We performed a comparison between Acronis Cyber Infrastructure and StarWind Virtual SAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."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 most valuable features are the full image backup, and the file or document sharing, allowing documents to be easily accessed from anywhere."
"StarWind allowed us to deploy highly available shared storage within our budget."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"The management interface on the software is very simple. It is insanely simple compared to most SANs. The interface is also powerful when used to complete tasks that an IT administrator needs to complete."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"The primary purpose of this software is to create a virtual SAN between local storage on Hyper-V hosts. I find this feature most valuable since it accomplishes this quite well."
"The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"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."
"If they could make improvements with the virtual environment then it would be better."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is ranked 30th in HCI with 3 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 182 reviews. Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is rated 7.0, while StarWind Virtual SAN 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 Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is most compared with Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and DataCore SANsymphony.
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