We performed a comparison between Dell XC Appliance [EOL] and Oracle SuperCluster based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"We are able to execute maintenance on one server while the other is still running."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere is a software-defined storage solution that has reduced administration time for storage. It's pretty straightforward to install and setup it and so far it has been robust and worked as advertised from StarWind."
"The solution is also quite flexible. As an example, other vSAN solutions that we looked at had more stringent requirements regarding mixed HDD/SSD storage which wouldn't have worked in our environment."
"The most valuable feature is that you can assign a volume to an off-shore workload on the fly."
"When we compare it to normal hardware servers, I'd say it is quite easy to configure and deploy."
"The solution's best feature is its simplicity. It's so simple to deploy it. You've got the VMware, and it's own appliance. It is really helpful. The system is online within half a day and saves so much time."
"The most valuable features are the deduplication and the compression features."
"The most valuable feature is the low management overhead, and the lower skill set required to manage it."
"What I like the most is that it is easy to implement, easy deployment and that it's easy to manage."
"The solution's hardware is great."
"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)."
"Unix is not as easy for the users, it needs more maintenance and costs extra."
"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 performance is significantly improved, and the administration is easy because it is a single platform end-to-end."
"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."
"A valuable feature is the Exadata Storage appliance, optimized for database queries."
"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."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"While we had no problems setting the system up, and service technicians from StarWind could assist us very well, they could provide some form of in-depth documentation."
"In the next release, they could make some graphs of the real-time loading, speed of storage, and interfaces. Of course, these can be viewed in other places. But, in the event of a malfunction or troubleshooting, this would be convenient."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"Dell needs to do a lot of work to simplify the maintenance and life-cycle upgrades for the product."
"In the next release, I would like to see support for Docker and containers."
"There should be more provisioning capabilities within the solution."
"The cost of using the public cloud deployment is astronomical."
"Currently, there is no support for the servers that are not in the cluster."
"The solution's storage size could be improved."
"We are not always advised of new features or updates, so we must research to stay up to date."
"Not a very user friendly solution."
"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."
"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."
"If they had an application that centralized the administration, not about the monitoring, but for the configuration, it would be better."
"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."
"I would like to see control domain and zone management via a management console, similar to that of OVM."
"We have faced network connectivity issues."
Dell XC Appliance [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI while Oracle SuperCluster is ranked 7th in Converged Infrastructure with 12 reviews. Dell XC Appliance [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Oracle SuperCluster is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Dell XC Appliance [EOL] writes "Turnkey solution with low management costs that is easy to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle SuperCluster writes "Great performance all round, but lacking in certain cloud features". Dell XC Appliance [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Oracle SuperCluster is most compared with Oracle Private Cloud Appliance.
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