We performed a comparison between FlexPod XCS and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance 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 flexibility and data deduplication have been the biggest practical applications."
"For our DR, we rely heavily on SnapMirror technologies to accomplish our disaster recovery in VMware SRM."
"From the integration standpoint, it is a lot easier to integrate than a lot of people initially felt. Being able to leverage either block or file capabilities of the storage is something that has been beneficial."
"The validated design is really important for us because it gives us a model on which to base our architecture and continued support for all firmware upgrades. It also provides consistency throughout the environment."
"The product is robust, stable, and has flexibility."
"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."
"I see the most value in the UCS portion. I love Cisco UCS."
"Going from the old monolithic server and silo storage that they used to use is an improvement. With the FlexPod solution, just being able to manage and monitor the overall environment helps."
"It is scalable as the box can be increased by one compute node, if required."
"It has helped us to reduce Oracle licensing costs for database and applications."
"Supports connection to most of network topology, such as VLAN and network segmentation."
"You will find the high availability and License Team with Oracle very valuable."
"The most valuable features include distinct storage within the Oracle PCA."
"Our environment does not always require this solution, so we are not reaping the optimal ROI."
"Possibly the UCS could get a bit better. Other than that, overall I don't necessarily have any sorts of constraints or issues with it. It's done the job that it's been bought to do."
"We would like to see the automation improved because there has been a learning curve having to create the workflows."
"We don't see the much DR capability within the FlexPod so for that, we have to maintain our own DR capability with DSRM."
"The graphical interface could be made easier to use and more intuitive."
"With the UCS X-Series, I would like to see the fabric interconnects in the chassis. Instead of hanging out so the chassis is 7U, you are increasing your footprint to 9U with the fabric enhancer, where some of the competing solutions are 7U and have collapsed that network fabric into the chassis. This is another thing that I would like to see from Cisco, though not really on the NetApp side since that is pretty solid."
"We would like more security features."
"The initial setup was complex. UCS is not the easiest thing to configure from the ground up. The networking pieces can get confusing, especially when you are talking about virtual segmentation. It is not as easy as other things now on the market, such as hyperconverged."
"In comparison to competitors like VMware, there's a perceived need for Oracle to enhance OVM, making it more flexible and user-friendly."
"Patching processing takes a long time. Only one compute node is patched at a time."
"The initial setup was very complex."
"OVM Manager Interface is using HTML5. It should be reconverted to be a Java interface."
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FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews while Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is ranked 5th in Converged Infrastructure with 5 reviews. FlexPod XCS is rated 8.6, while Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of FlexPod XCS writes "Integrates everything so you are using fewer tools". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Private Cloud Appliance writes "A highly efficient choice for deploying scalable and reliable middleware applications". FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, Oracle Exadata, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail and Dell VxBlock System, whereas Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is most compared with Oracle SuperCluster, Rackspace OpenStack, HPE ConvergedSystem, Dell VxBlock System and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform CI Series.
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