We performed a comparison between Oracle Exalogic [EOL] and VMware vSAN 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."Exalogic offers integration with other engineered systems, which increases the throughput capability and enables processing of bigger and heavier workloads."
"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)."
"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."
"The automation and provisioning of the environment, as well as the centralized monitoring, have all improved over the years."
"Provides high-speed network, strong storage features (ZFS), High Availability out of the box, and is Integrated with a large number of products."
"Scalablility: When we need to upgrade from an eighth-rack to a full-rack, the real downtime is less then an hour."
"The main benefit of using the solution is for the performance it provides."
"I like the scalability and the fact that it reduces your total cost for storage over several years."
"The most important thing is the simplicity of the product. It is a well-established product with good stability."
"You get the benefit of local storage, but you have the protection of shared storage."
"Technical support is very helpful and very good at resolving issues."
"The solutions best feature is that it is easy to use."
"The simplicity, as well as the integration with virtualization."
"It scales well. We have plenty of room to grow."
"The most valuable features are the encryption, deduplication, compression, and the ability to manage all of your storage within your server rack."
"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."
"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."
"VMware vSAN could improve by having faster reload time and a single point of failure. Resynchronization of many hardware could be better. If you have an outage of a disc or a full system, the replication time is too slow. This has room for improvement."
"The biggest room for improvement I see in vSAN is the lack of SAN connectivity. I've kind of joked around that there is no "SAN" in vSAN. And it's something that we've worked to try and introduce some options for, and we're going to continue to work towards that."
"I would like for the next release to be a bit cheaper."
"The interface is a little complicated, it could be simplified with more graphical gadgets. We have many servers, and the built-in functions, such as rate configuration, are a bit complex."
"We want see a better monitoring tool in vSAN. Monitoring is not that great as of now because it shows us false alarms in the Health status. We would like that to be improved."
"On the DevOps side, if there could be more automation it would be more helpful."
"If the support could be provided more quickly, it would be very helpful."
"We often run out of space but we have enough capacity for memory and CPU. It's difficult to find the balance between storage and memory CPU."
Earn 20 points
Oracle Exalogic [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Converged Infrastructure while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 226 reviews. Oracle Exalogic [EOL] is rated 7.2, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Oracle Exalogic [EOL] writes "Enables you to control middleware licenses and apps. EMOC needs more attention and simplification". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Oracle Exalogic [EOL] is most compared with , whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell PowerFlex.
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