We performed a comparison between Oracle Private Cloud Appliance 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."You will find the high availability and License Team with Oracle very valuable."
"It is scalable as the box can be increased by one compute node, if required."
"The most valuable features include distinct storage within the Oracle PCA."
"It has helped us to reduce Oracle licensing costs for database and applications."
"Supports connection to most of network topology, such as VLAN and network segmentation."
"Because SuperCluster is a specially engineered system, we have confidence in that all the components are compatible with one another. Everything runs together as a well-coupled group of machines, and the performance is great (especially the memory)."
"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."
"A valuable feature is the Exadata Storage appliance, optimized for database queries."
"SuperCluster is basically a combination of Oracle, with Exadata and Compute node features, so it is a computing cluster that is integrated in a single infrastructure such that we don't need a separate solution for the application database, the data storage database, and everything else the application needs."
"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."
"The two features that I find to be the most valuable are high availability and high performance."
"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."
"The initial setup was very complex."
"OVM Manager Interface is using HTML5. It should be reconverted to be a Java interface."
"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."
"There are many areas for improvement. For example, better guidance in terms of troubleshooting issues relating to ZFS, as well as better tools/diagnostics for monitoring that specific component, to better identify potential issues. Hardware monitoring via OEM 13.2 is not 100 percent, as Ops Center is still required in some instances."
"I would like to see control domain and zone management via a management console, similar to that of OVM."
"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."
"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."
"Not a very user friendly solution."
"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."
"We have faced network connectivity issues."
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Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is ranked 5th in Converged Infrastructure with 5 reviews while Oracle SuperCluster is ranked 7th in Converged Infrastructure with 12 reviews. Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is rated 8.0, while Oracle SuperCluster is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Oracle Private Cloud Appliance writes "A highly efficient choice for deploying scalable and reliable middleware applications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle SuperCluster writes "Great performance all round, but lacking in certain cloud features". Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is most compared with HPE ConvergedSystem, Dell VxBlock System, Hitachi Unified Compute Platform CI Series, Rackspace OpenStack and Dell PowerEdge VRTX, whereas Oracle SuperCluster is most compared with .
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