Dell VxRail vs. Oracle VM

As Dell EMC VxRail comes as pre-built, the deployment process is simple and easy. It is possible to scale out easily and will get support from the vendor instantly. As it is a Hyperconverged Infrastructure and it is also the integration of Dell EMC hardware and Vmware, the flexibility that VxRail provides is effective. An organization that is looking for all in one place like data management, network management, Integration, and backup software ecosystem can go for this product.

Incentivized

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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• VxRail gives us a standard, predictable, unit of scale and purchase.
• Infrastructure maintenance and upgrades are much easier than on a traditional infrastructure stack.
• Performance tuning is much easier and more straightforward than on a traditional infrastructure stack

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• 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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• The software release cycle is slow compared to general release of software. Particularly with VMware based releases.

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• 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.

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All of these solutions scored very close together in our testing. Nutanix actually was the highest scoring in ease-of-use, but the integration with Vmware and the pricepoint led us to choose VxRail.

Incentivized

The ease of use on the Oracle platform is greater, flexibility and compatibility also helped in the choice, in addition to the cost-benefit.

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• We were able to exponentially reduce the cost spending to buy different components.
• As it has VMWare integration, possible to work on different operating systems.
• Automation of IT operations helped the colleagues to work on different manual tasks.

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• Migrating our workload from AWS to Oracle gave us a huge benefit in cost reduction.
• We've experienced a lot of outages.

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