We performed a comparison between Acronis Cyber Infrastructure and Dell XC Appliance [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."It is extremely stable."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"StarWind vSAN was very easy to integrate into our system and ran flawlessly during our entire use time."
"It has reduced the amount of switching, network connections, etc., because the converged StarWind Virtual SAN allows us to connect high-speed network interfaces between different boxes instead of having to connect SANs via the network, then connect those two clusters together."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"The ROI is great on this product."
"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."
"The most valuable features are the deduplication and the compression features."
"When we compare it to normal hardware servers, I'd say it is quite easy to configure and deploy."
"What I like the most is that it is easy to implement, easy deployment and that it's easy to manage."
"The solution's best feature is its simplicity. It's so simple to deploy it. You've got the VMware, and it's own appliance. It is really helpful. The system is online within half a day and saves so much time."
"The most valuable feature is that you can assign a volume to an off-shore workload on the fly."
"The most valuable feature is the low management overhead, and the lower skill set required to manage it."
"The solution's hardware is great."
"While we had no problems setting the system up, and service technicians from StarWind could assist us very well, they could provide some form of in-depth documentation."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"The platform needs to improve user management and the web console."
"There is one issue as far as licensing goes and that is a lack of documentation online for users when transitioning from the free version to the paid version, or vice versa."
"There is no IPv6 support. That is our only issue at this time."
"The documentation could be better."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"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."
"Currently, there is no support for the servers that are not in the cluster."
"We are not always advised of new features or updates, so we must research to stay up to date."
"In the next release, I would like to see support for Docker and containers."
"The cost of using the public cloud deployment is astronomical."
"There should be more provisioning capabilities within the solution."
"Dell needs to do a lot of work to simplify the maintenance and life-cycle upgrades for the product."
"The solution's storage size could be improved."
Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is ranked 30th in HCI with 3 reviews while Dell XC Appliance [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI. Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is rated 7.0, while Dell XC Appliance [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 Dell XC Appliance [EOL] writes "Turnkey solution with low management costs that is easy to use". Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is most compared with Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, whereas Dell XC Appliance [EOL] is most compared with .
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