We performed a comparison between FlexPod XCS, IBM PurePower System, and Oracle SuperCluster 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."SolidFire all-flash block storage system in an existing FlexPod data center environment. This improves the agility and performance, including the additional load of cabling."
"The ability to converge a lot of different data and platforms into a single common platform, then scale horizontally and vertically."
"FlexPod has improved our company as far as ease of management, stability, and redundancy."
"FlexClone allows you to create copies of volumes in seconds, and without occupying physical space."
"It simplifies infrastructure from edge to port to cloud. It proves that deployment is easy and straightforward. There isn't any need to do extra work."
"Going from the old monolithic server and silo storage that they used to use is an improvement. With the FlexPod solution, just being able to manage and monitor the overall environment helps."
"It's a common platform, which provides for ease of use between all of the blade servers. It uses all the same tech, moving service profiles seamlessly across from one blade to the next. There is also combined support."
"FlexPod is easy to setup, maintain and has great stability."
"We never have any issues or glitches."
"A valuable feature is the Exadata Storage appliance, optimized for database queries."
"The performance is significantly improved, and the administration is easy because it is a single platform end-to-end."
"Scalability and technical support."
"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."
"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)."
"Our primary use case is for E-Business Suite applications the applications for the government, and most of the applications that use an HCM."
"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."
"Unix is not as easy for the users, it needs more maintenance and costs extra."
"Updates are not frequent enough."
"I'd like to see a little more on the provisioning and the replication piece... Also, I don't want to say analytics are lacking but I'd like to see more analytics."
"I would like to see better operations, a single pane of glass to manage and monitor the entire design across VMware, Cisco, etc. I would also like the upgrade process to be a little smoother."
"The solution could be improved by including automation for user updates."
"There have been issues upgrading the firmware."
"I would like more orchestration and networking in-between the VMs, the virtualization layer for networking. I would like to see better tools for this."
"Areas for improvement would be the support for the engineering team, who seem to have no clue when you open a case, the communication with and recognition of resellers, and the documentation, with could be more detailed."
"They could improve their technical support team. They need to have a specific phone number for you to call in for the FlexPod solution. Some of the partner support knows if it is for FlexPod, they will get you to the right department."
"The management is really difficult when it comes to systems with traditional services."
"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."
"Not a very user friendly solution."
"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."
"We have faced network connectivity issues."
"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."
"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."
"If they had an application that centralized the administration, not about the monitoring, but for the configuration, it would be better."
"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."
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