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.
The Oracle SuperCluster M7 hardware includes one or two SPARC M7 servers, two or three Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Switch 36 switches as InfiniBand backplane, a Cisco 4948 48-port 1Gb Ethernet Switch for management connectivity, and a Sun Rack II. Oracle SuperCluster M7 is available in a flexible range of configurations, allowing compute and storage to be configured independently. The small configuration consists of a single SPARC M7 server and three Exadata Storage Servers. Up to eight additional Exadata Storage Servers can be added to configurations that feature a single compute server. A second SPARC M7 server can also be added to the small configuration, along with up to three additional Exadata Storage Servers for a total of six Exadata Storage Servers. Additional storage capacity can be added by connecting one or more Oracle Exadata Storage Expansion Racks.