Senior Manager IT Operations at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 18, 2022
Because SuperCluster is a specially engineered system, we have confidence in that all the components are compatible with one another. Everything runs together as a well-coupled group of machines, and the performance is great (especially the memory).
Technical Team Lead - UNIX - Data Centre Operations. at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Apr 22, 2018
Because it's classified as an engineered system, it's all integrated, it's all supported by one vendor. We don't have to go to multiple vendors for support, it's all integrated under Oracle.
Consultant at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 25, 2022
SuperCluster is basically a combination of Oracle, with Exadata and Compute node features, so it is a computing cluster that is integrated in a single infrastructure such that we don't need a separate solution for the application database, the data storage database, and everything else the application needs.
Senior Manager IT Operations at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jul 2, 2024
It is easy to integrate Supercluster into IT workflow. It has a forty-gigabit InfiniBand switch. It also includes Exadata and a very powerful M-series machine. These are not mainframe processors but provide excellent internal communication and scalability.
Associate Architect - Oracle Database at Virtusa Global
Jan 12, 2024
In this setup, the traffic is distributed among the nodes, enhancing the overall performance compared to a scenario where all traffic is directed to a single server.
Senior Manager IT Operations at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 18, 2022
Speaking from a business perspective, our main problem is that our particular edition of SuperCluster is now at end-of-life status, making it obsolete and impossible to get support for. This presents a challenge for us, as finding a path to our next solution is not easy.
Technical Team Lead - UNIX - Data Centre Operations. at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Apr 22, 2018
If it had capabilities to integrate really well with DB2 or SQL Server or Hitachi SANs, those sort of things, that would be a real benefit. Right now, it's fully supported only under all Oracle infrastructure.
Consultant at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 25, 2022
A major issue for us is that after the most recent update of SuperCluster, they have now stopped all future production of new versions. That is to say, after M7 there was M8, and now there are no future versions planned (e.g. M9) in the market.
They may have made some improvements but based on the version that I am using, it is a little complicated because it is based on the Unix Operating system.
3D Database Solutions Lead at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees
Apr 25, 2018
There are many areas for improvement. For example, better guidance in terms of troubleshooting issues relating to ZFS, as well as better tools/diagnostics for monitoring that specific component, to better identify potential issues. Hardware monitoring via OEM 13.2 is not 100 percent, as Ops Center is still required in some instances.
