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Azure Site Recovery vs Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 14, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

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
26
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Nutanix Disaster Recovery a...
Ranking in Disaster Recovery as a Service
4th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
5.4
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Disaster Recovery as a Service category, the mindshare of Azure Site Recovery is 21.5%, up from 21.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service is 9.0%, down from 13.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Disaster Recovery as a Service Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Azure Site Recovery21.5%
Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service9.0%
Other69.5%
Disaster Recovery as a Service
 

Featured Reviews

RituparnaBhattacharya - PeerSpot reviewer
The time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes
First of all, we initially faced a challenge as Azure Site Recovery was not supporting shared disk options on SQL clusters with VMs, which are important for a Windows cluster mode. Additionally, the setup is quite easy, only requiring the creation of a vault. Its time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes.
Jaimin Mehta - PeerSpot reviewer
Affordable, highly scalable, and outstanding support
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. Currently, Nutanix is providing the remote snapshot, and on the data center side, there is one cluster, and on the DR side, there is another cluster. We have synchronized both clusters with the same environment. For connectivity, we are using a Megaport link, and we have to pay a third party for that. If Nutanix can provide such connectivity, it will be helpful.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most useful thing is that it provides a snapshot of your environment in about 15 minutes. It is stable, and it always works. It is also scalable and easy to set up."
"Azure Site Recovery is an easy-to-use and fairly stable solution for disaster recovery."
"Provides generally good performance, from protection to production to failover to data recovery."
"The setup is quite easy, just requiring the creation of a vault."
"The most valuable feature is the visibility of what is happening with our business as well as the good reporting and dashboards."
"Our primary use case is for disaster recovery and business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR)."
"They're moving a lot of their workload to cloud and aiming for a seamlessly integrated product."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"It is a very secure and scalable solution, and their support is also outstanding."
"The tool's most valuable feature is ease of use."
"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."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature is its simplicity."
"Hyper-convergence gives me the ability to patch my firmware, software, and hypervisors with a single click. That is extremely useful."
"We haven't needed anyone to maintain or deploy the solution. The traditional Nutanix administrator can administer the solution."
"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."
 

Cons

"The support team took a lot of time to respond and was not very professional."
"The system did go down a couple of times, which impacted our operations. For stability, I would rate it a seven out of ten."
"The immutable backup could be better."
"I would like to see more security features."
"One area for improvement with Azure is helping customers predict usage more accurately."
"Currently, Azure Site Recovery does not support shared disk options. Moreover, it does not support services like AppConfig or App Services."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in the release of patches, such as ensuring they are properly managed to avoid outages."
"The pricing could be better."
"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."
"It needs to work more to comply with all available certificates for compliance, including healthcare, financial sector, and Aramco-specific requirements."
"The product is more costly than other platforms. The price could be better."
"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."
"They need better reporting on the environment."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"They have a license to pay."
"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."
"The tool's licensing is yearly and not expensive."
"Azure Site Recovery is neither very expensive nor very cheap."
"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."
"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."
"Azure Site Recovery is affordable."
"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."
"It is a little bit cheaper than the other products in the market. It is affordable."
"One-time costs may initially seem high, but they reflect the quality of the service received."
"I always want it to be cheaper."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Insurance Company
8%
Computer Software Company
23%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise14
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise3
 

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.
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.
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...
What do you like most about Nutanix Xi Leap?
The tool's most valuable feature is ease of use.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nutanix Xi Leap?
Pricing is average. I rate the product’s pricing a nine out of ten, where ten is good.
What needs improvement with Nutanix Xi Leap?
The solution needs improvement in cost.
 

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Sample Customers

Russell Reynolds Associates, Union Insurance, Rackspace
JetBlue, International Speedway Corporation, SAIC Volkswagen
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