We performed a comparison between Oracle Exadata and VxRail based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Snowflake Computing, Oracle, Teradata and others in Data Warehouse."Parallelism is the most valuable feature."
"Oracle has reliable solutions and this one is no different."
"Oracle is known to be the number one in their industry; the help and support, the features they are giving the clients comparing to other databases, the new technology, the provide a good solution."
"We can use virtualization on Exadata."
"The new Exadata x9m has an even higher speed of 100GBps connectivity."
"Compression is a great feature, where one can really save a lot of storage."
"Oracle Exadata's performance is one of its best features. We very satisfied with it."
"The offloading of data to the SIM is a valuable feature."
"I would recommend VxRail, it works for most of the use cases."
"The initial setup was not complex."
"Updating the product has been very easy."
"VxRail is a simple, efficient solution. It's easy to upgrade and scale the solution. If we increase our user base, we can easily scale it out. We have several thousand using it now."
"This solution optimizes our clients' resources."
"It is scalable. When you are buying it, you have to buy a minimum of three nodes. After that, if you want to add more nodes, you can buy can buy them. You can also add-on additional compute and storage."
"The support has been excellent, especially if you compare it to IBM."
"This is a good solution if you want to deploy an ACI Environment but don't have all the necessary resources."
"It's too expensive per terabyte. It's complex."
"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."
"It would be nice to have a single click button to, say, migrate my VMware VM into the Oracle VM, or vice-versa."
"Checking the Smart Scan issues is complicated."
"I would like to see more database features and maybe more archiving features, because we need to do data archiving."
"Patching must be simplified."
"I liked Spark, but it was discontinued when Exadata L6 came back. I loved it, and I wish they would bring back Spark integration."
"A room for improvement in Oracle Exadata is that it's not very easy to use in a microservices environment. It's not easy to split databases, and if this was easier to do in Oracle Exadata, it would make the solution better. What I'd like to see in the next release of Oracle Exadata is for it to become more modular, so you can use it in a context where the data layer is spread between many independent services."
"The licensing costs are too expensive. They should work on their pricing model."
"They should add automation and activation going forward."
"I would love to see license migration from one host to another."
"What I find very valuable is VxRail's life cycle management. The life cycle management takes care of everything from firmware to the actual upgrading of the hypervisor and keeps everything up to level."
"This solution needs to have the capability where even older versions of hardware can be seamlessly utilized and additional expansion becomes so much easier."
"The full solution is not completely included as a bundle, such as we see with SimpliVity."
"They should have better compatibility with other processors, such as AMD processors."
"Right now, it's difficult for a non-technical person to participate in using the product. It could be made more consumer-friendly."
Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 124 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 115 reviews. Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Offers a variety of valuable features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake and Amazon Redshift, whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series.
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Although the VxRail is considered as the #1 HCI solution for its reliability & performance, yet unfortunate when it comes to an Oracle solution ... it won't be considered as the best infrastructure choice ... and it's not due to the performance or the architecture, but in fact, the whole blame goes to Oracle license base (core base), as you may see ... VxRail is based on VMWare license, where Oracle condition when you are going to deploy it over VMWare, you will need to license the whole host cores (not only the assigned Virtual cores to the VM), so if you have a VxRail cluster that consists of 4 nodes for example, and each node have dual sockets 16 cores, then although you are assigning only 8 Cores for the Oracle VM, yet you will need to pay for the whole host cores (32 core) which a huge amount of money, and you will pay the double if you are going to deploy in high availability mood.
So you see, the issue is from the Oracle side not from VxRail, Alternatively ... you can deploy all of your application over the VxRail cluster, including the Oracle application, yet for the Oracle database, use a physical server with high CPU frequency and low no of cores ... for example (Intel Xeon Gold 5222 3.8G, 4Core / Intel Xeon Silver 4215R 3.2G, 8Core), and you may use a single socket server which will allow you for upgrading later on.
You may have to pay too much for the Oracle license.
You can try the HPE Synergy platform so that dedicated two physical nodes for Oracle with less core count, REST apps and other VMS run on an HCI cluster managed in the same frame.