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."Our downtime has significantly been reduced."
"The most valuable feature is the one call number for support and the fact that all the documentation comes with it. They have all of the preprepared plans for the deployment model and we can just choose which one we want for VMware, etc. The hardware is all listed. We buy that and away we go. It's called validated design."
"The solution is innovative when it comes to compute storage and networking. Each environment has knowledge of another in a FlexPod environment. This would be difficult to operate separately."
"It runs very well lights out. Set it and forget it."
"ONTAP is the core of FlexPod, so its most valuable features are: FlexClone, Snapshot, and SnapCenter."
"Technical support has been good when we have contacted them in the past. They have been helpful."
"UCS Profiles enable recovering a physical server in less than 15 minutes."
"The most valuable feature is the one support. Anytime that a customer buys a solution for a server, storage, or network, once they have trouble in their environment, everyone wants to find out who was wrong. With FlexPod, everyone is wrong and there is unified support. The best way to solve the problem is have it be everyone's problem, not just one person's problem. For FlexPod, you can call NetApp or Cisco, and I think it's the best way to solve the problem that the customer has."
"A very stable solution, which we have hardly any problems with."
"This product can noticeably enhance performance of contextual Oracle databases."
"The product is flexible."
"We can use virtualization on Exadata."
"The data replication is very good."
"Complete management occurs from one single address instead of different servers."
"What I found most valuable in Oracle Exadata is its newer technology that gives better performance. It has more recent hardware and significant changes in the architecture, so it's better than older solutions."
"Before using this machine, we took no less than two days to run a report. Now, we can do it within five hours. So, there is a lot of improvement."
"FlexPod can improve with a single control management interface to manage all aspects and components of the solution."
"I would like them to simplify the UCS configuration. I appreciate that they have about a billion options and a million switches that you can mess with, but this creates a lot of confusion sometimes. I feel like you almost need a Master's course to figure out what you're doing with UCS."
"Sometimes, when the newer versions of any of the partners’ firmware or software come out, there's still sometimes a lag of the partners to support all of those new components."
"I have noticed a lot of customers, they will kick it over the fence. It is FlexPod; it is that mystery animal. The room for improvement is to better present it to those users, so they will not have to be afraid of it."
"There are too many drivers and software combined all together, and we need to have compatibility between all of them."
"I would like to have the installation of the top virtualization on its own rather than doing it through the admin. For example, if FlexPod is configured after the configuration of the host, the ESXi is installed also, but it should be part of it rather than doing it as a separate system."
"Not a ten because it could always be cheaper, it could always be faster."
"They could improve their technical support team. They need to have a specific phone number for you to call in for the FlexPod solution. Some of the partner support knows if it is for FlexPod, they will get you to the right department."
"Oracle Exadata could improve by having faster data retrieval. We receive data at four or five seconds and want to reduce that number to one second."
"Checking the Smart Scan issues is complicated."
"The handling of temp space has room for improvement."
"Since the product is an appliance, it is very costly."
"We had issues with system restoration."
"Oracle Exadata could improve the platform performance tuning should be easier, automated, and user-friendly."
"There's room for improvement in terms of deployment, as it could be made faster and more user-friendly."
"The scalability can be improved as it is not a parallel execution."
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 BigQuery.
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