Dell PowerFlex vs. Oracle VM

Dell PowerFlex

3 Reviews and Ratings

Oracle VM

23 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Dell PowerFlex	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	Dell 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 VM	Score 7.9 out of 10	N/A	Oracle's server virtualization products support x86 and SPARC architectures and a variety of workloads such as Linux, Windows and Oracle Solaris. In addition to solutions that are hypervisor-based, Oracle also offers virtualization built in to hardware and Oracle operating systems to deliver the most complete and optimized solution for the entire computing environment.	N/A

Pricing

Dell PowerFlex

Oracle VM

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Dell PowerFlex	Oracle VM
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Dell PowerFlex	Oracle VM
Top Pros	Pro Pane of glass Pro Get expensive Pro Smooth and easy	Pro Operating systems Pro Virtual machines Pro Easy use
Top Cons	Minus Software upgrades Minus Hit or miss Minus Costs are high	Minus Tagging feature Minus Free tier Minus Not intuitive

Features

Dell PowerFlex

Oracle VM

Server Virtualization

Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Product A and Product B
	Dell PowerFlex - Ratings	Oracle VM 7.2 6 Ratings 15% below category average
Virtual machine automated provisioning	00 Ratings	5.76 Ratings
Management console	00 Ratings	7.56 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup	00 Ratings	5.65 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration	00 Ratings	8.84 Ratings
Hypervisor-level security	00 Ratings	8.44 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Dell PowerFlex	Oracle VM
Small Businesses	StarWind HCA Score 9.6 out of 10	Proxmox VE Score 9.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	StarWind HCA Score 9.6 out of 10	VMware vSOM (discontinued) Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises	Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure Score 9.0 out of 10	VMware vSOM (discontinued) Score 10.0 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Dell PowerFlex	Oracle VM
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (2 ratings)	7.8 (6 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Dell PowerFlex	Oracle VM
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! Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Oracle Not as flexible as VMware. Could have slightly better templates for provisioning database nodes. In terms of performance it lags a bit behind Red Hat's KVM solution. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Dell Technologies No answers on this topic	Oracle The ease of use on the Oracle platform is greater, flexibility and compatibility also helped in the choice, in addition to the cost-benefit. Incentivized Gledson Rodrigues Analista de Rede 2 Read full review
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! Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Oracle Migrating our workload from AWS to Oracle gave us a huge benefit in cost reduction. We've experienced a lot of outages. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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