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

Ranking in other categories

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Featured Reviews

John Kevin

Data Scientist Assistant 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

"It's all converged into one consolidated platform, which works well together."

"Go for it. Just buy it. It's simple and out-of-the-box."

"The tool provides a single point for storing applications and it increases the availability of them. It also has improved the way we handle applications within VMware."

"Because of this solution, we now don't have very many problems."

"The solution is trustworthy, and it has proven itself too."

"NetApp is always coming up with features that I want before I know that I want them."

"It is a very nice solution because, traditionally, we used to spend more time administrating and managing, but now we put it in a self-service mode for the developer community."

"It is a very well-thought-out solution with great virtualization. A good option we have is mapping a storage LUN onto an ESX cluster. That way, in case a particular ESX is down, it can migrate (using vMotion) to another host in the cluster, resulting in high-availability."

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"On comparison with other solutions, VM for example, we saw a 70% performance improvement."

"When combined with other engineered systems such as Exadata, we have seen from 20% to 60% better performance overall with certain operations showing much, much improved execution times."

"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."

"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)."

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

"The automation and provisioning of the environment, as well as the centralized monitoring, have all improved over the years."

"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."

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Cons

"As a point solution, it does absolutely what it should. I'm not sure it needs any more. Make it cheaper."

"On the UCS side, sometimes it is difficult to set up."

"The technical support is slightly above average. I would like them to have quicker escalation"

"We would like something like a FlexPod Express; we want a smaller version for small offices."

"I would like to see easier day-zero setup. We're having to get other tools to try and set up everything."

"There are apparently some new products coming around the whole FlexPod side of things with regards to auditing, to ensure everything is configured correctly. It's basically a "delta" if there have been any changes. It's important to us, from a support perspective, to know if there have been changes and what impact they have actually had."

"There was a little mixup with, at least NetApp, coming to the market with flash. They've slowly gained ground in that marketplace; I’m waiting to see how that plays out."

"I would like to see drag and drop connectivity to Azure and Amazon."

More FlexPod XCS cons

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

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

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

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

"I can't think of a single significant issue with performance or stability that was solved in less than nine months, and it is honestly the worst product I have ever dealt with."

"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."

"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."

"Technical support makes my life difficult."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We immediately saw a return on investment due to the fact that replacing our legacy storage arrays with the new AFFs reduced the footprint and maintenance costs. Overall, we saw an almost immediate ROI."

"The footprint in the data center is quite large, especially when you scale out. Maybe find some hardware in the future, where if a new blade comes out, then Cisco can say, "Look, we'll buy those blades back off you, and we'll give you this blade for X amount of money." A buyback scheme would be good for hardware, and even NetApp as well. Something like a buyback scheme for blades and stuff moving forward would be good, because I know that they're going to put more power into them. E.g., replacing four blades might equal one blade, which would be awesome, but we are still going to have those four blades around. Maybe having something where it will give you this much money for these blades so we can upgrade. That would be perfect."

"We pay approximately $1,400 USD in total for between five-thousand and ten-thousand ports."

"It has saved us hundreds of man-hours by using this converged infrastructure."

"The main return on investment would be that instead of having to refresh all of our desktop hardware we have been able to go reimage existing machines and use those as thin clients, then also purchase new thin clients rather than buying actual hardware. It also reduces the overhead of having our technicians deploy those systems and maintain them."

"We fear high availability so we can't buy from different providers."

"We have absolutely seen ROI. We have saved between two to four million dollars on travel alone over the past 24 months."

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

More FlexPod XCS 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."

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

"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."

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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

18%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Outsourcing Company

11%

Construction Company

10%

Construction Company

20%

Outsourcing Company

15%

Marketing Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	35
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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