We performed a comparison between Dell XC Appliance [EOL] and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"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."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very easy-to-use solution that can be quickly and easily deployed and configured without intimate and specific knowledge in the virtualization sphere."
"The fact that we can expand our storage and add on to our compute nodes easily and how amazing the StarWind technical support team is really adding value to our purchase."
"The solution's hardware is great."
"What I like the most is that it is easy to implement, easy deployment and that it's easy to manage."
"The solution's best feature is its simplicity. It's so simple to deploy it. You've got the VMware, and it's own appliance. It is really helpful. The system is online within half a day and saves so much time."
"When we compare it to normal hardware servers, I'd say it is quite easy to configure and deploy."
"The most valuable feature is the low management overhead, and the lower skill set required to manage it."
"The most valuable feature is that you can assign a volume to an off-shore workload on the fly."
"The most valuable features are the deduplication and the compression features."
"You will find the high availability and License Team with Oracle very valuable."
"The most valuable features include distinct storage within the Oracle PCA."
"Supports connection to most of network topology, such as VLAN and network segmentation."
"It has helped us to reduce Oracle licensing costs for database and applications."
"It is scalable as the box can be increased by one compute node, if required."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"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."
"The only point they should improve is the amount of documentation available for the user, especially in the first preliminary phase in which we were testing the product on our own."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"It would help if the manufacturer provided clearer and more detailed documentation, with explanations of how the application can be installed in various HA configurations."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"In the next release, I would like to see support for Docker and containers."
"There should be more provisioning capabilities within the solution."
"Currently, there is no support for the servers that are not in the cluster."
"We are not always advised of new features or updates, so we must research to stay up to date."
"The solution's storage size could be improved."
"Dell needs to do a lot of work to simplify the maintenance and life-cycle upgrades for the product."
"The cost of using the public cloud deployment is astronomical."
"OVM Manager Interface is using HTML5. It should be reconverted to be a Java interface."
"The initial setup was very complex."
"Patching processing takes a long time. Only one compute node is patched at a time."
"In comparison to competitors like VMware, there's a perceived need for Oracle to enhance OVM, making it more flexible and user-friendly."
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Dell XC Appliance [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI while Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is ranked 5th in Converged Infrastructure with 5 reviews. Dell XC Appliance [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dell XC Appliance [EOL] writes "Turnkey solution with low management costs that is easy to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Private Cloud Appliance writes "A highly efficient choice for deploying scalable and reliable middleware applications". Dell XC Appliance [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is most compared with Oracle SuperCluster, Rackspace OpenStack, HPE ConvergedSystem, Dell VxBlock System and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform CI Series.
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