We performed a comparison between Oracle Private Cloud Appliance 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."It is scalable as the box can be increased by one compute node, if required."
"Supports connection to most of network topology, such as VLAN and network segmentation."
"The most valuable features include distinct storage within the Oracle PCA."
"It has helped us to reduce Oracle licensing costs for database and applications."
"You will find the high availability and License Team with Oracle very valuable."
"The two features that I find to be the most valuable are high availability and high performance."
"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."
"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."
"A valuable feature is the Exadata Storage appliance, optimized for database queries."
"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)."
"Scalability and technical support."
"OVM Manager Interface is using HTML5. It should be reconverted to be a Java interface."
"Patching processing takes a long time. Only one compute node is patched at a time."
"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."
"I would like to see control domain and zone management via a management console, similar to that of OVM."
"If they had an application that centralized the administration, not about the monitoring, but for the configuration, it would be better."
"We have faced network connectivity issues."
"Not a very user friendly solution."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is ranked 5th in Converged Infrastructure with 5 reviews while Oracle SuperCluster is ranked 7th in Converged Infrastructure with 12 reviews. Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is rated 8.0, while Oracle SuperCluster is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Oracle Private Cloud Appliance writes "A highly efficient choice for deploying scalable and reliable middleware applications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle SuperCluster writes "Great performance all round, but lacking in certain cloud features". Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is most compared with Rackspace OpenStack, HPE ConvergedSystem, Dell VxBlock System, Hitachi Unified Compute Platform CI Series and Dell PowerEdge VRTX, whereas Oracle SuperCluster is most compared with .
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