We performed a comparison between Dell VxBlock System and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance 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."It's a highly optimized piece of equipment that doesn't give us any problems."
"Integration with VMware and VMotion definitely brings a lot of value."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the speed."
"Its performance is very good."
"It's at least 99 percent problem-free because it's factory-built. So from an informational point of view, everyone trusts that VxBlock has been tested well at the factory and has been configured to their requirements."
"Virtual machines for the infrastructure."
"The monitoring and management parts are the most valuable. Monitoring is specifically valuable because you have one console to monitor everything. This console is called Vision."
"In comparison to traditional file load systems, Dell VxBlock System can be deployed quickly and results in monthly cost savings."
"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."
"Supports connection to most of network topology, such as VLAN and network segmentation."
"You will find the high availability and License Team with Oracle very valuable."
"The most valuable features include distinct storage within the Oracle PCA."
"Does not support different kinds of mixed applications."
"Lacks flexibility with third-party applications."
"There are components of VxBlock that are not managed or supported by Dell because some of the components are from Cisco. Thus, when there are problems with compute nodes, though Dell was managing the interaction, we had to rely on Cisco to solve the issue. When Cisco was not responding as quickly as Dell would for their components, it made it difficult for us because we needed to have the failed nodes back up and running. As such, the disparate ownership of components in the equipment is an issue."
"This solution does not support Hyper-V, and we would like the new version to be supported and certified to work with Hyper-V."
"It is a good product, but for us, it is like a black box. We are not really sure about its internal components, and how to do the terminal upgrade, and how to make sure about the security of the device. We understand how it works, but in order to do the upgrades, we have to get help from the company. We cannot do it ourselves. In another model that we had, the internal team could do the upgrade but not in this one. There is no clear process for a new upgrade or update. They should provide a software intelligence tool that has a dashboard where you can see the current firmware, the latest firmware, and the documentation and the process for the upgrade. For VxBlock, we have different management consoles. There is no single management console that you can use to manage all components inside VxBlock. Their scale up and scale out process is also not clear. Their support is also a little bit slow in responding to the cases."
"We are finding it a bit challenging in terms of the management of a specific VxBlock component. Currently, we have different units as a part of the block storage. We have one for Cisco equipment and one for Dell. When we have an issue in the infrastructure, Dell EMC VxBlock System should automatically detect it and send a notification to VC support, but, unfortunately, it is doing that only for one unit. It is not working for Cisco components. We have informed them about this area of improvement, and they are working on this. The way different parts are integrated should be improved. We should have one console to log in to see all the infrastructure in terms of each machine and hardware."
"The hardware lifecycle is not documented very well. For example, now you can buy a piece of equipment, but you don't know if the hardware is going to be a team production next month or next year."
"It's a good product but the price could be lowered. It's expensive."
"OVM Manager Interface is using HTML5. It should be reconverted to be a Java interface."
"Patching processing takes a long time. Only one compute node is patched at a time."
"The initial setup was very complex."
"In comparison to competitors like VMware, there's a perceived need for Oracle to enhance OVM, making it more flexible and user-friendly."
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Dell VxBlock System is ranked 4th in Converged Infrastructure with 12 reviews while Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is ranked 5th in Converged Infrastructure with 5 reviews. Dell VxBlock System is rated 7.8, while Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dell VxBlock System writes "Can be deployed quickly, is easy to manage, and is stable and resilient". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Private Cloud Appliance writes "A highly efficient choice for deploying scalable and reliable middleware applications". Dell VxBlock System is most compared with Dell PowerEdge VRTX, FlexPod XCS, Dell Vscale Architecture, IBM VersaStack and HPE ConvergedSystem, whereas Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is most compared with Oracle SuperCluster, HPE ConvergedSystem, Rackspace OpenStack, Hitachi Unified Compute Platform CI Series and Dell PowerEdge VRTX.
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