We performed a comparison between Dell PowerEdge VRTX and Oracle SuperCluster based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Converged Infrastructure solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The online UA is very good in comparison to others."
"We were satisfied after we upgraded to a professional next-day on-site support."
"The most valuable feature is the combined management in one box."
"The security is very good on the solution."
"With Dell PowerEdge VRTX, there are fewer points, and it is easier to troubleshoot and find your way around it."
"From a hardware perspective, it's interesting. The selling point of VRTX is that everything is built-in. For a small company that doesn't have a server room or the capabilities of hosting several servers, VRTX has four blades. The equivalent in regular server models would be four servers, which is a minimum of 4U, but it could easily be 8U, and then it would have storage. The storage is included inside the enclosure, and it would require a storage unit. It would also require connectivity, which would be ethernet or another protocol switch. From a software perspective, it's a little bit more integrated. You have an integrated way of managing the whole thing, including storage and networking. It has an internal network that can also be useful. I know for a fact that Dell is almost fazing out the product, and it is not that available anymore because it will just cannibalize their sales. They want to sell the more expensive stuff."
"We now find that the solution is quite stable."
"Dell PowerEdge VRTX supports a lot of memory which has allowed us to keep our system size smaller."
"The performance is significantly improved, and the administration is easy because it is a single platform end-to-end."
"A valuable feature is the Exadata Storage appliance, optimized for database queries."
"The two features that I find to be the most valuable are high availability and high performance."
"Our primary use case is for E-Business Suite applications the applications for the government, and most of the applications that use an HCM."
"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."
"Unix is not as easy for the users, it needs more maintenance and costs extra."
"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 licensing can be difficult to understand."
"The support must be improved."
"The scalability could be better."
"The problem is with our configuration. We know we can use PowerEdge for hyper-convergence if we have PowerEdge and configure vSAN. We will be able to achieve what VxRail is being able to provide, but we need to migrate it to a new infrastructure instead of changing our existing. It will be much more difficult for us."
"I'd like to be able to increase capacity."
"Dell PowerEdge VRTX can improve by providing support for M2 drives."
"Management of storage and networking is web-based, slow, and difficult."
"The nodes should be synced with the server so that the solution can be used from the cloud when any or all nodes are down."
"I would like to see control domain and zone management via a management console, similar to that of OVM."
"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."
"They may have made some improvements but based on the version that I am using, it is a little complicated because it is based on the Unix Operating system."
"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."
"If they had an application that centralized the administration, not about the monitoring, but for the configuration, it would be better."
"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."
"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."
Dell PowerEdge VRTX is ranked 1st in Converged Infrastructure with 16 reviews while Oracle SuperCluster is ranked 7th in Converged Infrastructure with 12 reviews. Dell PowerEdge VRTX is rated 8.4, while Oracle SuperCluster is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Dell PowerEdge VRTX writes "A very good online UI and fit for lower budgets but nodes don't sync with the server". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle SuperCluster writes "Great performance all round, but lacking in certain cloud features". Dell PowerEdge VRTX is most compared with HPE ConvergedSystem, Dell VxBlock System, FlexPod XCS, IBM PureSystems and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance, whereas Oracle SuperCluster is most compared with Oracle Private Cloud Appliance. See our Dell PowerEdge VRTX vs. Oracle SuperCluster report.
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