FlexPod XCS vs Oracle Exalogic [EOL] comparison

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FlexPod XCS

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96% willing to recommend

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75% willing to recommend

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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

Number of Reviews

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Featured Reviews

John Kevin

Infrastructure Director at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

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

Pros

"This solution has been helpful to our organization in many ways including provisioning storage, provisioning applications, and maintaining applications."

"FlexPod is absolutely uniquely valuable for oil and gas, for some of the more higher-intensive products, the software that engineers will use to look for oil."

"FlexPod’s prevalidated architectures are very important to our organization; especially in healthcare, it is absolutely critical that we have a validated performance platform and FlexPod has to work every time."

"We are using the Epic environment on-demand workflow, and that has saved us quite literally thousands of man-hours by helping us refresh, back up, and create new instances."

"It scales well. It allows us to have very flexible architecture but to have the same level of simplicity that we'd normally expect in hyper-converged environments."

"The solution can be innovative when it comes to cloud computing storage and networking."

"FlexPod is an architecture that a lot of our major customers are running with their most mission critical stuff."

"It's greatly reduced the complexity of network storage and compute."

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

"InfiniBand (internal Exalogic network) minimizes any network outages."

"Even with running in a virtualized configuration, the performance seen has been better than running on non-Exalogic physical environments."

"There are many benefits of Exalogic, but I believe the most important point is production stability."

"Oracle Engineered Systems are the best solution for Oracle and non-Oracle applications: hardware and software are combined together to ensure high availability and maximum performance."

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

"Storage, strong in data integrity."

"It's improved the delivery of virtual machines and setting them up with WebLogic (Application Server)."

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Cons

"The only support call that we have had in six years was related to an ONTAP upgrade, where one of the controllers didn't patch properly."

"The upgrades that they had to go through from 7-Mode to CDOT (Clustered Data OnTap) did not make for a good transition. You basically had to stand up a side-by-side system, copy your data over, upgrade your stuff and move your data back."

"FlexPod has saved us some time, but I must add a caveat."

"I'd like to see a little bit simpler management pane."

"The continued simplification will be a continued battle and evolution for both Cisco and NetApp, especially on the FlexPod product."

"My only concern is the limited integration with applications."

"When we initially installed it, the automation piece really wasn't available."

"I would like to see more cloud-centric modules that are specific to applications and more software-based solutions. That's all that is missing."

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"It's very expensive. Oracle Platinum Services (patching) is terrible, and we haven't had a patching exercise occur without significant problems and often impact to production operations."

"Initially, yes, there were stability issues. A number of redesigns were needed to stabilize the Hypervisor, control the stack layer, as well as the software defined network drivers (Mellanox bugs causing compute nodes to reboot)."

"Currently the management functions of Exalogic are not as smooth as one would desire."

"We have had issues with the stability as the product failed on its promise for replication of all the components."

"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."

"Technical support makes my life difficult."

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

"Technical support is an issue for Oracle, not only for Exalogic products; it needs to improve."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing and licensing are quite expensive. However, compared to other solutions, it is okay."

"It's expensive, but when you pay for enterprise support and enterprise products, you have to pay the big bucks."

"The product is kind of expensive even from an entry-level standpoint. I would say FlexPod would be the way to go if you are a larger business or one with large data volume."

"The solution has saved our customers' organization in terms of CapEx. E.g., with the cloud availability, it's turned into sort of a hybrid CapEx/OpEx model."

"Licensing can be interesting with the new version because of the Intersight integration. I don't know what that looks like yet. I have seen some of the different licensing models, but with the new purchasing, all customers are going to have to buy some sort of Intersight licensing with the Blades or FlexPod. I am curious to see how that option shakes out. Previous to the UCS X-Series, the licensing was the same."

"Pricing is always tough. We need to get to a point where the customer's happy. Then, as partners, we are also happy."

"If your company really needs to be up 100% of the time, and you need to do a private data center, I don't know if I could realistically actually recommend another blueprint."

"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."

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"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."

"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."

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Managing Consultant with 51-200 employees

Aug 30, 2015

Nutanix vs. VMware EVO:RAIL vs. FlexPod

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Outsourcing Company

13%

Construction Company

12%

Marketing Services Firm

11%

Construction Company

22%

Outsourcing Company

15%

Marketing Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	34
Midsize Enterprise	66
Large Enterprise	182

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

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Overview

FlexPod XCS offers a seamless integration with existing IT systems, enhancing both scalability and usability. It simplifies complex IT environments with unified support and a pre-validated design, making it invaluable for mission-critical applications.

FlexPod XCS effectively manages diverse IT infrastructures by providing a comprehensive end-to-end solution. Its integration capabilities allow for efficient storage and compute operations, while users value its flexibility and high reliability. The platform ensures significant time savings and operational efficiency by reducing troubleshooting and facilitating seamless expansion. Known for supporting varied environments and workloads, FlexPod XCS optimizes resource management and is compatible with prominent cloud systems like AWS and Azure, thus supporting cloud, private, and multi-cloud strategies.

What are the key features of FlexPod XCS?

Integration: Connects efficiently with existing systems for smoother operations.
Scalability: Allows seamless expansion to accommodate growing demands.
End-to-End Solution: Reduces complexity via unified support and pre-validated designs.
Flexibility: Manages both storage and compute effectively.
Cloud Compatibility: Integrates with AWS, Azure, and other cloud environments.

What benefits should users look for when evaluating FlexPod XCS?

Reliability: High dependability ensures uninterrupted operations.
Operational Efficiency: Streamlined processes lead to time savings.
Resource Optimization: Better management across IT infrastructures.
Seamless Expansion: Easily scales without excessive reconfiguration.

FlexPod XCS is widely used in industries like finance, healthcare, and education for data center virtualization and telecom operations. It enhances IT consolidation, optimizes resource utilization, and supports efficient disaster recovery solutions in diverse environments, making it a favored choice for hosting data storage and hybrid cloud infrastructure.

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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