Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Reviews

Name: Oracle Private Cloud Appliance
Brand: Oracle
Rating: 4.0 (5 reviews)

4.0 out of 5

5 reviews
85% willing to recommend

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What is Oracle Private Cloud Appliance?

Oracle Private Cloud Appliance, is an integrated infrastructure system engineered to enable rapid deployment of converged compute, network, and storage technologies for hosting applications or workloads on a guest OS. It is a data center-class system that provides incremental and scalable performance optimized for consolidation of mixed workloads.

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Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is the #6 ranked solution in top Converged Infrastructure solutions. PeerSpot users give Oracle Private Cloud Appliance an average rating of 8.0 out of 10. Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is most commonly compared to FlexPod XCS: Oracle Private Cloud Appliance vs FlexPod XCS. Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 55% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 27% of all views.

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Oracle Private Cloud Appliance

December 2024

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MohamedKhalifa

Database and Middleware Technical Head at Riyadh Municipality

The most valuable features include distinct storage within the Oracle PCA. This separate storage is crucial as it serves both primary and secondary purposes. Additionally, high-priority elements encompass Lava switches for network functionality. Recent efforts have focused on efficient patching of the entire PCA stack, covering the master node, computing nodes, network switches, and storage components.

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Syed Jaffar Hussain

CTO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Initial system planning is most important; how to distribute the resources, configuring the virtual network, and the best usage of OEM is important for the new deployments. Besides, teams with VM concepts and background would be handy to execute the project. When you have such teams available, you're unlikely to encounter any serious issues during the deployment.

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reviewer602496

System Admin at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

* OVM Manager Interface is using HTML5. It should be reconverted to be a Java interface. * A VM server console is needed as an improvement, especially when GUI mode is active. * Oracle should provide the OVM client console per user based on his/her privileges to manage his dedicated resources and VM servers. * Patching processing takes a long time. Only one compute node is patched at a time. * Creating networks for PCA is done via CLI. It should moved to the OVM GUI with a clear diagram or graphics. * The PCA dashboard needs more enhancement to contain more info about the components and showing the external connective network links. * Internal ZFS storage at PCA is designed to be used for the OVM database, configurations data, and contain VM servers OS only. The customer has to attach an external storage from his own data (it is allowed to use non-Oracle storage), so this design is adding more complexity. I would prefer if Oracle provided another design or option with an internal scalable storage that can be used for both configurations data and customer data without the need to get external storage.

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Oracle Private Cloud Appliance mindshare

As of December 2024, the mindshare of Oracle Private Cloud Appliance in the Converged Infrastructure category stands at 13.4%, up from 11.4% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Category	Converged Infrastructure	Dec 22, 2024	Download
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Comparison	Oracle Private Cloud Appliance vs Dell PowerEdge VRTX	Dec 22, 2024	Download
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Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
FlexPod XCS	4.3	9.7%	96%	295 interviews Add to research
Dell PowerEdge VRTX	4.1	22.1%	88%	17 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"The most valuable features include distinct storage within the Oracle PCA."
"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."

Room for Improvement

"In comparison to competitors like VMware, there's a perceived need for Oracle to enhance OVM, making it more flexible and user-friendly."
"The initial setup was very complex."
"Patching processing takes a long time. Only one compute node is patched at a time."