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."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 is scalable as the box can be increased by one compute node, if required."
"It has helped us to reduce Oracle licensing costs for database and applications."
"You will find the high availability and License Team with Oracle very valuable."
"Capability for scale and growth within a single rack brings strong possibilities for capacity planning."
"Systems run solidly."
"The most valuable feature is that it is centrally managed, as it is quite easy for our customers to manage everything, end-to-end."
"It has improved system performance, batch times for off-hours processing, and reliability with production applications."
"UCS Manager worked well for net/blade management and has allowed fairly easy use of dedicated bare-metal blades."
"The high redundancy of components has minimized frequent service degradation/failure."
"VMware NSX: Provides the ability for our organisation to deliver true DR."
"The most valuable features are reliability and high availability."
"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."
"The initial setup was very complex."
"OVM Manager Interface is using HTML5. It should be reconverted to be a Java interface."
"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."
"The user control could be more advanced. They should work to improve this in future releases."
"I would like to see them improve their switching infrastructure and rely on Cisco configurations. They are a bit more complex and technical, but result in a slightly reduced cost in terms of switching on the network side of it."
"The integration with other vendors' products needs to be looked at. It's not as flexible as we would like it to be."
"With respect to the technical support, there is room for improvement."
"It needs more customer/client involvement in back-end management."
"Improve the patching process and timeliness of updates/releases."
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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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