We performed a comparison between Acronis Cyber Infrastructure and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"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."
"Before VSAN, hypervisor configuration changes and updates resulted in VM outages. Now, downtime is dramatically reduced."
"Without the need for any downtime, enterprises can simply grow their storage infrastructure using StarWind Virtual SAN by adding new servers or disks to the current infrastructure."
"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"StarWind saved us about 80% of our storage costs over our old solution."
"This solution has a very good user interface, with simple administration/management."
"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."
"We find the topology feature of Sangfor HCI particularly valuable."
"Sangfor HCI has a bundle of security features that are easy to monitor on the HCI dashboard."
"The interface is very user-friendly."
"Sangfor is user-friendly and simple to upgrade."
"Very user-friendly and simple."
"The most valuable feature is the three nodes and the free hypervisor."
"The Continuous Data Protection (CDP) feature is one of the good features."
"Sangfor has many solutions, and you can easily manage their machine servers with just one management. They're always striving for greatness, and they continuously update their products. For example, they have now built endpoint security within the firewall. They are continuously improving not only the security but also all other products."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"I would like to see more monitoring and alert tools."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"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."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"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."
"Sangfor’s hypervisor is not mature enough to handle all the flavors related to industrial needs."
"My company faced some issues with the product, as our virtual machines crashed, and we had to face some security issues."
"Its virtual machine tools can be improved. These tools should be enhanced for use in other applications and operating systems, such as Linux."
"It can have more compatibility and new features. I would also like to see better performance. Some of the other HCI solutions already provide the SSD and flash storage and much higher Intel processors. Sangfor HCI can improve on that."
"It should have object storage. It already has network virtualization and micro-segmentation, but it is missing object storage. It does not have object storage. vSAN also does not have object storage, but Nutanix has object storage, and it is natively integrated into its HCI. So, if you pay for the object storage license, you have that module pre-built."
"The error reporting needs to be improved."
"I would want the product to include Continuous Data Protection (CDP) which can help to easily retrieve the data."
"Sangfor HCI could be improved with certification and the right ecosystem for ISVs like Oracle and SAP."
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Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is ranked 29th in HCI with 3 reviews while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews. Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is rated 7.0, while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure 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 Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is most compared with , whereas Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and StorMagic SvSAN.
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