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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Dell PowerFlex

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ADell PowerFlex (formerly VxFlex) software-defined storage solutions aim to enable transformational agility for organizations looking to modernize their datacenter operations. The vendor states PowerFlex enables extreme flexibility, massive scalability, and enterprise-class performance and resiliency while simplifying infrastructure management and operations.N/A

    Oracle Virtualization

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AOracle Virtualization is an enterprise-grade server virtualization solution that provides KVM virtualization and management capabilities and built-in disaster recovery features with no license cost.N/A
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    Dell PowerFlexOracle Virtualization
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    Pricing Offerings
    Dell PowerFlexOracle Virtualization
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Dell PowerFlexOracle Virtualization
    Server Virtualization
    Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Dell PowerFlex and Oracle Virtualization
    Feature
    Dell PowerFlex
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle Virtualization
    7.2
    5 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Virtual machine automated provisioning00 Ratings5.75 Ratings
    Management console00 Ratings7.55 Ratings
    Live virtual machine backup00 Ratings5.54 Ratings
    Live virtual machine migration00 Ratings8.83 Ratings
    Hypervisor-level security00 Ratings8.44 Ratings
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    Dell PowerFlexOracle Virtualization
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    Score9.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score8.6 out of 10
    VMware vSOM (discontinued)
    Score10 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
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    IBM PowerVM
    Score9.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Dell PowerFlexOracle Virtualization
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.8
    (5 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Dell PowerFlexOracle Virtualization
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Dell Technologies
    Definitely would recommend this unit or this family of units into most peoples organizations. Especially if you're starting fresh with a whole dedicated SAN and dont have to move a ton of data over to these (though that is possible, it is very messy). If you're moving from existing storage, then you will have to be prepared for some sore spots!
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    Oracle
    Well suited: development work as they provide a very nice free tier, datacenters in Latin America with very low ping, heavy loads for DB if you use Oracle DB Less appropriate: fast webservers as they use hard disks for several tiers, fast MySQL databases as the server is shared, auto-scaling functionality is not present.
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    Pros
    Dell Technologies
    • Gets all your (SAN) ducks in a row, and makes it easy with a single pane of glass
    • The usual good dell support if you're paying for the right support level
    • It can get expensive with options added but base price is pretty competitive
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    Oracle
    • Installation and setup of VM Server are pretty straight forward.
    • Many different guest operating systems are supported.
    • There can be up to 128 virtual machines per physical server.
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    Cons
    Dell Technologies
    • Costs are high, especially when having to replace multiple old SAN's with the one type
    • There is alot of down time when you have to push updates out to the units
    • Not sure we still have the full hang of all the functions as there's some pretty deep functions that are not explained well
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    Oracle
    • Platform designer
    • Support material
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    Alternatives Considered
    Dell Technologies
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    Oracle
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    Return on Investment
    Dell Technologies
    • Money saved in having a bunch of other competing storage units
    • All kinds of time saved for our admins that have to deal with storage
    • The units look good and give you that futurey data center vibe!
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    Oracle
    • Saved us licenses fees while we upgrade to a virtual environment and redundancies servers
    • Forced me to manage another hard to manage virtual environment
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