We performed a comparison between Oracle Private Cloud Appliance and Rackspace OpenStack 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."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."
"You will find the high availability and License Team with Oracle very valuable."
"Supports connection to most of network topology, such as VLAN and network segmentation."
"The most valuable features include distinct storage within the Oracle PCA."
"The solution is stable."
"Administrators are very comfortable with the functionality and services OpenStack offers."
"Apart from the main features, I really appreciate OpenStack's microservices architecture and its flexibility for deployment with different tools."
"The most valuable feature is the customization. With the customization you can really give the customers what they want."
"I like its integration with GitLab and its simplicity. OpenStack has a lot of third-party libraries that it uses."
"It created a reusable library with OpenStack features."
"The documentation was plentiful and very helpful."
"The initial setup isn't too difficult."
"OVM Manager Interface is using HTML5. It should be reconverted to be a Java interface."
"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."
"VMware has a side-to-side replication feature, which is still more mature than Rackspace OpenStack's which can't be used in a production environment."
"OpenStack is difficult for the novice in terms of beginning to use cloud tools."
"The seamless integration between MySQL services and the rabbitMQ database can be revised during the debugging phase."
"OpenStack's UI, while user-friendly, could be improved to offer a more intuitive experience."
"It could use more examples in different languages (API use cases)."
"So for the main stability, there have been a couple of issues that I've experienced."
"The line migration is a problem."
"It should have a single dashboard for cloud management and on-premises systems"
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Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is ranked 5th in Converged Infrastructure with 5 reviews while Rackspace OpenStack is ranked 6th in Converged Infrastructure with 10 reviews. Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is rated 8.0, while Rackspace OpenStack is rated 8.0. 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 Rackspace OpenStack writes "A scalable open-source solution that needs some improvement with its ecosystem". Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is most compared with Oracle SuperCluster, HPE ConvergedSystem, Dell VxBlock System and Dell PowerEdge VRTX, whereas Rackspace OpenStack is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail and HPE SimpliVity. See our Oracle Private Cloud Appliance vs. Rackspace OpenStack report.
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