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."VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"It allows you to use ANY consumer or enterprise HDDs and SSDs, and that's a really great thing!"
"The features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"The ability to run the software virtually on every virtualization platform and the ability to eliminate all storage vendor locking are the most valuable features."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"It has great free trials that allow end users to test a large variety of their products before deciding to buy the full product."
"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 product only requires two VMWare ESXi host servers versus three host servers for VMware's comparable solution."
"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."
"Data locality provides super-fast data access and ultra-low latency."
"The simplicity when it comes to building your own automation has been excellent."
"The level of statistical performance data that it can confirm in real-time is extremely useful. I can see what my VM’s hosts and guests are doing from a single pane of glass and identify issues before they would otherwise become apparent."
"The product is easy to manage."
"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."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's most valuable feature is the flexibility to move the VMs easily, keeping everything together."
"The most valuable features are simple management and one-click upgrades."
"It is very easy to clone systems using the solution."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"While we had no problems setting the system up, and service technicians from StarWind could assist us very well, they could provide some form of in-depth documentation."
"Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk."
"We would like the documentation to be more complete. Most items are covered, but if you don't know something, you may need to contact their support."
"The gathering of monthly consumption and performance reports for future dissemination to concerned parties is very important. Unfortunately, StarWinds vSAN doesn't offer this functionality."
"The GUI deserves a little love."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"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."
"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."
"In the future, I would like to see multi-tenancy in Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"As far as what could be improved, they have some built-in backup functions already, but any built-in isolation features like vision security features and free LAN features become a security concern."
"The one note of improvement I have for Nutanix is that the installation should be easier."
"The pricing model for software and hardware subscription renewals can be improved."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure lacks compatibility with certain older processors."
"Lacks sufficient integration with other vendors and public clouds."
"It would be great if they could improve the GUI features."
"The file services that they also provide need some more features, like on the Windows file server."
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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 VxRail, VMware vSAN, VMware vSphere, Dell PowerFlex and Hyper-V. See our Acronis Cyber Infrastructure vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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