Oracle SPARC Servers Reviews

My main use case for Oracle SPARC Servers is that they are very stable and excellent to virtualize and to consolidate because of their virtualization solution.

The best features Oracle SPARC Servers offer are that they are very stable and with high performance.

Regarding the high performance aspect, I can say that they are great for databases and Java applications.

Oracle SPARC Servers have positively impacted our organization because it's very good for our budget since we can use the system for so many years and don't have to buy new systems.

Oracle SPARC Servers are fine as they are. There are no additional improvements needed for Oracle SPARC Servers that I haven't mentioned yet.

I have been using Oracle SPARC Servers for 26 years.

We are using Oracle SPARC Servers since many years and they are very stable, and they can run without problems for more than 10 years, so you don't have to buy new systems every two years. Oracle SPARC Servers are very stable with no issues over the years.

The scalability of Oracle SPARC Servers is that they scale very well.

The customer support is good.

Positive

I did not previously use a different solution.

I cannot share relevant metrics.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it's all okay.

Before choosing Oracle SPARC Servers, I did not evaluate other options.

My advice for others looking into using Oracle SPARC Servers is to take a look if you need a long-term solution. I have rated this review a 10.

Our company uses the solution for our core applications. It is installed on the back end and houses records for our bank-wide system. Nearly all 300 employees use the solution on the back end. 

The operating system is rock solid and the best I have ever used. 

You can perform nearly 100% of things online without needing downtime. 

The solution has rich virtualization features that allow you to host many VMs on one box. 

The processors are very powerful. 

Oracle doesn't have a good roadmap for the solution because they are moving to the x86 platform. Oracle is focusing on the cloud platform with a PCA and standard x86 architecture. Linux is their other OS and is mostly in the cloud. We don't see much development happening on Solaris even though it came as an acquisition from Sun Microsystems. Eventually, the solution and its platform will die because there has been no new development on the Solaris end and we haven't seen new servers in the last five years. At this point, we are pretty sure there is no real roadmap or future for the solution.  

There is a shortage of expert engineers because Oracle is not pushing the technology. It is hard for us to find engineers because the number of people supporting us has considerably reduced. 

I have been using the solution for seven years. 

I have contacted technical support multiple times and they are good. Support is rated an eight out of ten. 

Positive

The setup is easy. 

We implemented the solution in-house. It took about three weeks to prep for deployment which included setting up hardware, assembling, and installing.

The hardware is expensive but it has very rich virtualization features that make it economical. You can have many VMs hosted on a single box. 

We are trying to move away from the solution for new applications because there is no real roadmap for the solution's future. 

I rate the solution an eight out of ten. 

Oracle SPARC Servers are mostly used in businesses like core banking activities. Most of my company's clients are related to the banking industry, and they use Oracle SPARC Servers to install and manage their core banking systems.

The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that Oracle Database functions very well with Oracle SPARC Servers.

I am not exactly a technical person who can speak about the solution's key features.

Oracle products are usually fine-tuned with the software of other Oracle products, like Oracle WebLogic Server Services, Oracle Database, and Oracle Core Banking Software and Solutions, as all the aforementioned products work very well with Oracle SPARC Servers. Oracle SPARC Servers should be fine-tuned well enough to work with the other servers and software products in the market, as it is an area where Oracle SPARC Servers lack.

The most challenging part concerning the product arises from the pricing model of the solution. Most of my company's clients state that Oracle SPARC Servers are costlier than the other servers available in the market, like the ones provided by IBM and the other normal line of servers.

With the solution's technical support, the turnaround time is high, making it an area of concern where improvements are required. When my company raises issues with the technical support team, we expect them to reach out to us within two days, but the support team's turnaround time goes beyond fifteen days.

I have been using Oracle SPARC Servers for more than six years. My company operates an integrator for Oracle.

It is a stable solution.

It is a scalable solution.

Mostly, my company deals with enterprise-sized businesses using Oracle SPARC Servers.

Though I wouldn't describe the solution's technical support as a good feature of the product, my company is okay with the current services offered by the solution's support team.

I rate the support a five or six out of ten.

Neutral

Oracle SPARC Servers can be easily installed.

The time taken to complete the deployment process of Oracle SPARC Servers memory from industry to industry. For a small-scale industry, the product's deployment can be done in a day, but it may take a week for bigger businesses to deploy the product.

Only two or three people were required to take care of the Oracle SPARC Servers deployment process in my company.

The solution is deployed on the cloud and on an on-premises model.

My company makes yearly payments toward the licensing costs attached to the solution. My company's clients, who have paid for the licensing costs attached to the solution, have also engaged with some third parties to receive technical support for the product.

Through research, I wanted to find out the exact difference between Oracle SPARC Servers and IBM Power Virtual Server.

The maintenance process of Oracle SPARC Servers is easy to handle. Server-wise, one person is enough to take care of the maintenance of the solution, but if multiple applications are deployed on the same server, then multiple teams are required to take care of the maintenance phase of the product.

In my opinion, if you already use Oracle products, then it is better to go with Oracle SPARC Servers.

I rate the overall tool an eight out of ten.

We use it as an automation tool for the parts of the ships we are building. The firms that produce these parts, can pull the specifications from the server.

Before I came on board they bought Oracle SPARC Servers and the migrations for different environments are a major improvement.

I have found the LDAP facilities most valuable. In addition, I like the CPU.

I would like to see a reduced price point.

I have been using Oracle SPARC Servers for the past year. I have been working in the industry for the past twenty years.

Oracle SPARC Servers are definitely stable.

There is scalability. I believe there are around a couple hundred individuals who have the application running. I have done a lot of migrations from five thousand servers, and zones, into LDAPs on the L five servers.

Technical support is good for us.

Positive

We are currently using HP and Dell servers on parallel systems.

The initial setup is pretty straightforward. However having a knowledge base with Solaris that is running on it, then it is not that difficult to work with. At least you know what you are doing with it.

We did the installation in-house and not through a third party.

The price is expensive however there is better hardware installed for the price. The application running on it is very important to us and this makes the price worth it.

I am satisfied with the service that is delivered. I would give it an eight out of ten.

We use Oracle SPARC Servers for the deployment of servers, storage backups, SAN switches, and all the enterprise services.

Our customers are happy with many features in Oracle SPARC Servers, like the automatic ASR feature.

Like IBM, Oracle SPARC Servers should be able to run other open operating systems like Linux.

I have been working with Oracle SPARC Servers for the last four years.

The solution has very high stability.

I rate Oracle SPARC Servers ten out of ten for stability.

Approximately six to seven of our clients are using Oracle SPARC Servers. Few of our clients are medium-sized businesses, and few are very large. The solution is very much scalable.

I rate Oracle SPARC Servers ten out of ten for scalability.

I rate Oracle SPARC Servers an eight to eight and a half out of ten for the ease of its initial setup.

The solution's deployment takes around 15 to 20 days, depending on the customer requirement and server quantity.

We follow the documents provided on Oracle sites to deploy the solution. We follow the guidelines and steps in the manner that is documented.

We have deployed private cloud appliances for our suite customers currently.

I would recommend Oracle SPARC Servers to other users. Oracle SPARC Servers is a stable solution with prominent troubleshooting features.

Overall, I rate Oracle SPARC Servers a nine out of ten.

It is a very good platform, and we do not have any problems. We are using it with SAP.

The performance is the best feature. We have been using it for 13 years and despite the database increasing to three terabytes, we have had no issues.

They have declared the end of life of the hardware, so they should ensure they have support for existing customers. There is a feature in IBM that I would like to see here. IBM has a feature where you can have a system backup, so whenever you want to restore, you just put in the backup, give it a phone, and it will restore.

We have been using this solution for 13 years and are using version seven, 64-bit. It is deployed on-premises.

We have around 1800 users.

They have a beautiful feature called automatic service request, so if some other party is going to fail, they have telemetry data that informs them before we know it.

The initial setup is easy. Oracle completed the deployment, and they were very professional.

I rate this solution a ten out of ten.

In India, we have a development center for implementation. I am in the FinTech industry. We have a large amount of customers that have implemented SPARC.

The processor is very helpful and the licensing is very flexible.

There is a huge difference between the M Series and the T Series. They need some sort of modeling because IBM has different types of models.

If I'm calculating the M Series, there is a large amount of core. The T Series has less, but there is no actual model we can fix up. When we actually require some support, we are going for the logical partitioning for two. At that point, when you are calculating processing power and memory, IBM offers more choices, whereas it's actually very difficult for Oracle.

I have been working with Oracle for more than 12 years.

It's stable and runs smoothly.

It's scalable.

Technical support could be improved.

I also have experience with IBM.

Compared to IBM, setup is much simpler.

We worked with a third-party integrator.

We have seen ROI. The ROI is better than IBM.

The licensing is flexible.

I would rate this solution 9 out of 10.

We are using Oracle SPARC Servers for our oracle EBS. 

We can install only Oracle Solaris on Oracle SPARC Servers, we cannot install any other operating system.

The Oracle server is very powerful. They are more powerful and durable compared to Intel hardware. Which has been a benefit to our organization.

The solution could improve by giving a clear roadmap about the future. I'm not seeing a lot of improvements on the OS side of the software. They need to work more on the operating system.

I have been using Oracle SPARC Servers for approximately seven years.

The stability of the solution is excellent, it is reliable. Once you install and configure it then it'll run smoothly. It will not give you any issues.

We have approximately 1,000 users using this solution. We have plans to increase the usage of the solution. We have some older hardware and we will be replacing it with the latest model of Oracle SPARC Servers. 

The technical support from the vendor quality depends upon the issue. Sometimes they will give you very good support and other times they will pass you on to someone. It will depend upon the issue.

Previously we used Intel server then we migrate to Solaris. We switched because we heard about the high performance of Oracle hardware and software works.

The setup is simple, but the engineer has to have knowledge about Solaris to manage it. It is not like Linux or another operating system. It's a little bit different compared to Red Hat and other Linux variations. The full deployment takes approximately two days.

We used the help of the vendors to deploy it. After that we are have been managing it, even though if it requires any upgrade or anything, we are doing it in-house. We don't require other people for maintenance.

Oracle SPARC Servers are expensive to manage, this is because after five years Oracle will increase the support charges for the hardware. The licensing policy for Oracle is different for Intel and Sparc. It will cost you less if you use your Oracle hardware with Oracle SPARC Servers.

Once we cross five years, the parts will not be locally maintained by Oracle. Sometimes we need to wait for a week, 10 days or a month to get the replacement. Even though you are having support from Oracle,  you have to wait. It is a very bad thing.

When rating the reliability and sustainability of the solution I will rate it nine out of ten, but when it comes to supporting the solution when it becomes old, I rate it a six out of ten.

But I need just one digit, Ali, like in general. So what will it be?

I rate Oracle SPARC Servers a six out of ten.

Overall I gave the solution a six out of ten because once we start using Oracle SPARC Servers, it's very difficult to get out of it because it requires a platform migration. Many things will make it difficult to move to another architecture afterward.