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."It's a kind of one-stop shop as far as support goes."
"The most valuable features of this solution are efficiency and simplicity."
"It's amazingly scalable. It just works. It can expand to large MetroClusters and keep expanding."
"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."
"It makes us more lateral and faster to production."
"The initial setup was very straightforward. They provided a lot of documentation."
"For the management side of our UCS, it is a single pane of glass for multiple people, whether it is data center, sysadmin, or server deployment."
"One of the most valuable aspects is its integrated convergence infrastructure, particularly the LAN and SAN cloud features that offer a unified fabric."
"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."
"I'd like to see some more Ansible integration for automation purposes. We automate everything else with Ansible, so it would be great if we could automate our FlexPod with Ansible as well."
"We would like to see a new design that comes with more productivity or graphics. Currently, the vendors, like HPE and Dell EMC along with NetApp, all have very similar products. We want more diversification."
"I would think more cloud integration, a lot more flexibility with adapting to different things."
"They could improve their technical support team. They need to have a specific phone number for you to call in for the FlexPod solution. Some of the partner support knows if it is for FlexPod, they will get you to the right department."
"I would also like to feel more support. NetApp has been pretty good, for the most part, but Cisco has more work to do. I've had very good experience with NetApp. Instead of having to call three different areas and saying, "I'm a FlexPod customer." It would be nice if it could be just one that gets routed. I know it would require three large companies to work together, but that's what would make this product a ten. They could definitely use with making it more user-friendly."
"We would like them to have better features to integrate with the cloud."
"There is a history of issues with hardware availability. For example, we'll buy an array or a filer with a particular configuration and particular size of drive, sizing it appropriately. Then, as we grow, they're like, "Oh, you can always get more." Then when you go to get more, that model or type of disk is no longer available. It becomes this big process to try to figure out what we need to get, how it'll work, and how that'll integrate into the system. That could be simpler. They could do a bit more to guarantee the availability of parts. Obviously, not being the largest storage vendor, I know they can't sometimes control what the hardware vendors do. However, a bit more transparency and communication about this would be helpful."
"I think they can always improve, whether it's dedupe or compression, those algorithms; and flash through better SSDs."
"The initial setup was very complex."
"OVM Manager Interface is using HTML5. It should be reconverted to be a Java interface."
"Patching processing takes a long time. Only one compute node is patched at a time."
"In comparison to competitors like VMware, there's a perceived need for Oracle to enhance OVM, making it more flexible and user-friendly."
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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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