We performed a comparison between Oracle SuperCluster and SteelFusion 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."Our primary use case is for E-Business Suite applications the applications for the government, and most of the applications that use an HCM."
"Scalability and technical support."
"The performance is significantly improved, and the administration is easy because it is a single platform end-to-end."
"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."
"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."
"The two features that I find to be the most valuable are high availability and high performance."
"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)."
"Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices. All services that need to be local to the user exist on local servers. Users run applications and access data locally while the data is constantly being synced to Central, and protected. If an edge device fails, we can recover quickly."
"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."
"If they had an application that centralized the administration, not about the monitoring, but for the configuration, it would be better."
"We have faced network connectivity issues."
"Not a very user friendly solution."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Setting up disks for use is a multi-step process that could use some refinement. Setting up a core-to-core replication or DR strategy is also cumbersome."
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Oracle SuperCluster is ranked 7th in Converged Infrastructure with 12 reviews while SteelFusion is ranked 27th in HCI. Oracle SuperCluster is rated 7.6, while SteelFusion is rated 9.0. 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 SteelFusion writes "Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices". Oracle SuperCluster is most compared with Oracle Private Cloud Appliance, whereas SteelFusion is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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