We performed a comparison between Acronis Cyber Infrastructure and HPE Hyper Converged based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"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 product only requires two VMWare ESXi host servers versus three host servers for VMware's comparable solution."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"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."
"The solution's most valuable features are scalability, easy migration, easy recovery, and flexible backup possibilities."
"The product enables me to use any software or database."
"It is easy to manage; the administration is simpler. It saves a lot of rack space in the data center because you can consolidate 20 servers into three to five nodes. The client will be able to benefit from power savings and cost savings as well."
"It provides unmatched performance, productivity and reliability."
"The most valuable features are resiliency and data protection."
"The HPE Hyper Converged solution is used in a hybrid cloud configuration. We assess the disk space and partition additional capacity."
"One of the solution's strong points is the deduplication capabilities of SimpliVity."
"We like the fact that the hyper-converged infrastructure provides a simple to grow, easy to configure platform."
"Scaling the product is fairly easy except for the computing aspect. It would entail another appliance. While not a show stopper, it isn't as easy as dropping in a few extra SSDs."
"I'd love to see native export of metrics (via Prometheus or something of that nature) to allow us to get more metrics available on our existing dashboard software."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"StarWind Virtual SAN could benefit from better integration with other tools and technologies, such as backup and disaster recovery solutions."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"To enable the proactive support capability that is part of our support agreement, I would ask that the terms and conditions be revised and made acceptable to corporate security."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"I would like an automated installation/configuration despite the fact that their service is very collaborative, a customer should be able to deploy the solution by themselves."
"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."
"I would like to see improvement in the hardware underneath it. Currently, it's a Gen9 DL380. One day, there will be a Gen10 DL380 and maybe they will have bigger or smaller sizes."
"The storage efficiency is weak and needs to be improved."
"I would like to see a more intuitive, user-friendly UI."
"The solution's pricing for the hardware and support could be reduced."
"This solution is very costly."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
"Though with HPE Hyper Converged, you get everything, the documentation part is very much required, especially if you opt for the solution's subscription-based licensing model."
"Providing local technical support and improving the price are areas this service needs to consider improving."
Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is ranked 29th in HCI with 3 reviews while HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 10th in HCI with 34 reviews. Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is rated 7.0, while HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Acronis Cyber Infrastructure writes "Useful multi-tenancy model, reliable, and simple setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is most compared with Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, whereas HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity and HPE Alletra dHCI. See our Acronis Cyber Infrastructure vs. HPE Hyper Converged report.
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