We performed a comparison between FlexPod XCS, IBM PurePower System, and Oracle SuperCluster based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and others in Converged Infrastructure."The initial setup was very straightforward. They provided a lot of documentation."
"The benefit is the speed, it's the performance. That's what it comes down to is the performance of the solution."
"FlexPod has affected the workload of our network admin team awesomely. We have fewer employees. It's good."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the flexibility in configuration and the setup."
"One of the most valuable aspects is its integrated convergence infrastructure, particularly the LAN and SAN cloud features that offer a unified fabric."
"The ease at which it scales and its redundancy factors. It's extremely redundant and easy-to-scale."
"I am happy with the stability. I haven't had any major issues with it in four years. This includes upgrades."
"The most valuable feature of FlexPod is that it allows you to get the old compute storage and the network switch or the fabric of the network in one box. You can use pods to have a tiny cloud in the box, which is one of its best features."
"We never have any issues or glitches."
"Scalability and technical support."
"In this setup, the traffic is distributed among the nodes, enhancing the overall performance compared to a scenario where all traffic is directed to a single server."
"A valuable feature is the Exadata Storage appliance, optimized for database queries."
"Unix is not as easy for the users, it needs more maintenance and costs extra."
"Our primary use case is for E-Business Suite applications the applications for the government, and most of the applications that use an HCM."
"Because it's classified as an engineered system, it's all integrated, it's all supported by one vendor. We don't have to go to multiple vendors for support, it's all integrated under Oracle."
"The performance is significantly improved, and the administration is easy because it is a single platform end-to-end."
"The two features that I find to be the most valuable are high availability and high performance."
"The last two calls that I have made to NetApp support have been handled too casually. People are too lax, not quite as professional as I would have liked."
"It would be helpful to have more flexibility for adding other components."
"We dislike going online with the robot stuff. Many times, it has delayed our reaching out to a real support engineer."
"If they could reduce some of the complexity at the system manager level for ONTAP. I find it gives a lot of flexibility. You can do as much or as little as you want. But to be able to do as little as you want, you do have to do a lot. So, if they could bring that down to a more manageable effort level, that would be nice and simplify it a bit."
"Perhaps having a unified interface for managing the entire company could lead to improved efficiency and performance."
"I would like to see more CVDs and more published designs around a multi-hypervisor approach within a single pod."
"We don't see the much DR capability within the FlexPod so for that, we have to maintain our own DR capability with DSRM."
"If there were going to be any improvements, they should probably be UI improvements, overall. It can get a little kludgy sometimes when trying to figure out what to do."
"The management is really difficult when it comes to systems with traditional services."
"Speaking from a business perspective, our main problem is that our particular edition of SuperCluster is now at end-of-life status, making it obsolete and impossible to get support for. This presents a challenge for us, as finding a path to our next solution is not easy."
"It's not working as we expected. We thought it would be fast and reliable but we are not getting the reliability. It's not stable."
"I would like to see control domain and zone management via a management console, similar to that of OVM."
"If it had capabilities to integrate really well with DB2 or SQL Server or Hitachi SANs, those sort of things, that would be a real benefit. Right now, it's fully supported only under all Oracle infrastructure."
"A major issue for us is that after the most recent update of SuperCluster, they have now stopped all future production of new versions. That is to say, after M7 there was M8, and now there are no future versions planned (e.g. M9) in the market."
"We have faced network connectivity issues."
"Not a very user friendly solution."
"If they had an application that centralized the administration, not about the monitoring, but for the configuration, it would be better."
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