We performed a comparison between FlexPod XCS and Oracle Exadata 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's a common platform, which provides for ease of use between all of the blade servers. It uses all the same tech, moving service profiles seamlessly across from one blade to the next. There is also combined support."
"The product is robust, stable, and has flexibility."
"The ease at which it scales and its redundancy factors. It's extremely redundant and easy-to-scale."
"For our DR, we rely heavily on SnapMirror technologies to accomplish our disaster recovery in VMware SRM."
"The flexibility, operational efficiency, and scalability of FlexPod has been a huge factor for us because our customers have workloads that need to run on classical HTTPs, flash storage, or possibly in the cloud. This flexibility and enhanced ability of the solution is very important for this. We trust in it."
"It allowed us to scale out as our business grew without any issues."
"CVDs reduce risks for implementations. We always make sure that all installations are based on best practices."
"I am happy with the stability. I haven't had any major issues with it in four years. This includes upgrades."
"Oracle Exadata has very good hardware."
"Oracle has reliable solutions and this one is no different."
"What I like best about Oracle Exadata is its good performance. It's also a very fast solution."
"Exadata is a fantastic machine. Two features stand out. The first is the resource input/output management tool that allows you to manage the resources to the neck on the Exadata box."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is the integration with other solutions, such as SAN storage and shared VLAN network."
"Backup/Restore performance: Fast backups, fast restores (especially useful for creating clone environments)."
"It has improved the performance, now we run with more performance cores with less CPU to attend all the database demands. Reducing Time to Market, increase our ability to face the competition with speed and low cost."
"They just have a lot of products, and they work well together."
"There are too many management products: System Insight Manager, Oakum, etc. There are a lot of them and you have to know which one to use at which time. Whereas, with competitors, they have a single pane of glass view which has everything in it."
"We don't see the much DR capability within the FlexPod so for that, we have to maintain our own DR capability with DSRM."
"On the UCS side, sometimes it is difficult to set up."
"The procedure for contacting technical support could be simplified."
"The initial learning curve is pretty steep."
"A piece where FlexPod has come up short in the past and an area for them to improve upon: single pane of glass management and single pane of glass upgrade process."
"I would like to see increased performance."
"There is always room for improvement. I believe we can do hot swaps on the fly. On the release upgrades, if there was a way to do a release on the fly, that would really be cool because it does take some downtime. It takes restarting. It is more of a software thing. Customers hate doing releases."
"We have experienced some issues with processing unstructured data on Exadata. This is an important requirement for our AIML based use case. Reactive analytics data can not be prepared easily in Oracle Exadata."
"There is room for improvement with the handling of the Temp IO, which is often used for JOIN statements."
"In a future release, I would like to see some upgrade analysis advisors to help with a clear roadmap on steps that need to be taken and some of the automated processes."
"Oracle Exadata could improve the monitoring system in the enterprise manager, it could be more user-friendly. In most Oracle tools there is a lot of functionality, and sometimes you need to do five or six clicks to find metrics, and sometimes it's a waste of time."
"The solution lacks a visualized console."
"The solution takes a lot of time to clone the environment. I would like to see some improvement in the cloning support or the time it takes on the storage side."
"Oracle Exadata has room for improvement in pricing, especially for smaller companies. The solution is okay for bigger companies, but for smaller companies, it isn't."
"The initial setup process is very difficult and extremely complex."
FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews while Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 124 reviews. FlexPod XCS is rated 8.6, while Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of FlexPod XCS writes "Integrates everything so you are using fewer tools". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Offers a variety of valuable features". FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, Dell VxBlock System and Dell PowerEdge VRTX, whereas Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake and Teradata Cloud Data Warehouse.
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