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

Infrastructure Manager 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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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 of the solution is the flexibility in configuration and the setup."

"It simplifies the whole stack, and allows us to worry about other IT problems and not have to struggle with stack issues, basically."

"Overall, the support from the NetApp side has been very good, and is quick to respond if there are hardware issues, etc."

"We have experienced about 28 to 30% improvement in application performance and in our industry that's actually a very significant improvement."

"The FlexPod solution increased back-end productivity and streamlined our IT admin."

"Our footprint is lower than it used to be."

"Despite our FlexPod being six to seven years old, it still works to this day."

"We’re absolutely happy with the technical support; NetApp has the best tech support, and we deal with lots of large vendors, and NetApp definitely has the best support teams."

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

"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."

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

"This is NOT a product someone wants to deploy in a business that requires reliability and accountability."

"If you are using only LINUX/Solaris and Oracle Fusion MW products, then this is a great platform."

"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."

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Cons

"Add more automation into the Cisco UCS firmware upgrade process to make it more streamlined than it is today."

"We haven't seen ROI yet."

"NetApp has some tools that you can purchase to do performance management, or you can go with another vendor and buy a product which does the same thing. It would be nice if there was more of these features with the product, not add-ons."

"Surprise me with something I haven't thought of. Maybe it's out-of-the-box and can configure itself."

"I would like to see more orchestration tools in FlexPod because we virtually end up with integrating the v-orchestration tool within FlexPod. I would like to see something like that included within FlexPod."

"From its prime competitor, seeing some sort of an architecture around cloud built into the solution would be great, whether that's UCS Director or vRealize Automation, something that's got a validated architecture that's ready to go for that solution would be useful."

"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 think that new developments in what each vendor offers that makes the overall system easier to configure and manage could be better."

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

"Technical support makes my life difficult."

"The solution is prone to disk failures. This needs to improve."

"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."

"Provisioning more than a dozen VMs can be problematic for the proxy servers to handle, and some of the jobs fail."

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

"Every deployment or configuration change in Exalogic is a surprise. It is not reliable."

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We have saved time with Snapshots, SnapMirrors, and backup and DR capabilities versus other platforms that we have looked at in the past."

"The product's pricing is high and I would rate it a nine out of ten."

"We would like everything in one piece of hardware. This way we can just sell the product like a silo by putting everything in a stack together."

"We can just swap in new equipment or hardware as we need, which has probably saved us several weeks."

"I find the licensing and pricing structure to be favorable."

"We have seen an 80 percent improvement in application performance."

"It is not going to save you money, but that is not the point. The opportunity to stay competitive in the marketplace is not a cost."

"It is cost-effective."

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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."

"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."

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Managing Consultant with 51-200 employees

Aug 30, 2015

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

20%

Marketing Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

Marketing Services Firm

19%

Construction Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Comms Service Provider

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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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

Oracle

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University of Sao Paulo, WD-40, The Commonwell Mutual Insurance Group

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

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