FlexPod XCS vs Oracle Exalogic [EOL] comparison

NetApp and Oracle are both solutions in the Converged Infrastructure category. Additionally, 96% of NetApp users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 75% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

FlexPod XCS

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96% willing to recommend

Oracle Exalogic [EOL]

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75% willing to recommend

FlexPod XCS

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Categories and Ranking

FlexPod XCS

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

295

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Oracle Exalogic [EOL]

Average Rating

7.2

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Featured Reviews

John Kevin

Deputy IT Manager at MBBank

Enforces standardized setup procedures following Certified Validated Design (CVD) guidelines and offers greater flexibility and control over the system compared to traditional systems

The GUI setup follows the right setup, meaning we have to follow the CVDi.e. Certified Validated Design. Everything is clear, because you can build CI yourself, but without rules, it can be messy. With FlexPod, there are rules to follow, making it more standardized. This helps with troubleshooting and compatibility assessments, simplifying troubleshooting significantly. We also use FlexPod pre-validated architectures to validate the design. It is very, very important to us because we had a bad case in 2015 where separate items integrated poorly due to no version or firmware compatibility certification. Troubleshooting became a nightmare. So, standards are crucial for us, and everything entering production should be verified or at least documented for certification.

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Mohammad Yasir Kamal

AGM at Tech Valley Networks Limited

Good performance and stability with a straightforward setup

Typically, if a client needs support, they contact us and we are the ones to offer it to them. However, we have contacted Oracle technical support and we have a back-to-back contract with them. They support our HR on-site team. We also get support from Oracle functional services and backend support. They are usually quite good, but at times it depends on which engineer is working. When we get support from India, there's sometimes a delay. If it's from Europe or the US, often we get faster results. Time zones also affect technical support response times and will dictate who responds to our requests.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The Cisco Validated Designs are the most valuable feature along with the Industry-leading technology, put together; and the fact that it just works."

"It has been a great product, primarily because of a lot of its deduplication features, and the out-of-the-box thinking on block level storage from NetApp."

"The best thing about this solution is the tight integration with VMware, Cisco, and NetApp from both a hardware and software perspective."

"Centralized administration with Cisco UCS Director allows you to perform all administrative functions from a single interface, as well as automate tasks."

"It ships in a rack, so it is very easy to deploy."

"Everything is preconfigured. We can ship it and manage it remotely from any server. It is all in a box."

"The real benefit of this solution is that it is pre-architected with the ability to scale-up and scale-out."

"It takes all of the homework out of building the solution. The prearchitected design simplifies your deployment, gets you a quicker time to market, and a single point of support."

More FlexPod XCS pros

"The automation and provisioning of the environment, as well as the centralized monitoring, have all improved over the years."

"The main benefit of using the solution is for the performance it provides."

"Provides high-speed network, strong storage features (ZFS), High Availability out of the box, and is Integrated with a large number of products."

"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)."

"Exalogic offers integration with other engineered systems, which increases the throughput capability and enables processing of bigger and heavier workloads."

"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."

"Scalablility: When we need to upgrade from an eighth-rack to a full-rack, the real downtime is less then an hour."

Cons

"We haven't seen ROI yet."

"If you have expertise setting up such environments, then you are good, but for customers or novices, it becomes a nightmare and stuff may actually be left out."

"I would like them to integrate the NVIDIA GRID into the system, so we could easily deploy certain solutions with the FlexPod."

"Automatic tiering would be good to have."

"On the UCS side, sometimes it is difficult to set up."

"Unified management would be really nice, having one a single pane of glass to manage everything do with the solution."

"The solution could be improved by including automation for user updates."

"As we do much of the Tier-I support ourselves, and thus don't normally need it, there is time wasted in moving up to the next level."

More FlexPod XCS cons

"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."

"Middleware application services, such as statistics, data mining, could be better."

"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."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We fear high availability so we can't buy from different providers."

"Anytime that you are buying any storage make sure you understand storage. Do not just buy storage based on what somebody sells you in terms of IO or throughput."

"Make sure that you engage as much with whom you are buying from as a partnership, not just as a purchase."

"We have saved time and money for new service deployments."

"In terms of the cost, the last bill I saw was about $3.5 million, from the latest contract. That might have been for a five-year contract."

"Pricing and licensing is very affordable from a FlexPod perspective."

"We pay approximately $1,400 USD in total for between five-thousand and ten-thousand ports."

"Buy storage based on the solutions you need, the technologies you need, and what will make your life a lot easier down the road."

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"Get the price of the license you will need for the middleware that will be running on top of the Exalogic. Otherwise, you can use another middleware solution, as long as it can run on top of Oracle Linux."

"To expand the hardware's capability requires a massive investment."

"Pricing and licensing are two very delicate aspects when talking about Oracle, especially engineered systems. The prices are quite high compared with other similar products, so the CapEx analysis and investment return have to be very well studied."

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Comparison Review

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Managing Consultant with 51-200 employees

Aug 30, 2015

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Small Business	34
Midsize Enterprise	66
Large Enterprise	182

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Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	14

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about FlexPod?

The system is designed for easy scaling. Because we define everything clearly. So when we plug the system in, we apply the profile, and it scales easily.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for FlexPod?

The pricing is not cheaper, but stability is more important for us now. We focus on business gains, not static numbers. Following XCS rules ensures a stable environment, which is crucial. For me, C...

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What needs improvement with FlexPod?

FlexPod should focus more on automation. Integrating an automation tool with FlexPod would enable customers to leverage automation capabilities. More automation would be helpful. Currently, we cont...

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Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud

Overview

FlexPod XCS is the secure platform your applications need from edge to cloud. Easily manage your suite of cloud-native, edge, and enterprise apps. Integrate advanced cloud services without compromising performance, security, reliability, or scale.

NetApp

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud is a datacenter building block that integrates compute, networking and storage hardware with virtualization, operating system and management software. It provides breakthrough performance, reliability, availability, scalability and investment protection for the widest possible range of business application workloads, from middleware and custom applications to packaged applications from Oracle and hundreds of 3rd party vendors, in both conventional and cloud deployments. As an Oracle Engineered System, Oracle Exalogic delivers faster deployment, higher user productivity, lower TCO, reduced risk and one-stop support.

For more information on Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, visit Oracle.com

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