We performed a comparison between FlexPod XCS and Oracle Exadata based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"When our clients choose to call NetApp or Cisco directly, the cooperative support model means they can get passed back and forth between the two organizations freely. It works really well."
"The solution can be innovative when it comes to compute storage and networking. FlexPod is very flexible and innovative. We can design it as we like."
"ONTAP is the core of FlexPod, so its most valuable features are: FlexClone, Snapshot, and SnapCenter."
"FlexClone allows you to create copies of volumes in seconds, and without occupying physical space."
"The assurance and the peace of mind that we get from knowing if we had an issue with either the NetApp equipment, Cisco equipment, or our VMware enviroment, we can call one number for support, then everyone works together and nobody is pointing fingers all over the place."
"With FlexPod, it is about the synergy of the server, the storage, and the whole management layer. Together, it is really about minimizing staff. You don't have to hire more people. You can work with the minimum level of resources and the availability is really good. We have had very little downtime."
"The solution’s unified support for the entire stack is critically important because we cannot afford downtime."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is the integration with other solutions, such as SAN storage and shared VLAN network."
"It offers a significant advantage for accommodating a large number of users."
"The performance of the data is the most important part."
"Backup/Restore performance: Fast backups, fast restores (especially useful for creating clone environments)."
"This product can noticeably enhance performance of contextual Oracle databases."
"Exadata is also a very stable environment. Their Smart Scan feature is great for every banking environment and financial institutions willing to implement it."
"The most valuable feature is storage offloading."
"Before using this machine, we took no less than two days to run a report. Now, we can do it within five hours. So, there is a lot of improvement."
"Not a ten because it could always be cheaper, it could always be faster."
"They need to improve the user interface to make it easier to work in this environment. The older version is poor."
"Perhaps the automation interface could be improved."
"In the SolidFire interface, if you use the GUI, you have to create one run at a time, or one device at a time, which is something that needs to be fixed."
"The graphical interface could be made easier to use and more intuitive."
"We want always more speed, capacity, fluidity, and growth that we can easily integrate."
"Because when you try to do automation, there are many bits and pieces tied together. Sometimes, automation gets a little tricky for provisioning."
"This solution is very hard to maintain and keep up."
"The cost of the solution is high and can be improved."
"Setting up Exadata is complex. You need an Oracle vendor or someone who is Oracle-certified to set it up."
"We need a monitoring tool which can in one place, where we can manage, monitor the entire Exadata components."
"In a future release, I would like to see some upgrade analysis advisors to help with a clear roadmap on steps that need to be taken and some of the automated processes."
"I would like to see more database features and maybe more archiving features, because we need to do data archiving."
"It is difficult to evaluate return-on-investment because of the way billing is handled for the product. This should be improved by oracle."
"One small area for improvement in Oracle Exadata is integration, particularly at the consolidated application level."
"It would be nice to have a single click button to, say, migrate my VMware VM into the Oracle VM, or vice-versa."
FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews while Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 125 reviews. FlexPod XCS is rated 8.6, while Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of FlexPod XCS writes "Integrates everything so you are using fewer tools". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Offers a variety of valuable features". FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, Dell VxBlock System and Dell PowerEdge VRTX, whereas Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake and Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse.
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