We performed a comparison between Acronis Cyber Infrastructure and NetApp HCI [EOL] 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 allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"The primary purpose of this software is to create a virtual SAN between local storage on Hyper-V hosts. I find this feature most valuable since it accomplishes this quite well."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"As the client had acquired another company some distance away, they were concerned about having a single SAN in one location or the other. StarWind vSAN allowed us to keep a copy of the data local to each site without asking the client to pay for two SANs in addition to the two new servers they needed."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"The ability to run a two-node cluster without a dedicated witness has made this an excellent product for small deployments, which is right on target for our needs in regional offices."
"Without the need for any downtime, enterprises can simply grow their storage infrastructure using StarWind Virtual SAN by adding new servers or disks to the current infrastructure."
"The ability to run the software virtually on every virtualization platform and the ability to eliminate all storage vendor locking are the most valuable features."
"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 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."
"We're trying to move to a much more API-driven management of all of our products, and NetApp's product is, from all the SDS providers we have seen, the most fully-baked API out there."
"NetApp HCI is a stable solution."
"In terms of helping us with storage persistence across private and hybrid clouds, we do store data internally and in Azure. It has allowed us to consolidate a number of workloads, across our old NetApp and a number of our older storage arrays, into a single unit and have that unit also working with Azure."
"When you are doing lifecycles for your equipment, you can just swap out pieces of equipment. We used to do one big iron to another big iron, and that's a major migration hassle. Whereas, with this environment, you can go with small nodes, one at a time, and do a refresh."
"It allows me to move a VM set and require extra performance. I can easily move them onto it and have it just run."
"The NetApp Deployment Engine that comes with it makes the actual deployment and usage very easy. That's our primary focus and it's hyper-converged. That's something that we want to use as well."
"It is easy to administrate the solution, and the company handles its technical support well."
"HCI has helped with storage persistence across private and hybrid clouds for the last year. It's faster and more reliable with minimal downtime, as it doesn't require any maintenance."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"Management of VSAN itself could be improved. A Web UI for management would be great rather than an application installation. StarWind is testing a command center virtual appliance that I have installed in my environment."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"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."
"Because I like block mode, I'd like to see SAN connectivity. I would like to be able to easily put it into my current environment."
"It is difficult to get acclimated to all the new features quickly. The onboard process could be improved to bring clients up to speed faster."
"My biggest pain point is the installation part. I would like to see the appliance itself remove the entire switch that goes behind it and figure out how to do all the cluster interconnects within the box itself."
"It would be great if they took something like kernel storage and integrated straight into the NetApp as well."
"In the next version I would like to see bigger GPU types and insurance for including transparency."
"To improve the product, they should make it more flexible."
"The price should be lowered. It's a little expensive."
"There are some legacy applications which still cannot be migrated. That is why we have to keep two environments: legacy and the new one. We would like to see more compatibility to move stuff."
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Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is ranked 29th in HCI with 3 reviews while NetApp HCI [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 32 reviews. Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is rated 7.0, while NetApp HCI [EOL] 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 NetApp HCI [EOL] writes "Ease of provisioning has allowed us to implement large installations in a very short time frame". Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is most compared with Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas NetApp HCI [EOL] is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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