's ecosystem, offering automation for recovery tasks, support for various operating systems, and automated file synchronization. Nutanix provides robust data replication, real-time monitoring, and a highly scalable environment suitable for complex needs.

Room for Improvement: Azure Site Recovery could improve by offering more competitive features with market leaders and reducing complexity for smaller customers. Users suggest Nutanix requires improvements in reducing the learning curve, enhancing integration options, and offering more cost-effective solutions for smaller businesses.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Azure Site Recovery offers easy deployment within Microsoft environments, with responsive customer support highly rated by users familiar with Microsoft services. Nutanix offers a straightforward setup with dependable support but might involve a steeper learning curve for new users.

Pricing and ROI: Azure Site Recovery is noted for cost-effectiveness and a predictable pricing model, providing positive ROI feedback. Nutanix, despite higher initial costs, is valued for delivering ROI through extensive features and scalability, making it a worthwhile investment for large-scale operations.

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Site Recovery

Ranking in Disaster Recovery as a Service

3rd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Nutanix Disaster Recovery a...

Ranking in Disaster Recovery as a Service

5th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Disaster Recovery as a Service category, the mindshare of Azure Site Recovery is 12.7%, down from 22.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service is 6.5%, down from 14.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Disaster Recovery as a Service Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Azure Site Recovery	12.7%
Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service	6.5%
Other	80.8%

Disaster Recovery as a Service

Featured Reviews

Ashadeep Parida

IT Manager at NTT DATA

Long-term user praises cost savings and reliability of disaster recovery solutions

There is only one thing to note: the agent has to be up-to-date when SCCM or any third-party tools are doing patching activities. If their agent version is mismatched and the health status is critical, you will not be able to perform your Azure Site Recovery. Recently, I worked with a mass issue related to Recovery Services Vault, and the VM support engineers are taking a lot of time to extend support to the customer. When you raise a call, they wait too long, and even if you request an engineer to set up a call for severity B cases, they are not ready to communicate over the phone, preferring email instead.

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AhmedKamal3

Regional Manager at VAD

Has improved cost efficiency and streamlined disaster recovery operations through flexible deployment options

The best features of Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service are the high availability and failover capabilities. The majority of customers use the One-Click Disaster Recovery orchestration feature, and they are very satisfied with it. One-Click Disaster Recovery improves the overall business processes within an organization. I am very satisfied with its performance, and our customers are equally satisfied. Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service's effectiveness in seamless failover to secondary sites is exceptional. The Recovery Point Objective is very small and fast. The metro availability and synchronous replication between different sites work very well. Disaster Recovery Orchestration is also good. The cloud disaster recovery as a service functionality is more than sufficient. Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service's audit-proof reporting assists with compliance needs in Saudi Arabia, where we have different compliance certificates. It needs to work more to comply with all available certificates for compliance, including healthcare, financial sector, and Aramco-specific requirements. The positive impact includes cost efficiency, which is the most important point. The pay-as-you-grow model works effectively. The operation is good, and the flexibility for options such as on-premise synchronization, near synchronization, or cloud-based solutions is beneficial. Everything is available within the Nutanix platform, built-in, without extra complexity or fees.

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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

"Azure Site Recovery allows my company to save around 30 percent of the time on every VM that we need to back up and restore."

"Provides generally good performance, from protection to production to failover to data recovery."

"Azure Site Recovery is obviously a time-saving solution, and I can write PowerShell scripts to automate failover on or off processes."

"What I love about Azure Site Recovery is its simplicity for basic configurations."

"It is a very stable product and very scalable."

"The most valuable feature is the visibility of what is happening with our business as well as the good reporting and dashboards."

"The features I find most valuable in Azure Site Recovery include the test failover, which allows us to test our site recovery without bringing down the primary; disaster recovery provides that feature."

"We use the tool for business continuity purposes."

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"The most valuable feature is its simplicity."

"The best features of Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service include real-time synchronization with the best RTO and RPO, inbuilt data protection with snapshot feature functionality, automatic DR site upgrades, ISO certified compliance reporting, and seamless integration with over 1800 certified software applications."

"The solution is stable."

"We haven't needed anyone to maintain or deploy the solution. The traditional Nutanix administrator can administer the solution."

"It offers synchronous data replication, allowing us to sync our recovery data every hour and efficiently send applications to remote sites."

"One-Click Disaster Recovery improves the overall business processes within an organization, I am very satisfied with its performance, and our customers are equally satisfied."

"Hyper-convergence gives me the ability to patch my firmware, software, and hypervisors with a single click. That is extremely useful."

"One-Click Disaster Recovery improves the overall business processes within an organization, I am very satisfied with its performance, and our customers are equally satisfied."

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Cons

"The immutable backup could be better."

"The support team took a lot of time to respond and was not very professional."

"Recently, I worked with a mass issue related to Recovery Services Vault, and the VM support engineers are taking a lot of time to extend support to the customer."

"The primary area for improvement in Azure Site Recovery is its pricing."

"One area for improvement with Azure is helping customers predict usage more accurately."

"The pricing predictability and clarity around the final cost of the plan of this solution could be improved."

"Currently, Azure Site Recovery does not support shared disk options. Moreover, it does not support services like AppConfig or App Services."

"It is for site-to-site replication. When something goes wrong on your site, you only get 15 minutes before it also goes wrong on your replicated site. There should be some way to be able to say that we want to restore it, but we want to restore it to the version from yesterday. It should support versioning. I would also like to see real-time scanning for advanced threat protection, more straightforward billing, and quicker turnaround on the tech support."

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"It needs to work more to comply with all available certificates for compliance, including healthcare, financial sector, and Aramco-specific requirements."

"They need better reporting on the environment."

"It needs to work more to comply with all available certificates for compliance, including healthcare, financial sector, and Aramco-specific requirements."

"I think that Nutanix should support public clouds instead of the Nutanix data centers."

"The solution needs improvement in cost."

"For moving the data for DR, we are using Megaport. We are using a Megaport link between the data centers, so we have a third party for the site-to-site connectivity between the data centers. If such connectivity is available from the Nutanix side, it would be helpful for us."

"The pricing could be better."

"The product is more costly than other platforms. The price could be better."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Azure Site Recovery is a very reasonably priced product."

"I'm not sure about the Azure Site Recovery pricing, but my organization gets monthly bills from providers."

"It should have more straightforward billing. The billing was what got funky. It was really cheap. We would pay based on the usage. We paid around $225 a month for site-to-site replication."

"Azure Site Recovery is affordable."

"They have a license to pay."

"Azure Site Recovery is neither very expensive nor very cheap."

"The tool is expensive. What is expensive to me might not be expensive to you. As I mentioned, we seek ways to reduce our costs. If the price goes down, that would be great. I rate the tool's pricing a six out of ten."

"The tool's licensing is yearly and not expensive."

"Besides the license, there are additional costs with the network connection. The customer may want a direct connection between the two data centers and that has an extra cost."

"I always want it to be cheaper."

"One-time costs may initially seem high, but they reflect the quality of the service received."

"It is a little bit cheaper than the other products in the market. It is affordable."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	14

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	3

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Azure Site Recovery?

Azure Site Recovery allows my company to save around 30 percent of the time on every VM that we need to back up and restore.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Site Recovery?

A major advantage is that you do not want to pay any more for huge costs to build a DR site. It is very flexible and will save your cost.

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What needs improvement with Azure Site Recovery?

The flexibility of Azure Site Recovery regarding integration with different IT environments is limited; it is purely an Azure platform service for business continuity, not meant for integration wit...

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What do you like most about Nutanix Xi Leap?

The tool's most valuable feature is ease of use.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nutanix Xi Leap?

Regarding the pricing of Nutanix compared to the competition, currently there is only one OEM competitor in VMware. There are other vendors, but the feature functionality is not available on their ...

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What needs improvement with Nutanix Xi Leap?

I previously faced some issues with Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service, but currently, we are not experiencing any compatibility issues. For future updates, incorporating AI capabilities would ...

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Overview

Help your business to keep doing business - even during major IT outages. Azure Site Recovery offers ease of deployment, cost effectiveness, and dependability. Deploy replication, failover, and recovery processes through Site Recovery to help keep your applications running during planned and unplanned outages. Site Recovery is a native disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS), and Microsoft been recognized as a leader in DRaaS based on completeness of vision and ability to execute by Gartner in the 2018 Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service.

Microsoft

Nutanix Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) is a fully managed DR service that eliminates the need for a dedicated DR site, minimizes data loss and downtime, and helps organizations meet RTO/RPO SLAs confidently.

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