Oracle Exalogic [EOL] vs Vblock [EOL] comparison

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Oracle and Dell Technologies are both solutions in the Converged Infrastructure category. Additionally, 75% of Oracle users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 84% of Dell Technologies users who would recommend it.

Oracle Exalogic [EOL]

Read 21 Oracle Exalogic [EOL] reviews

75% willing to recommend

Vblock [EOL]

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84% willing to recommend

Oracle Exalogic [EOL]

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We performed a comparison between Oracle Exalogic [EOL] and Vblock [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle Exalogic [EOL]

Average Rating

7.2

Number of Reviews

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Vblock [EOL]

Average Rating

8.0

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Featured Reviews

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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Tahir Shahid

Chief Consultant and Architect at Tahir Professional Services

Centrally-managed and stable, but the initial setup could be made simpler and technical support can be improved

There is a different platform and there are different interfaces for different parts of the product. Although there are some centralized components, you still manage each component using its own set of tools. There is definitely room for improvement in this regard. I would like to have a catalogue like menu where you simply define your end computing needs and the rest would be taken care of internally. The initial setup could be unified to make it simpler.

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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 most valuable feature I've seen in the Exalogic platform is the integration it has with the Exadata."

"This product has improved our organization by giving us better performance on WebLogic-based applications."

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

"We get better performance and utilization of resources since it was implemented, and it has helped to reduce the batch cycle from over 40 hours to about eight."

"This product offers a strong infrastructure with compute, storage, and network in a private cloud environment, enabling the organization to concentrate on business application development and improvement."

"However, the overall system runs five times faster than it did on IBM hardware."

"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."

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"The Vblock is designed to make IT life simpler (infrastructure framework) and more cost effective (an appliance) for an organization."

"The most valuable feature is that it is centrally managed, as it is quite easy for our customers to manage everything, end-to-end."

"This solution has rock-solid reliability."

"Finding a fully bundled, deployed, and configured solution with a short delivery time and unique support is really attractive."

"Legacy built architecture disappeared with VCE converged infrastructure, as only one person with transversal knowledge can achieve the Logical Configuration Survey, resulting in a strong and powerful infrastructure with nearly no downtime, and this is well known by the VCE technical support."

"Not having to worry about the firmware integrations with the software infrastructure components has been grand."

"The solution was implemented by the VCE team, and they did a great job."

"UCS Manager worked well for net/blade management and has allowed fairly easy use of dedicated bare-metal blades."

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Cons

"OTD (Oracle Traffic Director) is failover architecture and is not as robust as advertised. Additionally, SSO and several other features sometimes went down."

"Exadata's current speed is almost enough but sometimes much slower than the older mainframe systems, so some performance improvements would be helpful."

"I would like to see more than four virtual disk capability in future versions of this product."

"After this, you need to be prepared to rely on your team or the vendor support team because you’re going to face small but frequent issues."

"The product is good but complex, and requires extensive internal knowledge to build it up and support."

"There's a lot of additional features I would like to see in the Exalogic. The user interface would be nice to better integrate into Enterprise Manager 13 and eliminate the whole EMOC layer to the Exalogic."

"We have encountered stability issues: a storage failure that led to Exalogic being fully down' sometimes the storage cluster OCFS2 used for the OVM repository had stopped working and could not be mounted; finally, after many months, Oracle support discovered problems with InfiniBand (IB) host channel adapters (HCAs) that connect ZFS storage to the hosts and many firmware upgrades."

"The administration of the VMs is cumbersome and lacks features that are taken for granted in other virtualization platforms – many administrative and availability features, even available in traditional OVM, are not available on Exalogic."

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"The implementation and support could be better."

"It's pretty good, but not great."

"The initial setup was complex. The LCS was a nightmare."

"VCE tools, like Vision or AMP were not stand alone, and depended too much on other management consoles."

"It needs more customer/client involvement in back-end management."

"In the next release, I would like to see a smaller footprint in the data center and have improvements to disk performance."

"The user control could be more advanced. They should work to improve this in future releases."

"I would like to see them improve their switching infrastructure and rely on Cisco configurations. They are a bit more complex and technical, but result in a slightly reduced cost in terms of switching on the network side of it."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"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."

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

"I would not say the pricing is not good value. It is still on the expensive side, near the top-end of cost compared to what's available now. Also, the licensing has to be improved. There has to be a clear definition of the licensing from the initial set-up so the customer knows what they are paying for, without being hit later on with extra licensing. The licensing definitions should be clearer and, perhaps, have one set of licenses rather than multiple licenses."

"The paid support for Vblock is expensive."

"Vblock appears from the first while to be very expensive. There are more items you cannot see in the BOQ: customer service, support, delivery short time, and highly experienced VCE engineers."

"Strive for a consolidated ELA."

"I think the pricing is on the higher end of the spectrum. There could be some adjustments that could be made there. Regarding licensing, watch compatibility with external products that you run on Vblock. It has got to be properly architected, otherwise, you will run into licensing issues."

"Vblock is priced at a premium because people don't want the headache of managing and deploying different products."

"It is not cheap."

"Related to tech support: I believe it is too expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Construction Company

21%

Outsourcing Company

16%

Marketing Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Outsourcing Company

12%

Performing Arts

11%

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	14

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	16

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Also Known As

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud

VCE Vblock

Overview

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

Oracle

VCE Vblock Systems is an all-in-one virtualization platform that integrates the leading storage, network, and compute technologies from the likes of EMC, VMware and Cisco. VCE Vblock allows organizations to easily and securely deploy cloud computing and virtualization in their environments, supporting these multiple technologies and providing flexibility and agility for changing business needs.

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Sascar, Banca Transilvania, UL, Agilent, Reliance Commercial Finance, PT Bank Central Asia Tbk, Bank of Qingdao, Yarra Valley Water, FAW Car Co. Ltd.

Xerox, ACS, and Columbia Sportswear.

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