We performed a comparison between Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series 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."It has reduced the amount of switching, network connections, etc., because the converged StarWind Virtual SAN allows us to connect high-speed network interfaces between different boxes instead of having to connect SANs via the network, then connect those two clusters together."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"Ten gigabit Ethernet compatibility, support, ease of use, and management are some positive features."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"In our implementations, HDS Storage Virtualization has helped in migrating data with the least amount of downtime, compared to other storage technologies."
"This solution allowed us to move from using standalone systems to having all our data center management in one place."
"The replication technology can move data faster than EMC MirrorView and requires less bandwidth. The Storage Virtualization technology is the most mature in the market, outside of IBM’s Storwize (which has a lot of compatibility issues, and EMC’s very expensive VPLEX solution); and it works."
"You will find the high availability and License Team with Oracle very valuable."
"The most valuable features include distinct storage within the Oracle PCA."
"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."
"Supports connection to most of network topology, such as VLAN and network segmentation."
"I would like to see some additional, and possibly clearer, implementation videos with some slower and possibly more detailed descriptions of what the various steps of implementation are for someone who is unfamiliar with high availability and failover clustering in Windows."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"The software monitoring should be web-based to be reachable from any VLAN workstation."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"I did not see any indication that StarWinds vSAN is a usable solution with non-GUI instances of Hyper-V."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"HDS reaches a ceiling depending on model. The G200 cannot transition to G400, the G400 can transition to G600 but cannot transition to G800, which is the top-end model."
"An update to its technology would be good. The G Series has been around for more than five years and HDS seriously needs to ramp up, since the competition has better performance at a lower cost with better features and functionalities. For example, it needs redirect on write Snapshot, preconfigured storage tiering with better IOPS, built-in deduplication technology on hybrid disk, etc."
"An area for improvement would be technical support. In the next release, I would like to see more features added to make this a more complete solution."
"In comparison to competitors like VMware, there's a perceived need for Oracle to enhance OVM, making it more flexible and user-friendly."
"The initial setup was very complex."
"Patching processing takes a long time. Only one compute node is patched at a time."
"OVM Manager Interface is using HTML5. It should be reconverted to be a Java interface."
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Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is ranked 24th in HCI while Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is ranked 5th in Converged Infrastructure with 5 reviews. Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is rated 8.0, while Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series writes "Allows for centralized management with great interconnectivity". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Private Cloud Appliance writes "A highly efficient choice for deploying scalable and reliable middleware applications". Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, VMware vSAN, Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is most compared with Oracle SuperCluster, HPE ConvergedSystem, Dell VxBlock System, Hitachi Unified Compute Platform CI Series and Rackspace OpenStack.
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