Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center is Oracle's comprehensive solution for managing the physical and virtual assets in your data center: operating systems, firmware, BIOS configurations, bare metal server and virtual guest provisioning, hardware monitoring, automatic My Oracle Support service request generation, and performance and energy management.
Traditionally, IT departments have been required to install and configure software that is hosted on hardware that was itself installed and configured separately. Oracle Engineered Systems relieve this burden from the IT department by providing a pre-defined combination of hardware and software. Oracle Engineered Systems is a complete set of integrated hardware and software that is designed to reach a predetermined level of capability, capacity, and scale. This relatively new concept of an integrated hardware and software solution, dedicated to provide a specific service, changes the way one must think about architecture in IT environments.
In addition to removing the burden of installation and configuration, Oracle Engineered Systems provide significant cost savings, this is one of the many advantages delivered by Oracle Engineered Systems. An even larger advantage is the optimization that pre-defined hardware and software enables. As the hardware and software are engineered together to form a complete system, there are multiple opportunities to improve the overall system performance. The unified and integrated monitoring and management of the Oracle Engineered Systems also provide cost savings through simplification of the overall environment. Thus, Oracle Engineered Systems allow datacenter services to be delivered more efficiently through modular or dedicated systems. This greatly simplifies the entire purchase, deploy, configure, monitor, and manage life cycle of the provided services.
The whole impetus for cloud computing is to provide specific services such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), or Software as a Service (SaaS) as efficiently as possible; therefore, the increased efficiency delivered by Oracle Engineered Systems make them ideal candidates for the building blocks of a cloud computing environment.
In addition to creating a cloud computing environment, the building blocks address a variety of enterprise architecture requirements to provide a path for enterprise maturation alongside the move to cloud adoption. Each building block is selected as needed to meet specific maturation needs, and thus, ultimately it provides an increase in overall architectural flexibility. For example, an architect may choose to integrate an Exadata Storage Server and Oracle SuperCluster or Oracle VM Blade Cluster early on to begin the process of consolidation into a scalable architecture, and then expand the system later to meet future demand. Shifting the overall environment into a standardized architecture opens possibilities for future shift into cloud adoption or continuation down the traditional enterprise computing maturation continuum while providing for future scale.
The following are the different Oracle Engineered Systems that are supported by Enterprise Manager Ops Center.
Oracle SuperCluster M7
Oracle SuperCluster M6-32
Oracle SuperCluster T5-8
Oracle SPARC SuperCluster T4-4
Oracle SuperCluster M7 delivers an integrated hardware and software stack, with compute, storage, and network all engineered to work optimally together to provide a consolidated platform for running database, middleware, and applications from both Oracle and third parties. Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center is closely integrated with Oracle SuperCluster M7 and provides hardware monitoring and virtualization management.
Oracle SuperCluster M6-32 is a complete engineered system that is designed to run databases and applications on a single system. Ideal for consolidation and private cloud, Oracle SuperCluster M6-32 can run database, middleware, custom and third party applications. Oracle SuperCluster M6-32 is ideal for large scale database and application consolidation and also private cloud. You can run a variety of workloads including OLTP and data warehousing, complex applications, and mixed workloads for extreme performance. With big memory, Oracle SuperCluster M6-32 can run databases and applications in memory while providing the highest levels of availability and serviceability. Oracle SuperCluster M6-32 can scale vertically, allowing customers to flexibly add compute and storage resources to meet their demanding datacenter requirements.
Oracle SuperCluster T5-8 includes a complete stack of hardware and software, computing, storage, and network, all engineered to work optimally together to provide a consolidated platform for running database, middleware, or third party applications. Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center is closely integrated with Oracle SuperCluster T5-8 and provides hardware management, provisioning, and virtualization management.
Oracle SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 includes a complete stack of hardware and software, computing, storage, and network, all engineered to work optimally together to provide a consolidated platform for running database, middleware, or third party applications. Enterprise Manager Ops Center is closely integrated with SPARC SuperCluster and provides hardware management, provisioning, and virtualization management.