We performed a comparison between FlexPod XCS and Oracle Exadata based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and others in Converged Infrastructure."The most valuable is the one support. I have a 1-800 number. I call one number rather than figuring out whether it's a network, compute, or storage issue. It is beautiful and works out nicely."
"Because we use it everywhere, it is standard to set up. Therefore, if you can manage the set up in one place, then you can manage the whole infrastructure."
"We have had great support, and this is when we have called for any problems, which have been very minimal to start with."
"I can leverage its multiple storage abilities. We have various kinds of storage in our environment, like IBM or NetApp. We can mix those types of storage with the FlexPod environment."
"FlexPod has improved our company as far as ease of management, stability, and redundancy."
"Things got a lot faster. We can pull and test in DEV systems much more rapidly and are clearing up a lot of DBA time. In the past, every time we tested it, we needed to be refreshed. In the past, it would take a day of our DBA's time, and now it's just point, click, and ten minutes later it's done."
"The system is designed for easy scaling. Because we define everything clearly. So when we plug the system in, we apply the profile, and it scales easily."
"The ease of expansion is the most valuable feature."
"Exadata with the In-Memory option is several levels about SAP HANA."
"We can use virtualization on Exadata."
"Complete management occurs from one single address instead of different servers."
"Parallelism is the most valuable feature."
"This product can noticeably enhance performance of contextual Oracle databases."
"Exadata is a fantastic machine. Two features stand out. The first is the resource input/output management tool that allows you to manage the resources to the neck on the Exadata box."
"The performance on the databases is good."
"On-premises Exadata is just as stable as the cloud version. It's a very stable platform."
"Newer platform reference architectures take a long time to harden and be publicly available."
"This solution is very hard to maintain and keep up."
"We have had a bit of struggle on the support side. From a customer perspective, it has been up to us to make sure that we get both NetApp and Cisco involved when we have had an issue."
"Our environment does not always require this solution, so we are not reaping the optimal ROI."
"There are too many drivers and software combined all together, and we need to have compatibility between all of them."
"The interface is a little convoluted."
"Sometimes, it can take awhile for support cases to get to the right people, especially if it's not a P1 case."
"I think they can always improve, whether it's dedupe or compression, those algorithms; and flash through better SSDs."
"The scalability can be improved as it is not a parallel execution."
"The handling of temp space has room for improvement."
"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."
"The initial setup process is very difficult and extremely complex."
"There is one aspect to Exadata that I dislike, and that's the inconsistency with other databases. When you try to get Exadata to function with another type of database like SQL, or others, there should be reliable and consistent operation. When this is improved on, we should start to see more applications growing the market."
"I have found Oracle Exadata to be scalable. However, you have to purchase more hardware, such as memory."
"Exadata would be improved with single dashboard visibility."
"License or upgrade management can be difficult and time consuming because it requires login to a separate console."
FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews while Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 124 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 Teradata Cloud Data Warehouse.
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