We performed a comparison between Acronis Cyber Infrastructure and DataCore SANsymphony based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"The Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"The most valuable feature of Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is the multi-tenancy model, we can create customers and services for them."
"The most valuable features are the full image backup, and the file or document sharing, allowing documents to be easily accessed from anywhere."
"The most valuable feature is the backup capability."
"It's a software storage solution that can scale as we like. There is also has a parallel feature that enhances the performance of the storage solution. We can separate storage and computing, and we can scale these two parts of the platform to meet business needs efficiently."
"The most valuable feature for us is that we can adjust the size of the storage very easily, without stopping production."
"SANsymphony is flexible, with many potential options for implementation. SANsymphony's can be used with VMware, Hyper-V, or even with a hypervisor agnostic approach. It can also be used for strictly physical non-virtualized solutions."
"The DataCore system has been rock solid since we have been using it - from 2007 on."
"The features I have found most valuable are the active-active, or so-called grid technology, and the integration into our VMware-vCenter."
"The most valuable feature of DataCore SANsymphony SDS is its high availability. This solution also exhibits good performance and has high stability."
"Our system is designed to be scalable and flexible, so it can grow and adapt to meet the changing needs of our clients."
"I'd have to say that the biggest improvement gained by using SANsymphony has to be the performance of the product."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"A great feature would be a wizard and to include a new disk in the SAN. At the moment, including a new disk requires several steps - some that must be done at the OS level and others in each node."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"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."
"I'd like to see the company make the renewal of the software cheaper."
"Unified storage (all block, objects, and files) should be in a single storage pool with unified storage concepts, hence providing the user with whatever they want."
"SANsymphony is missing some features that vSAN has. For example, vSAN has a special feature called continuous data protection. It provides the ability to go back in time to a given moment. You can see what was on your disk in the past up to two weeks. That's a great feature because ransomware attacks are increasingly common, and that provides you some kind of protection."
"There is no way of quickly matching the exact size of a vDisk to a disk pool."
"I found it a little unnecessary to have to rename the configurations within the graphics console in order to have unique names."
"The alert system could have more features."
"The cost is becoming prohibitive since they moved to a subscription model."
"When I sometimes reboot for maintenance, the connectivity from the iSCSI initiator host could be improved."
Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is ranked 30th in HCI with 3 reviews while DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews. Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is rated 7.0, while DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Acronis Cyber Infrastructure writes "Useful multi-tenancy model, reliable, and simple setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is most compared with Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and VxRail.
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