Bjoern Rost17
#oracle supercluster has the same storage cells as #exadata (with same features) but #SPARC processors (and license hard partitioning) #datacenter
Dave Vellante
can you elaborate - what are the implications for DBAs?
Bjoern Rost
@dvellante you can pay db licenses for just the subset of cores you need, pay as you grow and use the rest of the capacity for general purpose VMs. supercluster is exadata++
Bjoern Rost
@dvellante also, if you are migrating from older sparc systems you have the choice of simply forklifting the old systems 1-to-1 or migrate them to the exadata stuff. all on the same box
Dave Vellante
have you seen flash also reduce the # of cores you need to deploy? And hence DB license and maint fees?
Bjoern Rost
@dvellante and you also get the most memory per CPU socket on the market
Bjoern Rost
@dvellante yes and no. modern cpus can drive an insane amount of work, bottleneck has typically been storage and io bandwidth. flash (and large memory) is pushing the frontier back towards CPUs
Phil Dunn
and actually, I believe that CPU memory I/O bandwidth is becoming a challenge especially as we move to in-memory Database & applications
Brett Murphy
Just to keep you honest, #Power8 delivers 1 TB/socket today which is what the M6-32 offers.