We performed a comparison between Oracle Private Cloud Appliance and Vblock [EOL] 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."It has helped us to reduce Oracle licensing costs for database and applications."
"The most valuable features include distinct storage within the Oracle PCA."
"It is scalable as the box can be increased by one compute node, if required."
"You will find the high availability and License Team with Oracle very valuable."
"Supports connection to most of network topology, such as VLAN and network segmentation."
"The XtremIO All-Flash array delivers performance, reliability, and deduplication."
"The high redundancy of components has minimized frequent service degradation/failure."
"We have seen measurable increases in our system performance. Those increases have been directly measurable in application performance and the delivery of critical business information to our users."
"The most valuable features are reliability and high availability."
"The component integration means I don't have to worry about technology mismatches."
"VMware NSX: Provides the ability for our organisation to deliver true DR."
"It's an integrated box Mac solution, so it's a plug and play. The deployment and build is pre-made and ready to deploy. It makes it easy to apply."
"Access to VMs is now faster due to the centralized management console."
"In comparison to competitors like VMware, there's a perceived need for Oracle to enhance OVM, making it more flexible and user-friendly."
"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."
"The initial setup was very complex."
"In the next release, I would like to see a smaller footprint in the data center and have improvements to disk performance."
"The implementation and support could be better."
"VCE tools, like Vision or AMP were not stand alone, and depended too much on other management consoles."
"Troublesome relationships with VCE at the beginning of our use came undone quickly after we went live."
"The integration with other vendors' products needs to be looked at. It's not as flexible as we would like it to be."
"It needs more customer/client involvement in back-end management."
"While most public clouds are deployed on Linux, there is current no certified Vblock working on KVM hypervisors."
"OEM services requires too much planning and low availability of certified engineers."
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Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is ranked 5th in Converged Infrastructure with 5 reviews while Vblock [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Converged Infrastructure. Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is rated 8.0, while Vblock [EOL] is rated 8.0. 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 Vblock [EOL] writes "The VCE VBlocks came along and it was the best combination of an all-in-one virtual data center in a box Converged SAN, Network, and Compute that used VMware to drive the whole package". Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is most compared with Oracle SuperCluster, Rackspace OpenStack, HPE ConvergedSystem, Dell VxBlock System and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform CI Series, whereas Vblock [EOL] is most compared with .
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