We performed a comparison between Oracle Exadata and VxRail based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Snowflake Computing, Oracle, Teradata and others in Data Warehouse."The most valuable feature is the time to solution."
"The data replication is very good."
"Oracle has reliable solutions and this one is no different."
"It is the best solution for OLTP and data warehousing."
"The product is flexible."
"We have used this solution for a long period of time so it has become easy for us to query any kind of data from Oracle Exadata which has been valuable."
"The performance of the data is the most important part."
"What I like most about Oracle Exadata is its smart scan feature. I also like that it supports higher capacities and it's high-performing, so my company can use Oracle Exadata for massive databases."
"Management of the hardware and software in one console is the most valuable feature. It's also compatible with vSAN."
"VxRail can manage the whole cluster at the same time, so it's easy to expand. VxRail has more features vSAN ReadyNodes that make it easier to implement from scratch."
"This solution optimizes our clients' resources."
"VxRail is an agile solution with easily scalable, simplify operations with software driven automation and lower operational cost."
"The solution is easy to use. When turning on a server or a machine that is required for, deployment or quality assurance, the dynamic deployment of resources is good."
"VxRail has improved out organization because we are trying to be a little more proactive and elastic. We are trying to change our conventional approach to development."
"The manageability for controlling the console is the most valuable feature."
"My customers use it for VDI. It has been very usable and very fast to use with VDI. On the VxRail side also, it has been very fast."
"There is a feature for security, but it is not included in the first purchase of this solution. That means if you need to increase the security, you need to buy the security feature which doesn't come by default on these solutions."
"The improvement could be made on the hardware level as the habit in the industry is to go better and faster and larger with every iteration."
"It is difficult to evaluate return-on-investment because of the way billing is handled for the product. This should be improved by oracle."
"It's too expensive per terabyte. It's complex."
"The setup is a little bit complex. We would like to see the installation part get easier."
"One small area for improvement in Oracle Exadata is integration, particularly at the consolidated application level."
"We need a monitoring tool which can in one place, where we can manage, monitor the entire Exadata components."
"The cost of the solution is high and can be improved."
"The UI could be a little more informative."
"The version upgrade process should be simplified."
"The cost is quite high. It's a very expensive solution to run."
"The full solution is not completely included as a bundle, such as we see with SimpliVity."
"The licensing needs to be improved upon."
"In the version that I was working with, the integrations are in need of improvement."
"Right now, it's difficult for a non-technical person to participate in using the product. It could be made more consumer-friendly."
"The product has high pricing. This particular area needs improvement."
Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 125 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 120 reviews. Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Offers a variety of valuable features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake and Amazon Redshift, whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and HPE Hyper Converged.
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Although the VxRail is considered as the #1 HCI solution for its reliability & performance, yet unfortunate when it comes to an Oracle solution ... it won't be considered as the best infrastructure choice ... and it's not due to the performance or the architecture, but in fact, the whole blame goes to Oracle license base (core base), as you may see ... VxRail is based on VMWare license, where Oracle condition when you are going to deploy it over VMWare, you will need to license the whole host cores (not only the assigned Virtual cores to the VM), so if you have a VxRail cluster that consists of 4 nodes for example, and each node have dual sockets 16 cores, then although you are assigning only 8 Cores for the Oracle VM, yet you will need to pay for the whole host cores (32 core) which a huge amount of money, and you will pay the double if you are going to deploy in high availability mood.
So you see, the issue is from the Oracle side not from VxRail, Alternatively ... you can deploy all of your application over the VxRail cluster, including the Oracle application, yet for the Oracle database, use a physical server with high CPU frequency and low no of cores ... for example (Intel Xeon Gold 5222 3.8G, 4Core / Intel Xeon Silver 4215R 3.2G, 8Core), and you may use a single socket server which will allow you for upgrading later on.
You may have to pay too much for the Oracle license.
You can try the HPE Synergy platform so that dedicated two physical nodes for Oracle with less core count, REST apps and other VMS run on an HCI cluster managed in the same frame.