We performed a comparison between Oracle SuperCluster 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."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."
"The two features that I find to be the most valuable are high availability and high performance."
"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."
"Our primary use case is for E-Business Suite applications the applications for the government, and most of the applications that use an HCM."
"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)."
"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."
"The most valuable features are reliability and high availability."
"Access to VMs is now faster due to the centralized management console."
"Some of the key features are the ease of operation and access, without constraining actions. The tool is available to actually move things around, do things quickly quickly."
"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."
"Systems run solidly."
"Finding a fully bundled, deployed, and configured solution with a short delivery time and unique support is really attractive."
"VMware NSX: Provides the ability for our organisation to deliver true DR."
"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."
"If they had an application that centralized the administration, not about the monitoring, but for the configuration, it would be better."
"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."
"I would like to see control domain and zone management via a management console, similar to that of OVM."
"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."
"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."
"We have faced network connectivity issues."
"The user control could be more advanced. They should work to improve this in future releases."
"RCM upgrades were not scripted, and you needed to roll on your own. We were led to believe this would be otherwise."
"RCM upgrades are painful."
"Troublesome relationships with VCE at the beginning of our use came undone quickly after we went live."
"Tighter alignment could simplify and speed up the configuration and delivery process."
"The integration with other vendors' products needs to be looked at. It's not as flexible as we would like it to be."
"The implementation and support could be better."
"Improve the patching process and timeliness of updates/releases."
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Oracle SuperCluster is ranked 7th in Converged Infrastructure with 12 reviews while Vblock [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Converged Infrastructure. Oracle SuperCluster is rated 7.6, while Vblock [EOL] is rated 8.0. 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 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 SuperCluster is most compared with Oracle Private Cloud Appliance, whereas Vblock [EOL] is most compared with .
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