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, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."It allows you to use ANY consumer or enterprise HDDs and SSDs, and that's a really great thing!"
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"The ability to run a two-node cluster without a dedicated witness has made this an excellent product for small deployments, which is right on target for our needs in regional offices."
"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."
"It has reduced our overall maintenance and overhead by having to only maintain physical boxes for one cluster instead of having to manage physical boxes for two clusters."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"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 biggest thing we were looking for was redundancy, with both the compute and the storage, so that way we could lose a full node and still keep everything up and running, and not have to worry about it... StarWind was able to provide a solution for what we wanted, - to provide for redundancy."
"The hosts came preconfigured, and it was plug-and-play."
"With proactive support, StarWind deploys and configures the solution for you."
"Live migration between nodes was quick and simple."
"The setup was easy to deploy, and management is simplified compared with traditional SAN solutions."
"With StarWind's Proactive monitoring we can go about our day helping our customers and not have to worry about our cluster's health."
"What makes it valuable is the high-availability. In the education field, when you've got students in classrooms, any loss of service disrupts the lessons to a point that the whole lesson is affected. For part of the business which isn't business-critical, to have a little bit of a hiccup wouldn't be such a big thing, but here, it's the high availability of service that is important."
"The support is the most valuable feature. The support has been amazing. It's around the clock. One of our hard disks accidentally ejected without me knowing or being onsite. They called and told me about it before I had a chance to see it myself."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"It should be improved in the way it detects the right filesystem image after a complete shutdown of the system or in the case of disaster recovery."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"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."
"The StarWind Management Console is available only for Microsoft Windows/Windows Server, and should also be available for Linux and macOS, as it would reduce implementation costs."
"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."
"Possible new features could be CSV-level snapshot capability, Veeam integration, and maybe a more straightforward setup. Granted, you don't have to worry about setups with the HCA, but if you want to implement StarWind vSAN in a lab to test it is a tedious setup process."
"A possible thing is perhaps a customer portal to schedule a time with support online via a calendar."
"I'd like a better UI and some limitations on "breaking it.""
"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."
"We need to be very cautious in following every step when updating the physical host. We must move over each VM and drain roles from the servers to ensure everything goes smoothly without interruptions. If this were a more automated process, this would be less taxing each time an upgrade is needed."
"The response time is usually several hours after the issue occurred."
"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."
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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, whereas StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, VxRail and StorMagic SvSAN.
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