We performed a comparison between Acronis Cyber Infrastructure and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) 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."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."
"We have been able to use more on-prem hardware to reduce cost and also use old disks that we do not trust enough for ordinary RAID or usage."
"The user interface for this application is amazing."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"Virtual SAN runs on iSCSI, which is free and easy to configure. It's easy to manage from StarWind's GUI console, and it only required a few extra switch ports."
"It has allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"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."
"Prism Central allows managing the cluster from a single pane of glass, and it allows a deeper dive into the solution."
"This is a very flexible solution that you are able to run however you want."
"It has a single pane of glass and you don't have to jump around various toolsets."
"Being able to upgrade our entire cluster with the click of a button during business hours with zero downtime has made managing our infrastructure so easy."
"It is a good solution and it is easy to work on their platform."
"It has a user-friendly dashboard and interface."
"Data locality provides super-fast data access and ultra-low latency."
"The solution offers impressive performance."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"It would be helpful if StarWind provided more precise and detailed documentation explaining how to configure the solution in various scenarios, including the advantages and disadvantages of each."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"For improvement, I would like to see how the software determines which networks to use for which purpose. It seems like the naming terminology changes a bit from here to there."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"I struggled when bit figuring out how to go about doing the evaluation."
"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 real-time backup supported in the next release of this solution."
"As Nutanix Acropolis AOS is on the expensive side, one of its areas for improvement is the price. It would also be better if it can be integrated with other cloud providers, because currently, it's only for private cloud deployment."
"The licenses for Nutanix are very complicated."
"We could always use a performance upgrade, or simplified management."
"I would like them to update their licensing to provide more features with their basic license."
"We have a team that does the implementation of the solution for our customers, it is better to have professionals handle the process."
"While the customer support is truly incredible, for Spanish speakers it would be appropriate to have support in their native language to further improve problem-solving conditions."
"In the future, I would like Acropolis to add support for publishing external storage."
"The GUI for this solution needs improvement."
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Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is ranked 29th in HCI with 3 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews. Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is rated 7.0, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Acronis Cyber Infrastructure writes "Useful multi-tenancy model, reliable, and simple setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is most compared with Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex. See our Acronis Cyber Infrastructure vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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