We performed a comparison between Oracle SuperCluster and Rackspace OpenStack based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Converged Infrastructure solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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)."
"A valuable feature is the Exadata Storage appliance, optimized for database queries."
"Scalability and technical support."
"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."
"The performance is significantly improved, and the administration is easy because it is a single platform end-to-end."
"Unix is not as easy for the users, it needs more maintenance and costs extra."
"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."
"The initial setup isn't too difficult."
"The most valuable feature is the customization. With the customization you can really give the customers what they want."
"There are many services that can be directly used which are not available in VMware."
"Apart from the main features, I really appreciate OpenStack's microservices architecture and its flexibility for deployment with different tools."
"It created a reusable library with OpenStack features."
"The solution is stable."
"I like its integration with GitLab and its simplicity. OpenStack has a lot of third-party libraries that it uses."
"The documentation was plentiful and very helpful."
"I would like to see control domain and zone management via a management console, similar to that of OVM."
"Speaking from a business perspective, our main problem is that our particular edition of SuperCluster is now at end-of-life status, making it obsolete and impossible to get support for. This presents a challenge for us, as finding a path to our next solution is not easy."
"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."
"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."
"We have faced network connectivity issues."
"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."
"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 they had an application that centralized the administration, not about the monitoring, but for the configuration, it would be better."
"So for the main stability, there have been a couple of issues that I've experienced."
"VMware has a side-to-side replication feature, which is still more mature than Rackspace OpenStack's which can't be used in a production environment."
"The line migration is a problem."
"It could use more examples in different languages (API use cases)."
"OpenStack is difficult for the novice in terms of beginning to use cloud tools."
"The seamless integration between MySQL services and the rabbitMQ database can be revised during the debugging phase."
"OpenStack's UI, while user-friendly, could be improved to offer a more intuitive experience."
Oracle SuperCluster is ranked 7th in Converged Infrastructure with 12 reviews while Rackspace OpenStack is ranked 6th in Converged Infrastructure with 9 reviews. Oracle SuperCluster is rated 7.6, while Rackspace OpenStack is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Oracle SuperCluster writes "Great performance all round, but lacking in certain cloud features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rackspace OpenStack writes "A scalable open-source solution that needs some improvement with its ecosystem". Oracle SuperCluster is most compared with Oracle Private Cloud Appliance, whereas Rackspace OpenStack is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance. See our Oracle SuperCluster vs. Rackspace OpenStack report.
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