We performed a comparison between Acronis Cyber Infrastructure and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure 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."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"One of the standout features of StarWind.com is its remarkable ability to seamlessly integrate with Dell systems. This integration provides users with an unmatched level of convenience and compatibility, allowing for streamlined operations within a Dell environment. This compatibility factor alone can save significant time and effort for IT professionals, ensuring a smooth integration process and optimized performance."
"The management was very easy and I was able to find all that I need in the software dashboard."
"It allows me to configure High Availability and failover clustering with some fault tolerance, at a cost point that doesn’t break the bank for a small business budget."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"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."
"The initial setup isn't hard."
"Sangfor HCI's best features are the ability to scale to a bigger size and the roadmap, whereby if they need to replicate their production to disaster recovery, they can do so on the same platform."
"The manageability feature is the most important aspect of the solution."
"The most valuable feature of Sangfor HCI is the built-in recovery functionality. The migration is simple to do from other solutions, such as VMware."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten... Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Sangfor is user-friendly and simple to upgrade."
"The Continuous Data Protection (CDP) feature is one of the good features."
"Sangfor HCI has a really good GUI. It allows us to monitor the temperature of the server and many other things."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"Sometimes documentation on their site can be out of date."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"Being able to run StarWind vSAN on top of any free UNIX operating system to build a resilient iSCSI/FTP/SMB storage system would be useful."
"There is a general lack of documentation, especially up-to-date documentation to get started."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"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."
"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."
"Sangfor HCI could be improved with certification and the right ecosystem for ISVs like Oracle and SAP."
"Lacks network support."
"Sangfor’s hypervisor is not mature enough to handle all the flavors related to industrial needs."
"Its virtual machine tools can be improved. These tools should be enhanced for use in other applications and operating systems, such as Linux."
"We have had issues while integrating VMware with Sangfor HCI. The tool should be also faster in terms of customization."
"The cost must be improved."
"The documentation and support from the community are not as good or as mature as VMware or Hyper-V."
"Sangfor HCI has room for improvement in terms of integration. So, the integration with Sangfor HCI is not as extensive as in Nutanix."
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Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is ranked 30th in HCI with 3 reviews while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews. Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is rated 7.0, while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure 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 Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series.
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