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, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"The user interface for this application is amazing."
"The solution is also quite flexible. As an example, other vSAN solutions that we looked at had more stringent requirements regarding mixed HDD/SSD storage which wouldn't have worked in our environment."
"I like the asynchronous replication and failover features. They are what I'm primarily using it for. The asynchronous replication is helpful because our servers are backed up continuously throughout the day. If anything goes wrong we just fail over immediately. That is a very nice feature to have."
"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"The management was very easy and I was able to find all that I need in the software dashboard."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"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."
"The most valuable features are the full image backup, and the file or document sharing, allowing documents to be easily accessed from anywhere."
"Easily facilitates remote work opportunities with storage and compute resources."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is the integration with everything in a much smoother, such as in physical and virtual environments. VMware NSX is a simpler solution but, Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is more robust compared to VMware NSX."
"The technical support has been helpful. We are always able to get through to the right person."
"It saves space for data centers, which is good."
"Cisco HyperFlex is helping us to put everything in centrally so that we can manage in one place."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable features of this solution are scalability, performance, and reliability. It scales well inside of a large data center."
"It is a hyper-converged solution which integrates with the network instead of the product."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"Sometimes documentation on their site can be out of date."
"There is no IPv6 support. That is our only issue at this time."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"It would be helpful to have a little more insight into what kind of performance the VSAN cluster is utilizing; something that would be more proactive on our side, versus their ProActive Support."
"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."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"I would like to see real-time backup supported in the next release of this solution."
"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."
"The price could be better. I think it's more expensive than VxRail. In the next release, I would like to see a better level of protection and availability with six clients."
"We would like HyperFlex to connect the storage directly into Fabric Interconnect along with the features of the solution. We have enough ports in HyperFlex. We don't want to buy another set of switches to connect to Fabric Interconnect, complicating the solution."
"The infrastructure team thinks that there are a lot of issues."
"There are sometimes issues with memory failure."
"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 additional feature I would like to see included in the next release of this solution is more security. We want to add more data servers to all the hosts all over the world. We have 140 hosts that connect to one data center in Manila."
"A stretch function is really needed. Germans think that because of the high availability and the security that two data centers are better but we want edge all in one cluster. This is a needed feature, the cluster feature, and we'd also like to see a possibility for ROBO offices."
"In the next release, Cisco should add more integration and management capabilities as well as some tweaks to the dashboard that make it more user-friendly. They could also add support for multiple hypervisors."
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, 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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