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."What I like best about Oracle Exadata is its good performance. It's also a very fast solution."
"The business intelligence is very good."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is the storage available."
"The storage capacity and the performance of Oracle Exadata are good. When comparing the performance to other technologies it is very good. I am satisfied with the management of the solution."
"Oracle Exadata's performance is one of its best features. We very satisfied with it."
"We can use virtualization on Exadata."
"Exadata is also a very stable environment. Their Smart Scan feature is great for every banking environment and financial institutions willing to implement it."
"Parallelism is the most valuable feature."
"It improved from an operations standpoint as we have reduced failures compared to a previous vendor. The hardware that we previously used had a lot of issues with components failing regularly."
"VxRail has high performance and has great efficiency. There is a single place for us to manage all of our virtual machines. The ability to right-size instead of overcommit VMs is a large benefit."
"Homogeneity is most valuable. The truth is that having everything in a single cluster helps a lot."
"VxRail is a simple, efficient solution. It's easy to upgrade and scale the solution. If we increase our user base, we can easily scale it out. We have several thousand using it now."
"We were able to speed up our gaming software, which was a big plus."
"It makes for easier deployments through automation and improved accessibility."
"VxRail has improved our organization by providing our admin team with an easy-to-use interface."
"For me, VxRail's most valuable feature is its life-cycle management."
"I have found Oracle Exadata to be scalable. However, you have to purchase more hardware, such as memory."
"We have a little trepidation with the system as it does have a learning curve. Also changing to a binary logging format for us feels like retrograde motion, but sadly almost all Linux variants have moved in this direction."
"Oracle Exadata has room for improvement in pricing, especially for smaller companies. The solution is okay for bigger companies, but for smaller companies, it isn't."
"There's room for improvement in terms of deployment, as it could be made faster and more user-friendly."
"The customization can sometimes be difficult to achieve."
"Patching must be simplified."
"I believe Oracle must improve its procedure to support the clients. The customer Ready Service must provide more use cases and benchmarks of their infrastructure to support client design decisions. Oracle must audit their partners regularly to guarantee they provide quality service even after been passed on partnership examination."
"Certification should also be improved. Today, Oracle doesn't certify applications with engineered systems."
"Troubleshooting can be a little more difficult than legacy systems."
"The product has high pricing. This particular area needs improvement."
"There could be better documentation and they should allow everyone to access the simulator."
"When it comes to maintenance, it takes 16 hours to upgrade a 12 node VxRail plus. This could be improved in the system."
"If VxRail could also offer file services in addition to virtualization, that would be nice because sometimes people want to complement their environment with file services, and you don't have that in VxRail."
"The only issue which is every now and again is that when you log in it will tell you that there's an issue with VxRail when there actually isn't. All that's required is a refresh or reload. The solution itself works but you may get some bad reports every now and again. Probably once every couple of months; there is no effect to the solution's capabilities."
"They should have better compatibility with other processors, such as AMD processors."
"What I find very valuable is VxRail's life cycle management. The life cycle management takes care of everything from firmware to the actual upgrading of the hypervisor and keeps everything up to level."
Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 124 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 115 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 Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series.
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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.