We performed a comparison between Acronis Cyber Infrastructure and StarWind Virtual Tape Library based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."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."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"Updates to server hardware are now painless and done during working hours with zero stress. We had a RAID failure a few months back, and nobody in the building even noticed and there was no after hours time used for repair."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"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."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"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."
"It is a stable solution."
"StarWind VTL allowed us to back up to virtual tape that was created within Veeam and upload the tape to the cloud."
"The most valuable feature of the StarWind Virtual Tape Library is the archiving to the AWS cloud."
"The solution made our backups way more reliable."
"I like the fact that we can simultaneously upload the virtual tapes to different cloud providers, and the settings can be adjusted to speed up the upload times even further."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"StarWind Virtual SAN architecture is slightly complex and requires the team to carefully identify and study how the solution integrates with VMware vSphere."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"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."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"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."
"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."
"I am not sure if this is a limitation of my physical hardware or if it is the software itself. However, I would like the throughput to be faster."
"The initial installation can be complex and should be simplified."
"The main thing that I felt could be improved was having an estimated time of completion for the virtual tape uploads to the cloud."
"The solution's training process and online documentation could be more thorough."
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Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is ranked 30th in HCI with 3 reviews while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is ranked 15th in HCI with 6 reviews. Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is rated 7.0, while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of Acronis Cyber Infrastructure writes "Useful multi-tenancy model, reliable, and simple setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind Virtual Tape Library writes "Flexible and reliable with helpful support". Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is most compared with Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, whereas StarWind Virtual Tape Library is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, HPE StoreVirtual and StorMagic SvSAN.
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