Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Other Advice

MK
Head of Networks and Communication section at Riyadh Municipality

I highly recommend using it, particularly for middleware applications. However, I advise against installing databases on PCA because it is not specifically designed for that purpose. For database installations, it's more effective to consider Oracle Database Appliance or Oracle Exadata. Overall, I would rate it ten out of ten.

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SH
CTO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Oracle PCA is definitely worth investing in.

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MA
System Admin at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

If you have many Oracle products, such as databases, middleware, and apps, it will help you reduce Oracle app licences and support costs. 

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it_user247422 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO/Architect at Viscosity North America

Rating: since this is an early product, I think the good thing about it is it's moving up in the scale as opposed to moving flat. I'd probably give it a seven and a half and upwardly moving as it adopts to the industry standards.

My suggestion would be have a good organizational boundaries on how you're going to support this because it does tether around the borders of network, storage and database, so you have to have a good organizational definition of how you're going to support a configuration such as this.

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it_user1141074 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Technical Architect at UKCloud Ltd

My advice to others would be to wait before buying this program because the Oracle VM server is about to die and the PCA will probably evolve into using Oracle Linux KVM. This means that, if you buy the PCA, you will have to migrate your machines into the new platform. So they should just be aware of the fact that the software they're using is about to change and there will be a different management system, called Oracle Linux Utilization Manager. Everything will change. So, right now is probably not the best time to buy the PCA.

Additional features I would you like in the next release would be automation and better management. On a scale from one to 10, I will rate Oracle Private Cloud Appliance a six.

I think that it's quite powerful as a platform but there are way too much work to be done. For instance, if you buy this program there are so many things you must do first before you can actually roll out into production. You have to build the tools yourself to make the management easier and you have to understand cloud control and Oracle VM Manager. And the patching system is too faulty, because every time you patch something, you break something else. You patch a component, you break something else.

And in monitoring, for example, cloud control doesn't work well and there are loads of work to be done as it is right now. And that's why my rating is low.

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