We performed a comparison between FlexPod XCS and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance 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."The product is easy to deploy and use."
"The ease at which it scales and its redundancy factors. It's extremely redundant and easy-to-scale."
"The tool's most valuable features are the flexibility and ability to adapt to redundancy."
"It is very stable. We have had absolutely zero problems."
"The most valuable thing for me is the shorter time to market."
"FlexPod provides very small footprint. We can have it in our offices without bothering with extra cooling, as it is a small unit."
"For the management side of our UCS, it is a single pane of glass for multiple people, whether it is data center, sysadmin, or server deployment."
"I have never seen a more resilient HA product out there then NetApp's solution. If I want to know that I'm putting my workload on a solution, from a storage perspective, that is going to be up 100% of the time, I'm going to choose NetApp."
"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."
"You will find the high availability and License Team with Oracle very valuable."
"The most valuable features include distinct storage within the Oracle PCA."
"Supports connection to most of network topology, such as VLAN and network segmentation."
"I had one problem at the site where I had an aggregate that would not shrink after I had deleted some stuff. It took a few tries to get the right guy on the call. We do have a NetApp SAM with our company, and it really took getting to him to get the solution fixed."
"It would be helpful to have more flexibility for adding other components."
"The upgrades should be improved. We would like to have the ability to do unified upgrades of the whole infrastructure from beginning to end."
"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."
"The interface is a little convoluted."
"Not a ten because it could always be cheaper, it could always be faster."
"There could be room for improvement in terms of offering more flexibility in CBD options."
"We have had bugs which have been released, even though they have been minor."
"In comparison to competitors like VMware, there's a perceived need for Oracle to enhance OVM, making it more flexible and user-friendly."
"OVM Manager Interface is using HTML5. It should be reconverted to be a Java interface."
"The initial setup was very complex."
"Patching processing takes a long time. Only one compute node is patched at a time."
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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, Oracle Exadata, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail and Dell VxBlock System, whereas Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is most compared with Oracle SuperCluster, Rackspace OpenStack, Dell VxBlock System, HPE ConvergedSystem and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform CI Series.
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