We performed a comparison between Dell XC Appliance [EOL] and Oracle Exalogic [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."It has improved our organization in terms of its uptime as our main cluster has never been offline due to a SAN failure."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"The StarWind products have enabled our organization to modernize stations where larger and more expensive equipment was not an option."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"The most valuable feature is that you can assign a volume to an off-shore workload on the fly."
"The most valuable feature is the low management overhead, and the lower skill set required to manage it."
"When we compare it to normal hardware servers, I'd say it is quite easy to configure and deploy."
"What I like the most is that it is easy to implement, easy deployment and that it's easy to manage."
"The solution's hardware is great."
"The most valuable features are the deduplication and the compression features."
"The solution's best feature is its simplicity. It's so simple to deploy it. You've got the VMware, and it's own appliance. It is really helpful. The system is online within half a day and saves so much time."
"The main benefit of using the solution is for the performance it provides."
"Scalablility: When we need to upgrade from an eighth-rack to a full-rack, the real downtime is less then an hour."
"Exalogic offers integration with other engineered systems, which increases the throughput capability and enables processing of bigger and heavier workloads."
"The automation and provisioning of the environment, as well as the centralized monitoring, have all improved over the years."
"Enterprise high-speed interoperability: With IPoIB we can deliver to other environments, either IP-Ethernet-based or IP-InfiniBand-based protocol, both with minimum bandwidth capacity of 10Gbps, 20Gbps, or 40Gbps, redundantly."
"Server consolidation. In a cloud architecture, moving the HA VM from one to other is faster. This is because of the InfiniBand network fabric between the compute nodes and storage nodes (ZFS Storage)."
"Provides high-speed network, strong storage features (ZFS), High Availability out of the box, and is Integrated with a large number of products."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"A central management console may be nice to see all nodes."
"There should be more provisioning capabilities within the solution."
"We are not always advised of new features or updates, so we must research to stay up to date."
"The solution's storage size could be improved."
"Currently, there is no support for the servers that are not in the cluster."
"Dell needs to do a lot of work to simplify the maintenance and life-cycle upgrades for the product."
"The cost of using the public cloud deployment is astronomical."
"In the next release, I would like to see support for Docker and containers."
"The solution is prone to disk failures. This needs to improve. Over the past four years we've had to replace about six of them. They've failed almost every three to six months."
"The solution needs to add a network virtualization feature similar to that of VxRail. If they could implement that, it would be great for the product."
"Middleware application services, such as statistics, data mining, could be better."
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Dell XC Appliance [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI while Oracle Exalogic [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI. Dell XC Appliance [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Oracle Exalogic [EOL] is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Dell XC Appliance [EOL] writes "Turnkey solution with low management costs that is easy to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Exalogic [EOL] writes "Enables you to control middleware licenses and apps. EMOC needs more attention and simplification". Dell XC Appliance [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Oracle Exalogic [EOL] is most compared with .
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