We performed a comparison between Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"The product's core feature of virtualizing our storage is by far the most valuable."
"The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"Highly available storage is the most valuable feature. The entire rollout is hyper-converged and requires no extra storage further than the hosts in which Hyper-V is running. Another feature that has been great is the support from StarWind in general. We have their proactive support package on the main cluster that employs Starwind Virtual SAN."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"I like StarWind's high availability. The failover is almost immediate, so the end users have no idea the guest VM moved at all. We can failover all guest VMs onto a single hypervisor, place it into maintenance mode, install updates, and reboot a hypervisor all during the daytime and remotely, with confidence the process will be successful."
"Virtual SAN runs on iSCSI, which is free and easy to configure. It's easy to manage from StarWind's GUI console, and it only required a few extra switch ports."
"This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business."
"The replication technology can move data faster than EMC MirrorView and requires less bandwidth. The Storage Virtualization technology is the most mature in the market, outside of IBM’s Storwize (which has a lot of compatibility issues, and EMC’s very expensive VPLEX solution); and it works."
"This solution allowed us to move from using standalone systems to having all our data center management in one place."
"In our implementations, HDS Storage Virtualization has helped in migrating data with the least amount of downtime, compared to other storage technologies."
"The most valuable features include distinct storage within the Oracle PCA."
"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."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"Scaling the product is fairly easy except for the computing aspect. It would entail another appliance. While not a show stopper, it isn't as easy as dropping in a few extra SSDs."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"For someone entering the IT sector with little knowledge of storage, iSCSI, and virtual disks, they might not find the GUI immediately obvious."
"An area for improvement would be technical support. In the next release, I would like to see more features added to make this a more complete solution."
"An update to its technology would be good. The G Series has been around for more than five years and HDS seriously needs to ramp up, since the competition has better performance at a lower cost with better features and functionalities. For example, it needs redirect on write Snapshot, preconfigured storage tiering with better IOPS, built-in deduplication technology on hybrid disk, etc."
"HDS reaches a ceiling depending on model. The G200 cannot transition to G400, the G400 can transition to G600 but cannot transition to G800, which is the top-end model."
"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."
"Patching processing takes a long time. Only one compute node is patched at a time."
"OVM Manager Interface is using HTML5. It should be reconverted to be a Java interface."
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Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is ranked 24th in HCI while Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is ranked 5th in Converged Infrastructure with 5 reviews. Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is rated 8.0, while Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series writes "Allows for centralized management with great interconnectivity". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Private Cloud Appliance writes "A highly efficient choice for deploying scalable and reliable middleware applications". Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, VMware vSAN and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is most compared with Oracle SuperCluster, Dell VxBlock System, Rackspace OpenStack, HPE ConvergedSystem and Dell PowerEdge VRTX.
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