Oracle Exalogic [EOL] Other Advice

MA
System Admin at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

The best thing from my point of view for Exalogic is that it enables you to control Oracle middleware licenses and apps, which are very expensive. It supports a trusted partition policy for licenses, so Exalogic is helping to reduce Oracle MW and apps licenses, as you are licensed only per the physical cores assigned to the VM server only and you can increase the licenses by increments of 2, 4, 6, etc. physical cores. You can not find this feature outside Oracle HW such as Exadata, Exalogic, PCA, etc. For normal physical HW, you have to pay for all cores in the physical sever, even though you might have a small load. For VMware, it will be a big problem and a licensing nightmare, as you have to pay for all of the VMware CPU cores in the cluster, even though you might only be using 4 cores!!!!! It is an unfair policy.

Exalogic is not easy for administration.

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Robin Saikat Chatterjee - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Solutioning Technology and Architeture at Tata Consultancy Services

As mentioned, this is the best platform for WebLogic. I strongly recommend coupling this with Exadata, as there are multiplied benefits with this approach. The solution is not for everyone, though smaller companies can go for an IaaS op-ex model now, but the real target audience is organizations who want the best possible performance from the Oracle stack.

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Leo La Ciura - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT Consultant at Intesa Sanpaolo

It can be a good choice if you like to avoid labour in setting up the storage, network and computing. After this, you need to be prepared to rely on your team or the vendor support team because you’re going to face small but frequent issues.


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it_user392826 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Oracle DWH/BI/ODI/Linux/Exadata Consultant Exa Techstack at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

It is a great solution for an application server.


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TM
Senior Middleware Consultant at africvo group

I'm an Oracle partner. We use the on-premises deployment model.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

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it_user349278 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dy. System Manager at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

Certainly buy Platinum support as you will need Oracle's help every now and then.

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it_user528921 - PeerSpot reviewer
Database Administrator at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

Well, first check if your requirements are aligned with the solution. For example, if your solution will need to connect or consume external resources (webservices, B2B, SAP, etc.) that are not in the same cloud. If this is the case, then it probably is not a good idea to choose this solution.

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it_user504225 - PeerSpot reviewer
Development and Line Manager System Integration at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The product is good but complex, and requires extensive internal knowledge to build it up and support.

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it_user419700 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Fusion Middleware Technical Consultant at a tech services company

I rate this product eight out of 10. After years of stabilization (a lot of known bugs and issues with compute nodes rebooting due to InfiniBand HCAs and driver bugs, etc.) the product has achieved stability as a private cloud appliance.

Make sure you align the application and integration architecture with the sizing and the product's distribution. As its virtual datacenter is oriented to the network structure, once the VMs are created with an initial network configuration, it is not possible to change, despite destroying and recreating the VMs. This is acceptable in some cases, as long as the remaining automation process can reset the VMs.

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it_user457482 - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Leader at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

As best practice, before starting the installation you should have a look at the Oracle Documentation. Oracle provides a "Getting Started Guide" to get up-to-date checklists to verify requirements (for example IP addresses, name syntax, etc.) and to be sure your infrastructure is ready for the installation. Also, we recommend to install Oracle Enterprise Manager as a monitoring solution: it is fully integrated with Oracle Exadata and Oracle Exalogic, you can monitor hardware (compute nodes, switches, ILKOM etc.) and software (operating system, Database, WebLogic, business applications etc.).

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it_user40242 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Enterprise Architect at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

Exalogic is an environment built for performance for Oracle middleware and application workloads. If you are looking for the best performance for such environments, at the expense of some ease of administration, then this environment is for you.

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it_user429384 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Rating: I'd give Exalogic probably a 7.5. The reason is, the issues with the Emoc system and that integration, that user interface is very different. Also, some of the limitations on the Exalogic. You have to use Oracle's OS load, you can't run Windows. There's some limitations to how it works that causes some confusion. That's why I'd rate it a little lower.

My recommendation for peers if you're looking for a need to reduce the latency for your workload, definitely take a look at it. It's definitely going to be the fastest thing out there to solve that issue for your connectivity to the Exadata when you're running a WebLogic based application. You need to take a look at it for that reason alone. Be prepared for some of the limitations and make sure your application works within those limitations.

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it_user533091 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Engineered Systems Consultant at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

If you are using only LINUX/Solaris and Oracle Fusion MW products, then this is a great platform.

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it_user464589 - PeerSpot reviewer
President at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I would suggest that you do not underestimate the work involved and if working with OCS closely manage the deliverables and hours.

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it_user502803 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Technology Anayst at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I’d go for this product only if I have a really specific application to run, and it has proven better use with this product. Otherwise, I’d look for anything else.

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it_user639903 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a government

Before implementing make sure you have network planning confirmation and existing network services, such as DNS and NTP server.

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MK
AGM at Tech Valley Networks Limited

We're an Oracle partner.

Typically we implement this solution on a large scale to enterprise-level clients. Typical customers might be big banks in Bangladesh.

I'd recommend the solution, but there are other options that give a client more flexibility. 

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

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it_user531591 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Administrator & Sistemista at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

My advice is to evaluate other solutions!!!

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it_user531807 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Systems Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is good for Oracle in an Oracle environment.

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it_user480237 - PeerSpot reviewer
Group Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We needed to migrate by hand all of the MSS SCSI servers and all the database servers. Unfortunately, Oracle and GoldenGate don't support all the systems, so we decided to migrate by hand.

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