We performed a comparison between Acronis Cyber Infrastructure and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."StarWind vSAN has a lot of great features and is a perfect solution for mirroring internal disks and flash between servers."
"StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"It enables us to provide more solution options for our clients, with the reassurance that, when implemented, they will be efficient and stable."
"PowerShell library is pretty good feature as I created with APC PowerChute a script to put volumes on maintenance mode then turning off the StarWind nodes together with the VM and Hosts when UPS reaches 15 percent, this way after a blackout or electrical problems when turning servers on again, there is no issues for syncing or data loss due to energy interrupts."
"The StarWind tech support is extremely helpful, especially during the initial setup."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"The most valuable feature of Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is the multi-tenancy model, we can create customers and services for them."
"The most valuable feature is the backup capability."
"The most valuable features are the full image backup, and the file or document sharing, allowing documents to be easily accessed from anywhere."
"The ease of use and the graphical user interface (GUI) are two of the most valuable features of this solution."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"Great integration with backup software."
"The solution is easy to use and to learn. It is well integrated with VMware."
"The initial setup was straightforward. With our partners and the consultancy that we had, we knew what we wanted to do. Therefore, we didn't have any problems with the installation and parametrization."
"The most valuable feature is that you can manage the whole cluster from the traffic interconnect."
"The ROI we have seen from the high performance that has saved us time and money."
"Its most valuable feature is its flexibility."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"If there was one feature I would like to see it would be a built-in subsystem for managing UPS backups shutdown procedures providing a way to initiate VM shutdown on all host servers, shut down the host servers, then put the fault-tolerant mirroring in standby, and finally shut down the StarWind SANs."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is too populated. They have many features, but some features are still missing, it is not complete. They need to improve many features, such as email security and disaster recovery."
"If they could make improvements with the virtual environment then it would be better."
"I would like to see real-time backup supported in the next release of this solution."
"You cannot just apply the VSXi updates. You are dependent on Cisco HyperFlex for metric services, analytics, and everything else. I don't like that dependency."
"The solution's price could be affordable."
"The primary improvements should be made in the cluster storage controller VMs so that they don't break the upgrade process."
"The product does not have a cloud version...The product should be made more flexible in terms of integration capabilities."
"Sometimes when there are multiple technologies involved in a support case, this is when there is a bit of a lag."
"Deployment on-prem was quite difficult."
"Cisco is a bit more challenging in terms of deployment. The admin must be knowledgeable in order to complete the task. Without that knowledge, it will be difficult to complete."
"They should give us a little more information about how to use the CLI and offer more commands."
Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is ranked 30th in HCI with 3 reviews while Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is ranked 8th in HCI with 90 reviews. Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is rated 7.0, while Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Acronis Cyber Infrastructure writes "Useful multi-tenancy model, reliable, and simple setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series writes "A fast and easy deployment that allows secure access to our medical applications ". Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is most compared with Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE SimpliVity.
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