We performed a comparison between FlexPod XCS and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance 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."The fact that it can run the entire stack in terms of protocols. The integration for most of our customers is VMware; the full-stack integration. Also, the ability to do rapid cloning."
"It reduced the total cost of ownership."
"All-flash storage and low latency I/O enhance performance."
"It runs very well lights out. Set it and forget it."
"We initially started out with siloed clusters and now we've been able to cluster everything together so that we have multiple nodes in our clusters. We have multiples on different data in different data centers. We've able to do replication between data centers. That's been very beneficial for us as we look to derive a mature DR model."
"FlexClone allows you to create copies of volumes in seconds, and without occupying physical space."
"The product is easy to deploy and use."
"The validated design is really important for us because it gives us a model on which to base our architecture and continued support for all firmware upgrades. It also provides consistency throughout the environment."
"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."
"The most valuable features include distinct storage within the Oracle PCA."
"It has helped us to reduce Oracle licensing costs for database and applications."
"It is scalable as the box can be increased by one compute node, if required."
"We use technical support from time to time. Most of the time if we really need assistance we end up having to get above the tier one support. We're able to do a lot of the tier one troubleshooting on our own."
"The networking configurations with UCS need improvement."
"It could be more innovative."
"Hardware stability needs improvement. We replaced a lot of RAM this past year. We had to replace the complete blade once after extensive troubleshooting. Any given time, we have approximately one blade down within the entire infrastructure, unfortunately."
"This is an expensive solution."
"FlexPods can include the new networking and new virtualization of storage and data center interconnectivity with the networking side of it. They can evolve and grow by connecting pods together."
"Compatibility issues with replication. The Oracle table formats were not working and storage replications did not work as well, until we had to introduce other components to make it work."
"According to the product managers, there are some new products coming which will address some of our concerns around portability and compliance."
"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."
"The initial setup was very complex."
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FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews while Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is ranked 5th in Converged Infrastructure with 5 reviews. FlexPod XCS is rated 8.6, while Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of FlexPod XCS writes "Integrates everything so you are using fewer tools". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Private Cloud Appliance writes "A highly efficient choice for deploying scalable and reliable middleware applications". FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, Oracle Exadata and Dell VxBlock System, whereas Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is most compared with Oracle SuperCluster, HPE ConvergedSystem, Rackspace OpenStack, Dell VxBlock System and Dell PowerEdge VRTX. See our FlexPod XCS vs. Oracle Private Cloud Appliance report.
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