We performed a comparison between FlexPod XCS and Oracle SuperCluster based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Converged Infrastructure solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"Our performance increase has been about 15 percent from what we previously used."
"All of our main applications run on this solution, and it has done a stellar job."
"We save days of work when doing new service deployments. With LUN clones we have a template provisioned for the image of our hypervisor on our NetApps, and we can deploy a brand new hypervisor in under an hour. Everything is scripted. We just clone a template LUN and boot from SAN, so there are no single points of failure."
"It's amazingly scalable. It just works. It can expand to large MetroClusters and keep expanding."
"The fact that it can run the entire stack in terms of protocols. The integration for most of our customers is VMware; the full-stack integration. Also, the ability to do rapid cloning."
"FlexClone allows you to create copies of volumes in seconds, and without occupying physical space."
"It is easy to add-on to the tool. If we need to add a new switch, a new server, or a new chassis for Blades, it is easy. It is not disruptive. You just do it."
"The solution’s unified support for the entire stack is critically important because we cannot afford downtime."
"Scalability and technical support."
"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)."
"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."
"Unix is not as easy for the users, it needs more maintenance and costs extra."
"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."
"A valuable feature is the Exadata Storage appliance, optimized for database queries."
"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."
"In the SolidFire interface, if you use the GUI, you have to create one run at a time, or one device at a time, which is something that needs to be fixed."
"There is a lot of documentation that has to be reviewed before you go through an upgrade. It is not as straightforward as some other solutions."
"The biggest thing that I would like to see is more cost-effective FlexPod solutions."
"I would like to see the following: Support for multiple vendors' hardware; support for SAN with Cisco 9000 switches; automated deployment and configuration with respect to CVD."
"There is always room for improvement. I believe we can do hot swaps on the fly. On the release upgrades, if there was a way to do a release on the fly, that would really be cool because it does take some downtime. It takes restarting. It is more of a software thing. Customers hate doing releases."
"The technical support is slightly above average. I would like them to have quicker escalation"
"We want always more speed, capacity, fluidity, and growth that we can easily integrate."
"The majority of the time, if we need more storage, then we need to work with customizing the NetApp deployment. Right now, we just do a generic deployment, then wherever we have a need for storage, we have to move some application out of the next FlexPod deployment. One thing is to customize based on the requirements, but the requirements change so frequently, they are absolutely obsolete in six months."
"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."
"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 they had an application that centralized the administration, not about the monitoring, but for the configuration, it would be better."
"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."
"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."
"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."
FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews while Oracle SuperCluster is ranked 7th in Converged Infrastructure with 12 reviews. FlexPod XCS is rated 8.6, while Oracle SuperCluster is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of FlexPod XCS writes "Integrates everything so you are using fewer tools". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle SuperCluster writes "Great performance all round, but lacking in certain cloud features". FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, Oracle Exadata, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail and Dell VxBlock System, whereas Oracle SuperCluster is most compared with Oracle Private Cloud Appliance. See our FlexPod XCS vs. Oracle SuperCluster report.
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