We performed a comparison between IBM PurePower System, Oracle SuperCluster, and Vblock [EOL] 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."We never have any issues or glitches."
"Our primary use case is for E-Business Suite applications the applications for the government, and most of the applications that use an HCM."
"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)."
"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."
"Scalability and technical support."
"The two features that I find to be the most valuable are high availability and high performance."
"The performance is significantly improved, and the administration is easy because it is a single platform end-to-end."
"Unix is not as easy for the users, it needs more maintenance and costs extra."
"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."
"It has improved system performance, batch times for off-hours processing, and reliability with production applications."
"It's an integrated box Mac solution, so it's a plug and play. The deployment and build is pre-made and ready to deploy. It makes it easy to apply."
"We have seen measurable increases in our system performance. Those increases have been directly measurable in application performance and the delivery of critical business information to our users."
"The most valuable features are reliability and high availability."
"The XtremIO All-Flash array delivers performance, reliability, and deduplication."
"Capability for scale and growth within a single rack brings strong possibilities for capacity planning."
"Some of the key features are the ease of operation and access, without constraining actions. The tool is available to actually move things around, do things quickly quickly."
"UCS Manager worked well for net/blade management and has allowed fairly easy use of dedicated bare-metal blades."
"The management is really difficult when it comes to systems with traditional services."
"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."
"We have faced network connectivity issues."
"I would like to see control domain and zone management via a management console, similar to that of OVM."
"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."
"Not a very user friendly solution."
"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."
"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."
"RCM upgrades were not scripted, and you needed to roll on your own. We were led to believe this would be otherwise."
"Tighter alignment could simplify and speed up the configuration and delivery process."
"RCM upgrades are painful."
"The implementation and support could be better."
"The user control could be more advanced. They should work to improve this in future releases."
"Troublesome relationships with VCE at the beginning of our use came undone quickly after we went live."
"I would like to see them improve their switching infrastructure and rely on Cisco configurations. They are a bit more complex and technical, but result in a slightly reduced cost in terms of switching on the network side of it."
"The integration with other vendors' products needs to be looked at. It's not as flexible as we would like it to be."
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