We performed a comparison between Acronis Cyber Infrastructure and StarWind HyperConverged Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The product only requires two VMWare ESXi host servers versus three host servers for VMware's comparable solution."
"For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"This product now allows us to migrate virtual machines between nodes as if we had a dedicated $100,000 SAN in the mix without the additional cost and management of the SAN."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business."
"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"StarWind allowed us to deploy highly available shared storage within our budget."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is the multi-tenancy model, we can create customers and services for them."
"Customer service has been excellent. Any questions we have had have been answered quickly."
"With proactive support, StarWind deploys and configures the solution for you."
"We were able to set it up via the documentation and only needed their support a handful of times."
"With StarWind's Proactive monitoring we can go about our day helping our customers and not have to worry about our cluster's health."
"The initial setup seems to be very straightforward."
"We opted for 24-hour monitoring and support, which has already paid for itself."
"In our experience with StarWind, the support has been by far the most valuable feature."
"The initial setup is straightforward once you know what you're doing."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"When you will cease your contract with StarWind (for support) your product won't be updated and that is a big selling point, especially for us, as we have loads of products from StarWind."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"If they could make improvements with the virtual environment then it would be better."
"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."
"I would like to see real-time backup supported in the next release of this solution."
"The only area that the product could improve would be user training."
"It would be nice if it were possible to do the ISCSI setup that you do on Windows directly in the management GUI of StarWind."
"The web-managed interface (a separate VM) could be better."
"We ran into some issues with going from Hyper-V 2012 R2 to Hyper-V 2019."
"We were slightly disappointed with the hardware footprint. We were led to believe, and all the pre-sales tech information requirements pointed to the fact, that it was coming on Dell hardware. Then it came on bulk servers."
"At the moment, the initial configuration is very technical and error-prone. That is the reason Starwind does it for you as a service, which is a great thing. But it would be nice if we could change or rearrange storage assignments ourselves."
"The only critique I might have is that the support is overseas in Eastern Europe and, on occasion, there has been a language issue. But in general, they're as good as can be..."
"Not much can be improved, to be honest."
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Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is ranked 30th in HCI with 3 reviews while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is ranked 6th in HCI with 65 reviews. Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is rated 7.0, while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of Acronis Cyber Infrastructure writes "Useful multi-tenancy model, reliable, and simple setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind HyperConverged Appliance writes "Straightforward to use with good remote management and a simple GUI". Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is most compared with Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, VxRail and StorMagic SvSAN.
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