Engineered For Fast and Reliable Deployment: DATA SHEET / Oracle Exadata Database Machine X8M-2

The Oracle Exadata Database Machine is engineered to deliver
dramatically better performance, cost effectiveness, and availability for

Oracle databases. Exadata features a modern cloud-enabled architecture
with scale-out high-performance database servers, scale-out intelligent
storage servers with state-of-the-art PCI flash, leading-edge storage cache
using persistent memory, and cloud scale RDMA over Converged Ethernet
(RoCE) internal fabric that connects all servers and storage. Unique
algorithms and protocols in Exadata implement database intelligence in
storage, compute, and networking to deliver higher performance and Oracle Exadata Database
Machine X8M-2
capacity at lower costs than other platforms, for all types of modern
database workloads including Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), Data
Warehousing (DW), In-Memory Analytics, Internet of Things(IoT), as well
as efficient consolidation of mixed workloads. Simple and fast to
implement, the Exadata Database Machine powers and protects your most
important databases. Exadata can be purchased and deployed on
premises as the ideal foundation for a private database cloud, or it can be
acquired using a subscription model and deployed in the Oracle Public
Cloud or Cloud at Customer with all infrastructure management performed
by Oracle.
ENGINEERED FOR FAST AND RELIABLE DEPLOYMENT

The Exadata Database Machine is the most cost-efficient and highest performance platform for
running Oracle Databases. Exadata is easy to deploy even for the most mission-critical systems, as
the database servers, storage servers and network are pre-configured, pre-tuned and pre-tested by
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1 DATA SHEET / Oracle Exadata Database Machine X8M-2

Oracle experts. Extensive end-to-end testing and validation ensures all components including
database software, operating system, firmware, drivers, etc., work seamlessly together and that there Key Features
are no performance bottlenecks or single points of failure. • Up to 912 CPU cores and
28.5 TB memory per rack for
Because all Exadata Database Machines are identically configured, customers benefit from the database processing
experience of thousands of other customers’ Exadata Database Machine deployments. Customer • Up to 576 CPU cores per rack
machines are also identical to the machines Oracle Support uses for problem identification and dedicated to SQL processing in
resolution, the machines Oracle Development uses for development and testing of the Oracle storage
Database, and the machines that run Oracle’s own public cloud services. Exadata is the most • Up to 27 TB of Persistent
Memory Acceleration per rack
thoroughly tested and tuned platform for running Oracle Database.
• 100 Gb/sec RoCE Network
• Complete redundancy for high
Any application that uses the Oracle Database today can be seamlessly migrated to the
availability
Exadata Database Machine, with no changes to the application. Likewise, any Oracle Database can
• From 2 to 19 Database Servers
also be easily migrated off Exadata, eliminating “lock-in” concerns. per rack
• From 3 to 18 Storage Servers
EXTREME SYSTEM SCALABILITY AND GROWTH WITH ELASTIC CONFIGURATIONS per rack
• Up to 920 TB of flash capacity
The Exadata Database Machine uses a scale-out architecture for both database servers and storage (raw) per rack
servers. As workloads grow, database CPUs, storage, and networking can be added to an Exadata • Up to 3.0 PB of disk capacity
Database Machine to scale without bottlenecks. The architecture expands from small to extremely (raw) per rack
large configurations to accommodate workloads of any size.
A brand new high-bandwidth low-latency 100 Gb/sec RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)
Network Fabric connects all the components inside an Exadata Database Machine. Specialized
database networking protocols deliver much lower latency and higher bandwidth than is possible with
generic communication protocols for faster response time for OLTP operations and higher
throughput for analytic workloads. External connectivity to the Exadata Database Machine is via Key Benefits
standard 10 Gb/sec or 25 Gb/sec Ethernet. • Pre-configured, pre-tested
system optimized for all
Exadata Database Machine is the most versatile database platform. The Exadata X8M-2 database applications
Database Machine uses powerful database servers, each with two 24-core x86 processors and • Uncompressed I/O bandwidth of
384 GB of memory (expandable up to 1.5 TB). Exadata also uses scale-out, intelligent storage servers up to 560 GB/sec per full rack
available in two configurations – High Capacity (HC) or Extreme Flash (EF). HC Storage Servers have from SQL
• Ability to perform up to 16M 8K
four NVMe PCI Flash cards each with 6.4 TB (raw) Exadata Smart Flash Cache and twelve 14 TB
database read I/O operations, or
7,200 RPM disks. EF Storage Servers have an all-flash configuration with eight NVMe PCI Flash 5.1M 8K Flash write I/O
drives, each with 6.4 TB (raw) storage capacity. Exadata X8M HC and EF Storage now include operations per second in a
persistent memory, further boosting capacity and performance. HC and EF Servers receive twelve 128 single rack
GB Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory modules as a new tier between DRAM and flash. Exadata • Easily add compute or storage
combines persistent memory with innovative RDMA algorithms that bypass the network and I/O servers to meet the needs of
stack, eliminating expensive CPU interrupts and context switches, reducing latency by 10x, any size application
• Scale by connecting multiple
from 200µs to less than 19µs.
Exadata Database Machine
X8M-2 racks or Exadata X8M
The minimal configuration of an Exadata Database Machine consists of two database servers and
Storage Expansion Racks. Up to
three storage servers, which can be expanded into elastic configurations adding more database 18 racks can be connected by
and/or storage servers within the same rack. Elastic configurations provide a flexible and efficient simply adding RoCE cables and
mechanism to meet any size business need. internal switches. Larger
configurations can be built with
In addition to expanding within a rack, multiple Exadata X8M racks can be connected using the external RoCE switches
integrated RoCE network fabric to form even larger configurations. For example, a system
composed of four racks is simply four times as powerful as a single rack: it provides four times the I/O
throughput, four times the storage capacity, and four times the processing power. It can be configured
as a single system or logically partitioned for multiple databases. Scaling out is easy, as Oracle Real

Application Clusters (RAC) can dynamically add more processing power, and Automatic Storage
Management (ASM) can dynamically add more storage capacity.
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• Oracle Database Exadata Cloud

Service
• Oracle Database Exadata Cloud
at Customer
• Oracle Exadata Database
Machine X8M-8
• Oracle Exadata Storage
Expansion Rack X8M-2
• Oracle Exadata Storage Server
X8M-2 Plus Network Fabric
• Oracle Exadata Database
Server X8M-2 Plus Network
Fabric
• Oracle Database 11g, 12c, 18c
and 19c
• Real Application Clusters
• Partitioning
• Multitenant
• Database In-Memory
Figure 1. Elastic Scale-out to Multi-rack Exadata • Advanced Compression
• Advanced Security
When large storage capacity is required, the Oracle Exadata X8M Storage Expansion Rack is • Active Data Guard
available. The Exadata Storage Expansion Rack enables customers to grow the storage capacity and • GoldenGate
• Real Application Testing
corresponding bandwidth of any Exadata Database Machine. It is designed for database deployments
• OLAP
with very large amounts of data, including historical or archive data, backups, documents, images,
• Advanced Analytics
XML, JSON, and LOBs. The storage expansion rack connects to the Exadata Database Machine • Business Intelligence
using the integrated RoCE network fabric and is configured with a few simple commands, as there are • Enterprise Manager
no LUNs or mount points. The starting configuration of the Oracle Exadata Storage Expansion Rack • Oracle Linux
consists of four storage servers and can be expanded with additional storage servers. • Oracle Virtual Machine
NEW WITH EXADATA X8M: GROUNDBREAKING RDMA BASED NETWORK FABRIC

The Exadata X8M release provides the next generation in ultra-fast cloud scale networking fabric,
RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE). RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) allows one
computer to directly access data from another without Operating System or CPU involvement, for high
bandwidth and low latency. The network card directly reads/writes memory with no extra copying or
buffering and very low latency. RDMA is an integral part of the Exadata high-performance architecture,
and has been tuned and enhanced over the past decade, underpinning several Exadata-only
technologies such as Exafusion Direct-to-Wire Protocol and Smart Fusion Block Transfer. As the
RoCE API infrastructure is identical to InfiniBand’s, all existing Exadata performance features are Related Services
available on RoCE. The following services are
available from Oracle:
The Exadata X8M release implements 100 Gb/sec RoCE network fabric, making the world’s fastest
• Advanced Customer Services
database machine even faster. Real world database workloads running on Exadata X8M, deployed
• Oracle Premier Support for
with the new shared persistent memory accelerator, have smashed the previous benchmark of Systems
6.7M Read IOPS, set by Exadata X8, with over 16 Million Read OLTP Read IOPS (8K IOs). • Oracle Platinum Services
• Oracle Consulting Services
• Oracle University courses

“I would recommend Exadata
NEW WITH EXADATA X8M: SHARED PERSISTENT MEMORY ACCELERATION
as a platform for performance,
New with Exadata X8M, storage servers include persistent memory (PMEM) data and commit reliability and ease of support.
Those three things mean very
accelerators in front of flash cache, enabling orders of magnitude lower latency accessing remotely
much to me in my daily life.”
stored data. Persistent memory is a new silicon technology, adding a distinct storage tier of
performance, capacity, and price between DRAM and Flash. As the persistent memory is physically Richard Ewald
present on the memory bus of the storage server, reads perform at memory speed, much faster than Senior Technical Architect
flash. Writes are persistent, surviving power cycles, unlike DRAM. By utilizing RDMA to access Sprint
persistent memory remotely, Exadata Smart PMEM Cache is able to bypass the network, I/O
software, interrupts and context switches, achieving more than 10x lower latency than previous
Exadata generations, down to less than 19 microseconds. Smart Exadata System Software also
ensures data is mirrored across storage servers, which provides additional fault-tolerance. Exadata’s
unique end-to-end integration between Oracle Database and Exadata Storage automatically identifies
the hottest data blocks to store, while ensuring database, persistent memory, and flash cache do not
hold the same block multiple times, increasing the efficiency across the storage tiers. Adding
persistent memory to the storage tier means the aggregate performance of this new cache tier can be
dynamically used by any database on any server. This is a significant advantage over general-purpose
storage architectures, which preclude sharing across servers.
Another smart new Exadata System Software feature boosts log write performance. Log write latency
is critical for OLTP performance, a faster log write means faster commit times. Inversely, any “Oracle Exadata enabled
slowdown of log writes can cause the database to stall. Unique to Exadata X8M, Exadata Smart seamless and rapid migration
PMEM Log automatically enables the database to issue a one-way RDMA log write to persistent of our cloud-based, integrated
memory. RDMA and persistent memory technologies allow the log write to occur without business applications, required
acknowledgement, and smart software places the write across multiple servers for resilience. This no major modifications, and
leads to an 8x performance increase in log writes. helped us reduce costs. With
Oracle, we dramatically
Security and management of this new tier are also automated. Persistent memory is configured improved our batch processing
speed by 241x and overall
automatically at installation time, with no user interaction required. Hardware monitoring is configured
system performance by 3x,
out of the box. Persistent memory is only accessible to databases using database access controls, enabling us to improve
ensuring end to end security of data. Deploying persistent memory in Exadata X8M is so simple, it’s operating efficiency for our
transparent. daily, critical tasks and to
enhance customer service.”
Kyoji Kato
Executive Officer and GM
Daiwa House
Figure 2. Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory modules
EXTREME FLASH STORAGE SERVER: RECORD-BREAKING I/O PERFORMANCE

Exadata Extreme Flash (EF) Storage Server, first introduced with Exadata X5, is the foundation of a
database-optimized all-flash Exadata Database Machine. Each EF Storage Server contains eight 6.4
TB Flash Accelerator F640v2 NVMe PCI Flash drives, offering 51.2 TB raw flash capacity per EF
Storage Server. This state-of-the-art flash memory improves speed and power efficiency, and provides
an expected endurance of 8 years or more for typical database workloads. In addition, Exadata
delivers ultra-high performance by placing these flash devices directly on the high speed PCI bus
rather than behind slow disk controllers and directors. Exadata X8M adds the shared persistent

memory acceleration tier, twelve 128 GB Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory modules in front of
flash to boost performance even more.
Exadata X8M uses a combination of scale-out storage, RDMA over Converged Ethernet networking,
database offload, persistent memory accelerator and PCI Flash to deliver extremely high performance
from memory and flash. A single rack configuration of Exadata Database Machine X8M-2, with 11
database servers and 11 Extreme Flash storage servers, using the new persistent memory
accelerator, can achieve up to 16 Million random 8K database read and 5.17 Million random 8K
flash write I/O operations per second (IOPS), which is an industry record for database workloads.
These are real-world end-to-end performance figures measured running SQL workloads with standard
8K database I/O sizes inside a single rack Exadata system, unlike storage vendor performance figures
based on small I/O sizes and low-level I/O tools and are therefore many times higher than can be
achieved from realistic SQL workloads. Exadata’s performance on real database workloads is orders
of magnitude faster than traditional storage array architectures, and is also much faster than current
all-flash storage arrays, whose architecture bottlenecks flash throughput.
“Oracle Exadata Database

Machine is helping to transform
our business. Our SAP
environment, one of the world’s
largest, can now support twice
as much throughput with
Figure 3. Flash Accelerator PCIe Card improved stability.”
Milt Simonds
HIGH CAPACITY STORAGE SERVER: TIERED DISK FLASH AND PERSISTENT Director, Enterprise Platform
MEMORY DELIVER COST OF DISK WITH SHARED MEMORY PERFORMANCE Delivery
AmerisourceBergen Corporation
The second Exadata storage option is the High Capacity (HC) Storage Server. This server includes
twelve 14 TB SAS disk drives with 168 TB total raw disk capacity. It also has four Flash Accelerator
F640v2 NVMe PCIe cards with a total raw capacity of 25.6 TB of flash memory. Exadata X8M adds
the shared persistent memory acceleration tier, twelve 128 GB Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent
Memory modules in front of flash to boost performance even more. Deployed using smart software,
Exadata Smart PMEM Cache, only the hottest database blocks are automatically cached in this new
tier. Accessible over RDMA direct from the database delivers the highest I/O rates at an extremely low
latency.
Flash in the HC Storage Server can be used directly as flash disks, but is almost always configured as
a flash cache (Exadata Smart Flash Cache) in front of disk storage behind the PMEM Cache to
deliver the best performance. Exadata Smart Flash Cache is used in-sync with PMEM Cache to
automatically cache frequently accessed data while keeping infrequently accessed data on disk,
delivering the high I/O rates and fast response times of flash with the large capacity and low cost of
disk. Exadata uniquely understands database workloads and knows when to avoid caching data
that will negatively affect overall performance. For example, if large write I/Os caused by backups
or large table scans are likely to disrupt higher priority OLTP or scan operations, those large I/Os will
bypass the flash cache and go straight to disk. Otherwise, Exadata System Software will utilize
additional spare flash capacity and I/O bandwidth to optimize performance by caching these I/Os. In
addition to automatic caching, administrators can optionally provide SQL directives to ensure that
specific tables, indexes, or partitions are preferentially retained in the flash cache.
It is common for hit rates in the Exadata Smart Flash Cache to be over 95%, or even 99% in real-world
database workloads, yielding an effective flash capacity many times larger than the physical flash. For

example, a traditional full rack, with 8 database servers and 14 High Capacity Storage Servers often
has an effective flash capacity close to the usable disk capacity of 700 TB. “We chose Oracle Exadata
because it offered a complete
The Exadata Smart Flash Cache also caches database block writes using Exadata Write Back Flash solution ... we’ve created daily
Cache technology. Write caching eliminates disk bottlenecks in large scale OLTP and batch financial reports 4x faster and
workloads. The flash write capacity of a single full rack Exadata Database Machine X8M-2 with 8 liquidity risk reports 7x faster
to consistently meet our
database servers and 14 High Capacity Storage Servers exceeds 6.5 Million 8K flash write I/O
service-level agreement,
operations per second (IOPS). The Exadata write cache is transparent, persistent, and fully
improved credit risk
redundant, with performance comparable to dozens of enterprise disk arrays with thousands of disk management, and reduced our
drives. data center footprint.”
The automatic data tiering between RAM, persistent memory, flash and disk in Exadata provides Vaibhav Samant
Senior Vice President, IT
tremendous advantages over other flash-based solutions. Many storage vendors have developed
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flash-only arrays to achieve higher performance than traditional arrays. These flash-only arrays deliver
better performance but cannot match the cost advantages of Exadata’s smart tiering of data between
disk and flash, as the overall size of data that can benefit from flash is limited to the size of expensive
flash. And these flash arrays are unable to benefit from Exadata’s unique database-aware storage
optimization technologies. Generic data deduplication provided by some flash arrays is effective for
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure environments, but not for databases.
Exadata not only delivers much more capacity than generic all-flash arrays, it also delivers better
performance. Flash-only storage arrays cannot match the throughput of Exadata's integrated and
optimized architecture with full 100 Gb/sec RDMA over converged ethernet based scale-out network,
fast PCI Flash, offload of data intensive operations to storage, and algorithms throughout that are
specifically optimized for databases.
EXTENDED CAPACITY STORAGE SERVER: MUCH LOWER COST EXADATA STORAGE

FOR LOW USE DATA
A third Exadata storage option was introduced with Exadata X8 - the Extended (XT) Storage Server.
Each Exadata XT Storage Server includes twelve 14 TB SAS disk drives with 168 TB total raw disk
capacity. To achieve a lower cost, flash is not included, and storage software is optional in this storage
server. For the X8M generation, the XT Extended Storage server benefits from the addition of 100Gb/s
network.
This storage option extends the operational and management benefits of Exadata to rarely accessed
data that must be kept online. Exadata’s Extended (XT) Storage Server is:
• Efficient – The XT server offers the same high capacity as the HC Storage server, including
Hybrid Columnar Compression
• Simple – The XT server adds capacity to Exadata while remaining transparent to
applications, transparent to SQL, and retains the same operational model
• Secure – The XT server enables customers to extend to low-use data the same Exadata
security model and encryption used for online data
• Fast and Scalable – Unlike other low-use data storage solutions, the XT server is integrated
to the Exadata fabric, for fast access and easy scale-out
• Compatible – The XT server is just another flavor of Exadata Storage server – you can just
add XT servers to any Exadata rack
With Exadata Extended (XT) Storage Server, enterprises can meet their long-term data retention
compliance requirements with the same trusted and continually validated Exadata solution, avoiding
the operational risks and costs of managing information lifecycle across multiple platforms.

ACCELERATING DATABASE PROCESSING WITH SMART SYSTEM SOFTWARE
“The heart and soul of our
As data volumes continue their fast growth, conventional storage arrays struggle to quickly transfer stack right now is Oracle
data from disk and flash to database servers at a rate that keeps the CPUs busy. Modern servers with Exadata Database Machine.
With Oracle Exadata, we’ve
dozens of CPU cores can consume data at many tens to hundreds of gigabytes a second. This is far
been able to reduce queries
faster than conventional storage arrays can deliver data through their storage controllers and the
from days to minutes, and
storage network. those that used to take minutes
to seconds.”
Exadata System Software enables Exadata’s unparalleled performance without any of the
bottlenecks of traditional storage, by implementing a unique highly efficient database-optimized Chris Wones
storage infrastructure on the Exadata Storage Server. Each Exadata Storage Server has two 16-core Enterprise Architect
Dunnhumby
x86 processors that are used to offload database processing, and a rack of Exadata Database
Machine can have a total of up to 576 processor cores in the storage servers able to offload the
database servers. The CPUs in the storage servers do not replace database CPUs. Instead they
accelerate database intensive workloads similar to how graphics cards accelerate image intensive
workloads.
One of the many unique features of Exadata System software is Smart Scan technology, which
offloads data intensive SQL operations from the database servers directly into the storage
servers. By pushing SQL processing to the storage servers, data filtering and processing occur
immediately and in parallel across all storage servers, as data is read from disk and flash. Only the
rows and columns that are directly relevant to a query are sent to the database servers.
For example, if a query is executed to identify the customers who placed sales orders over $1000 in
the month of March, an Exadata system will offload the scanning of the table to the Exadata storage,
filter out all sales orders that are less than $1000, filter out sales orders not in March, and extract just
the relevant customer information. This reduces the data transferred to the database servers by orders
of magnitude. Smart Scan greatly accelerates query execution, eliminates bottlenecks, and “[With Exadata] We can more
significantly reduces the CPU usage of the database servers. quickly process 65 billion daily
transactions for data charging,
while providing real-time
Storage Index is another powerful unique capability of Oracle Exadata System software that helps
information for customer
avoid unnecessary I/O operations and improves overall performance. The storage index, maintained
inquiries, increasing customer
in-memory at the storage server, tracks summary information for table columns contained in a storage satisfaction, and reducing
region on that storage server. When a query specifies a WHERE clause, Exadata System software costs.”
examines the storage index using a Bloom filter to determine if rows with the specified column value
Jin Hyung Lee
might exist in a region of disk on the storage server. If the column value doesn’t exist in the Bloom
ICT Team Manager, Networking
filter, then scan I/O in that region for that query is skipped. Storage Indexes make many SQL Engineering
operations run dramatically faster because large numbers of I/O operations are automatically replaced SK Telecom
by a few in-memory lookups.
Besides the intrinsic capabilities of Exadata System software, the combination of Oracle Database
software, Exadata System software and Exadata infrastructure enables several additional unique
capabilities that offer unparalleled performance levels for OLTP workloads. For example, Exafusion
Direct-to-Wire Protocol uniquely allows database processes to read and send Oracle Real
Applications Cluster (Oracle RAC) messages directly over the ultra-fast RoCE network using Remote
Direct Memory Access (RDMA), bypassing the OS kernel and networking software overhead. This
improves the response time and scalability of Oracle RAC OLTP configurations on Oracle Exadata
Database Machine, especially for workloads with high-contention updates.
In some OLTP workloads, more than half of remote reads are for Undo Blocks to satisfy read
consistency. Exadata uniquely leverages ultra-fast RDMA to read UNDO blocks from other database
instances, further improving OLTP performance.

The Smart Fusion Block Transfer capability uniquely improves performance of a RAC OLTP
configuration further by eliminating the impact of redo log write latency, especially when hot blocks
need to be transferred between sending and receiving nodes. The block is transferred as soon as the
I/O to the redo log is issued at the sending node, without waiting for it to complete. Oracle internal
tests show that Smart Block Transfer increases throughput (about 40% higher) and decreases
response times (about 33% less) for communication-intensive workloads. “Exadata is the heart of the
booking engine, and we cannot
To further accelerate OLTP workloads, new with Exadata X8M High Capacity and Extreme Fast operate as a business, we
cannot sell tickets without it.”
Storage Servers, a Persistent Memory Commit Accelerator is added, enabling the database to perform
log writes via RDMA direct to the persistent memory buffer of multiple storage servers in parallel. James Callaghan
Deployed as Exadata Smart PMEM Log, it avoids interaction with the Operating System and the Chief Technologist
overhead of transferring data via the standard I/O path. This one-way transaction increases Westjet
performance of log writes by up to 8 times.
In addition, Exadata uniquely uses Machine Learning to implement Automatic Indexing with Oracle
Database 19c. Automatic Indexing continually analyzes executing SQL and creates new indexes to
accelerate performance. Automatic Indexing continuously learns and tunes the database as the
underlying data model or usage patterns change.
Exadata also uniquely implements Real Time Statistics gathering as DML operations insert, update
or delete data. Real Time Statistics allows the SQL optimizer to adapt plans dynamically as the
distribution of data changes.
OPTIMIZING STORAGE USE AND I/O THROUGH COMPRESSION

The Exadata Storage Server provides a unique compression capability called Hybrid Columnar
Compression (HCC) that enables dramatic reductions in storage for large databases. Hybrid
Columnar Compression technology is an innovative method of organizing data within a database table
that uses a combination of both row and columnar methods for storing data. This hybrid approach
achieves the compression benefits of columnar storage, while avoiding the performance shortfalls of a
pure columnar format. “Exadata delivers an amazing
20x compression for our Data
With Hybrid Columnar Compression, Exadata enables the highest levels of data compression possible Warehouse.”
with Oracle databases, and provides substantial cost-savings and performance improvements due to Jonathan Walsh
reduced I/O, especially for analytic workloads. Storage savings is data-dependent and often ranges Head of BI & DW
from 5x to 20x. Average storage savings is an industry-leading 10x. On conventional systems, Morrisons, Plc.
enabling high data compression has the drawback of reducing performance as it adds the load of
decompression to the CPU. Because the Exadata Database Machine is able to offload decompression
to processors in Exadata storage, and in addition there is reduced I/O need because of the high
compression achieved, most analytic workloads run faster using Hybrid Columnar Compression than
without it.
Two modes of Hybrid Columnar Compression are available. Warehouse compression mode is
suitable for read-intensive workloads and provides large storage savings and enhanced analytic
performance. Archive compression mode provides the highest degree of compression and is
targeted at data that is seldom accessed but still must be kept online. In addition, this data can now be
seamlessly stored on the XT storage server for further cost reduction.
On OLTP systems, Hybrid Columnar Compression can be used to compress older, less active data
while newer, more active and update-intensive data can be compressed using Advanced Row
Compression. Oracle Database Release 18c and above provides the ability to change the type of
compression used by individual table partitions online (even if there are global indexes on the table), to
ensure seamless tiering across different compression types as data ages and becomes less active.

For data analytics, Exadata Smart flash Cache implements a unique algorithm to accelerate reporting
and analytical queries, called Exadata Columnar flash Cache. Columnar flash Caching implements a
dual format architecture in Exadata flash by automatically transforming frequently scanned Hybrid
Columnar Compressed data into a pure columnar format as it is loaded into the flash cache. Smart
scans on pure columnar data in flash run faster because they read only the selected columns,
reducing flash I/Os and storage server CPU consumption. This accelerates reporting and analytic
queries while maintaining excellent performance for OLTP-style single row lookups.
FAULT TOLERANT AND FASTEST DATABASE IN-MEMORY MACHINE FOR ANALYTICS

AND MIXED WORKLOADS
Exadata is the ideal platform for running Oracle Database In-Memory. Oracle Database In-Memory on “I don’t get the calls in the
Exadata does not require all data to reside in memory. Data can be stored across multiple tiers of middle of the night anymore
storage, with the hottest data in memory providing extremely high query performance, active data on that we have a system down.
flash providing very high I/O throughput, and less active or older data on disk at a very low cost. A Exadata is taken as always
single query can access data from all three tiers: memory, flash, and disk, completely being available.”
transparently. This allows Exadata to run faster, support higher capacities and deliver lower costs James Callaghan
than competing products. Chief Technologist
Westjet
In addition, Exadata uniquely implements In-Memory columnar formats in Flash Cache. This
feature extends the Exadata Columnar Flash Cache by automatically transforming data into In-
Memory columnar formats as it is loaded into flash cache. Smart Scans also process multiple column
values with a single instruction by leveraging ultra-fast Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) Vector
instructions. Smart Scan results are passed back to the database server in Oracle Database In-
Memory formats, further reducing the load on database server CPUs. The effect is to seamlessly
extend the In-Memory columnar store size from DRAM capacity in the database server to flash
capacity in storage servers. An Exadata X8M-2 Full Rack HC has 360 TB of Flash Cache, capable of
servicing some of the largest in-memory workloads. Databases not using Oracle Database In-Memory
still benefit from Exadata Columnar Flash Cache without the vector processing optimizations.
Exadata uniquely implements Fault Tolerant memory duplication for Oracle Database In-Memory.
On a generic cluster configuration, when a server node fails, the in-memory data on that node is lost,
and it takes many minutes to repopulate the in-memory data on a surviving node. During this time,
analytic queries will run orders of magnitude slower. This means generic platforms will fail to meet “Our critical electronic
business SLAs. However, on Exadata, Fault-Tolerant memory duplication can eliminate this slowdown payments service has been live
by duplicating any subset of the in-memory data across the clustered database servers. If a database on Exadata since early 2011
with 100% uptime. The service
server fails, queries will transparently access the duplicate copy on a surviving database server and
reliably processes the transfer
continue without interruption. of billions of Euros per week
and achieves subsecond
Exadata uniquely integrates with Active Data Guard to allow customers to run In-Memory analytics on response times for online
a standby database, further improving the return on investment of the standby system, and enhancing enquiries.”
availability and overall performance.
Martin McGeough
Database Technical Architect
ENHANCED CONSOLIDATION USING ORACLE VIRTUAL MACHINES Vocalink
Consolidated environments running on Exadata X8M use KVM-based Oracle Virtual Machines
(OVMs) for a high degree of isolation between workloads, especially in hosted, shared, service
provider, and test/dev environments. Using OVM, multiple RAC clusters can be deployed on the same
set of database servers of the Exadata Database Machine, for consolidation of applications with
specific Clusterware version needs.
Exadata Database Machine is the world’s fastest virtualized database platform. Exadata virtual
machines use high speed networking with Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) to ensure that
performance within a virtual machine is similar to Exadata’s excellent raw hardware performance.

Exadata Smart Scans greatly decrease virtualization overhead compared to other platforms by
dramatically reducing message traffic between virtual machines. Exadata virtual machines can
dynamically expand or shrink the use of CPUs based on the workload requirement of the applications
running in that virtual machine.
Virtual machines on Exadata are considered Trusted Partitions and therefore software can be licensed
at the virtual machine level instead of the physical processor level. Without Trusted Partitions,
database options and other Oracle software must be licensed at a server or cluster level even though
“By consolidating 350 database
not all databases running on that server or cluster may require a particular option.
servers and storage systems
onto Oracle Exadata, we gained
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Exadata Database Machine is the world's most secure database machine. Building on the high platform, enabling us to
security capabilities in the Oracle Database such as Transparent Data Encryption (TDE), Exadata calculate billings data 10x
uniquely moves decryption processing from database server software into the Exadata Storage faster, and halve maintenance
Server hardware. Exadata storage leverages hardware decryption and compression together to costs.”
provide the highest performance secure databases. Encryption occurs after the data is Tomoki Shimamura
compressed so that the cost of decryption is decreased by the degree of compression. By Senior Manager Billing Systems
leveraging both technologies, Exadata is able to query fully encrypted and compressed databases with Group
minimal overhead at a rate of hundreds of gigabytes of (original) user data per second. In addition, NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
TDE provides a complete key management solution to keep all data encrypted and secure.
Exadata is designed and delivered as an integrated whole, instead of a collection of components. In

traditional database deployments, the customer takes on all the system integration tasks, including the
task of ensuring the security of each individual software and hardware component, and ensuring that
security is maintained across the full product stack. Oracle delivers full stack security in the
Exadata Database Machine. Exadata virtual machines provide an added layer of isolation at the
operating system level. Additionally, on both physical and virtual deployments, Exadata systems use
minimal Oracle Linux distributions to ensure that just the RPMs required to run the Oracle Database
“By integrating 20 legacy
are installed and enabled. With this approach, system security is much stronger than default Linux
database servers for our
installations and many security vulnerabilities are avoided. In addition, Exadata leverages the ksplice investment trust sales system
capability of Oracle Linux to apply security updates while the OS stays online. into four Oracle Exadata
Database Machines, we can
Exadata security begins at power-up time with Secure Boot, which ensures that the system UEFI provide information to
firmware only allows the execution of cryptographically signed boot loaders that the system recognizes customers 136x faster, enhance
as trustworthy. With each reboot of the server, every executed component is verified. This prevents our competitive advantage, and
malware from hiding embedded code in the boot chain. support transaction growth for
the next 10 years at lower
In addition, the disk and flash technologies used in Exadata X8M enable Stored Data Encryption. In costs.”
Stored Data Encryption, disk and flash storage devices encrypt all user data as it enters the devices. Tomoshiro Takemoto
Exadata's Secure Erase feature leverages this capability when an Exadata is re-purposed or Senior Managing Director
decommissioned to instantly erase all user data present on storage devices by changing the Cloud Computing Service Division
encryption keys used to encrypt the user data. With Secure Erase, because the previous encryption Nomura Research Institute Ltd.
key is deleted, there is no need to worry about latent data left on storage devices due to over-
provisioning or sector sparing.
Exadata security has been probed and evaluated by hundreds of leading banks, telecoms, and
government organizations worldwide. The security findings of all these evaluations have been
incorporated into the Exadata standard configuration. Therefore Exadata benefits from scrutiny both
by Oracle Security experts and by hundreds of industry security experts around the world.

MISSION CRITICAL HIGH AVAILABILITY
The Exadata Database Machine is engineered to provide the highest levels of availability. All types of
failures are protected against from simple failures such as disk, server, or network, to complex site
“With Oracle Platinum
failures and human errors. Each Exadata Database Machine has completely redundant hardware,
Services, we achieved a 40%
including redundant networking, redundant Power Distribution Units (PDU), redundant power supplies, increase in operational
and redundant database and storage servers. Oracle RAC protects against database server failure. efficiency - virtually eliminating
Oracle ASM provides data mirroring to protect against disk or storage server failures. Oracle RMAN the need for dedicated
provides extremely fast and efficient backups to disk or tape. Oracle’s Flashback technology allows resources to perform updates,
backing out user errors at the database, table or even row level. Using Oracle Data Guard, a second monitor systems, and resolve
Exadata Database Machine can be deployed in a Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) incidents.”
configuration to transparently maintain a real-time copy of the database at a remote site and provide Roland Schiller
full protection against primary database failures and site disasters. Architect
Swiss Re
Exadata in an MAA configuration is recognized by the analyst firm IDC as a system that delivers at
least 5-nines availability and is categorized in the IDC AL4 fault-tolerant market segment, along with
HP Integrity NonStop and IBM z Systems1.
The Exadata principle of deep hardware and software integration is also evident in the many ways
Exadata uniquely assures high availability across several different failure conditions. One such unique
capability is Instant Detection of Compute and Storage Server Failures. On non-Exadata
platforms, detecting a server failure requires waiting for a long timeout, leading to extended application
brownouts. Exadata X8M implements a unique RDMA-based sub-second node death detection,
leading to virtual elimination of application brownout conditions.
Disk and flash devices occasionally exhibit very long latency I/O operations due to internal recovery of
failed sectors, internal firmware reboots, or wear leveling. These long I/O operations can cause stalls
in mission critical OLTP databases. With Exadata’s unique I/O Latency Capping, Oracle Exadata “We’ve seen system
System software automatically redirects read I/O operations to an ASM-mirrored copy of the data performance increase 4x and
the total cost of storage
when the latency of a read I/O is much longer than expected. Similarly, it automatically redirects high
ownership fall by 30%, even as
latency write I/O operations to a healthy flash device, eliminating write outliers. Exadata System our data volumes have
Software uses Machine Learning techniques to predict components susceptible to failure and takes surged.”
proactive action to gracefully take such components out of service. If disks do fail, ASM performs a
Holger Haun
rebalance operation for the data that was resident on the disk. Exadata allows hot swapping of disks,
Managing Director
fans, power supplies, and PCIe Flash cards to avoid downtime. Exadata System software takes IDS GmbH – Analysis and
rebalance one step further by preserving the flash cache population and storage indexes when moving Reporting Service
data between storage servers to maintain consistent application performance. On rare occasions
when there are outliers within the networking subsystem, Exadata redirects the I/O issued by the
database server to another storage server.
Exadata automates monitoring of CPU, memory, Input/Output, file system, and network. This
automation combines machine learning techniques with the deep lessons learned from thousands of
mission critical real-world deployments. For example, Exadata can detect that anomalous use of
system resources is affecting database performance, identify the process responsible, and issue an
alert, without any pre-existing set-up.
Because of its industry leading availability, the Exadata Database Machine has been deployed by
leading companies for their most critical applications including interbank fund transfers, online
securities trading, real-time call tracking, and web-based retailing. Exadata’s Mission Critical
1
Worldwide Fault-Tolerant Servers Market Shares, 2014: Vendors Are Hearing the Customer – More Bold Moves Needed to Grow the Segment, IDC,
Peter Rutten, Lloyd Cohen, October 2015

availability capabilities are not restricted to OLTP workloads; they also apply to warehousing and
analytics.
IDEAL PLATFORM FOR DATABASE AS A SERVICE

The Exadata Database Machine can host many databases, enabling massive database consolidation
or a sophisticated Database as a Service private cloud. Multi-database environments inherently have
diverse, complex, and unpredictable workloads mixing OLTP, analytics, and batch operations with
“On an annual basis Exadata
sequential and random-access patterns. Exadata’s ability to run any type or mix of database
provides at least half a million
workloads with industry leading scalability and performance makes it an ideal consolidation dollars in savings in operating
platform – whether for multi-database workloads, or for pluggable databases with Oracle Multitenant in costs.”
Oracle Database 12c, 18c, and Oracle Database 19c.
James Callaghan
Chief Technologist
Multi-database environments create an inherent risk that one database will consume too many
Westjet
resources and therefore impact the quality of service of other databases. The Exadata Database
Machine uniquely provides end-to-end prioritization from the application to database CPUs,
network, and storage. Priorities and resource limits can be specified at the physical database,
pluggable database, connection, application, user, or even job level to ensure that each of the
consolidated databases or SQL operations receives the necessary resources and achieves the target
response times.
Exadata uniquely implements database and I/O resource management. Fine-grained priorities
specified for operations at the database level are automatically communicated to Exadata Storage
Servers and applied to each I/O operation to ensure that prioritization of database operations applies
to both CPU operations and I/O operations. The same resource management principles can also be
applied when multiple databases are deployed on one Exadata rack, as is typical in a consolidated
private cloud.
New in the X8M generation, Exadata utilizes RDMA over Converged Ethernet protocols to ensure
network intensive workloads such as reporting, batch, and backups don’t stall latency sensitive
interactive workloads. Latency sensitive network operations, such as RAC Cache Fusion
communication, and log file writes, travel across high priority network channels within the converged
ethernet fabric. Non-latency sensitive traffic travels on other channels, with their own network switch
buffers.
Because of Exadata’s unique Consolidation and Database as a Service capabilities, Exadata is the
only platform that can support up to 4000 Pluggable Databases within a single Oracle Multitenant
Container Database.
FAST DEPLOYMENT OF DEVELOPMENT AND TEST DATABASES WITH EXADATA

SNAPSHOTS AND CONTAINERS
Space-efficient database snapshots can be quickly created for test and development purposes directly
on Exadata. Exadata database snapshots are integrated with Oracle Multitenant to provide an
extremely simple interface for creating new pluggable database (PDB) snapshots.
Snapshots start with a shared read-only copy of the production database (or PDB) that has been
cleansed of sensitive information. A hierarchy of read-write snapshots can be created from this shared
copy. As changes are made, each snapshot writes the changed blocks to a sparse disk group. Since
multiple users can create independent snapshots from the same base database copy, multiple test
and development environments can share space while maintaining independent databases for each
task.

All Exadata specific features such as Smart Scan, resource management and Smart flash Cache work
seamlessly on database instances created via Exadata snapshots, hence providing an exact test and
development environment while using a fraction of valuable storage resources. Backups of snapshots
on Exadata are also space efficient as only the changed information is backed up.
In addition, Exadata supports Docker containers, enabling customers to easily and rapidly provision
databases for testing and development to foster agile development. Customer can also use Docker
containers to host lightweight applications and agents.
COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM MANAGEMENT

Oracle Enterprise Manager uses a holistic approach to manage the Exadata Database Machine and
provides comprehensive capabilities from monitoring and reporting to active lifecycle management. It
enables:
• Unified Monitoring: Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c uniquely supports a single pane of glass
view of all the hardware and software components such as database servers, storage
servers, network switches, and monitors the operations running on them and their resource
utilization. DBAs can drill down from database monitoring screens to the Exadata storage
layer to quickly determine root causes of any performance bottlenecks.
• Lights-out monitoring within Enterprise Manager is optimized for Exadata with predefined
metrics and thresholds so that administrators receive timely notifications when issues arise,
and manage those exceptions. In addition, hardware incidents are automatically detected and
service requests logged to reduce problem resolution time.
• The Exachk tool, which is integrated with Enterprise Manager’s powerful compliance
framework, provides functionality for system administrators to automate the assessment of
Engineered Systems for known configuration problems and best practices. Administrators
can leverage the Consistency Check functionality to check for deviations in configuration
across the racks or among the database servers of a rack.
• Exadata’s built in Management Server (MS) processes constantly monitor the health of
hardware and software components, and send alerts to both administrators and Oracle
support when faulty components are detected.
HIGHEST LEVEL OF SERVICE

Oracle offers a complete set of support services for the Exadata family of products including: 24x7
hardware service, system monitoring, software installation and configuration among other standard
and custom offerings.
Of particular value is Oracle Platinum Services that is available exclusively for Oracle’s Engineered
Systems. Platinum Services provides fault monitoring, faster response times, and expedited escalation
to development. With Platinum Services, Oracle support engineers perform software maintenance and
patching remotely. Platinum Services provides a higher level of support than has ever been available
before for all software and hardware within an Engineered System including the Oracle Database.
Platinum Services is provided at no extra charge to Exadata customers.
IT AGILITY
Exadata is a complete system for running databases including storage, servers, and internal networks.
Management of a traditional database system is typically spread across the management teams of
each of the components such as the database team, the storage team, and the system administration
team. In contrast, an Exadata system is typically managed by a unified Database Machine
Administration (DMA) team. Database Machine Administrators have full control of all resources in
the Exadata Database Machine including storage resources. New database deployments and

configuration changes can be implemented by the Database Machine Administrators without
coordination across different component management teams that are often overloaded and have
differing priorities. Database Machine Administrators can focus on application and business specific
enhancements rather than coordinating across component teams, or tuning and triaging of low level
configuration issues.
DRAMATICALLY LOWER COSTS

Because of the extreme performance, high storage capacity, and unique compression capabilities
delivered by the Exadata Database Machine, workloads that would require very large traditional
hardware systems can be run on much smaller Exadata systems. The hardware needed for an
application deployed on an Exadata system is often reduced 2-4X compared to a traditional system.
Exadata provides a huge RAM, flash, and disk footprint for large data sets. Raw disk storage on an
Exadata full rack can exceed 3 Petabytes while raw flash storage can be up to 920 TB. In addition,
Hybrid Columnar Compression often expands storage and memory capacity 10X. By intelligently
moving active data across disk, flash, and memory tiers, Exadata simultaneously delivers the highest
performance and the lowest cost.
Exadata has the unique ability to consolidate many databases supporting multiple workloads in a
single cloud platform. High-end OLTP, analytics, batch, reporting, and backups can all run
simultaneously within and across databases with extreme performance. The extreme performance
and capacity of Exadata enables very large numbers of databases and workloads to be
consolidated on Exadata. Consolidating databases on Exadata reduces system hardware cost,
software cost, and greatly reduces ongoing operations cost.
The uniformity of Exadata Database Machine configurations results in large cost savings. Exadata
standardizes not just technologies, but also integration, testing, security, hardening, tuning,
and support. Customers deploy Exadata systems much faster and with a lot less labor than traditional
systems. Low level tuning, integration, and maintenance is reduced or eliminated. Because all
Exadata users run a configuration that is identical to thousands of other users, and is identical to
Oracle’s internal configurations, it is far less likely that issues will be encountered, and issue resolution
is quicker and simpler reducing both operations cost and downtime cost.
CAPACITY-ON-DEMAND SOFTWARE LICENSING

An X8M-2 database server has a substantial amount of compute capacity with two 24-core x86
processors (48 cores in total). The Capacity-on-Demand feature allows a number of cores per
database server to be turned off during the hardware installation, leaving at least 14 cores enabled. As
your workload grows and more cores are needed, Capacity-on-Demand can be used to re-enable
cores and license software 2 cores at a time. This pay-as-you-grow approach to software licensing is
another way in which Exadata helps to align costs with business growth.
EXADATA IN ORACLE PUBLIC CLOUD

With Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Service, customers can now run Oracle databases in the cloud
on Exadata, with the same extreme performance and availability experienced by thousands of
organizations deploying Exadata on-premises. Exadata Cloud Service combines the world’s #1
database – Oracle, and the most powerful database platform – Exadata, with all the simplicity and cost
effectiveness of the public cloud.
Oracle databases deployed in the cloud as part of this service include all Oracle Database options
and features – such as Oracle Multitenant, In-Memory Database, Real Application Clusters (RAC),
Active Data Guard, Partitioning, Advanced Compression, Advanced Security, etc. It also includes all

Oracle Enterprise Manager packs. Oracle databases deployed in the Exadata Cloud Service are 100%
compatible with those deployed on-premises, ensuring a smooth transition to the cloud, and an
efficient hybrid cloud strategy. With pay-as you-grow dedicated Exadata configurations, and
infrastructure managed by Oracle experts, Exadata Cloud Service enables business agility and
operational flexibility with zero CapEx.
Exadata Cloud Service is an ideal fit for:
• Running business-critical production OLTP or analytic databases at almost any scale without
incurring the capital expenditure and complexity of maintaining the underlying IT
infrastructure.
• Consolidating a variety of workloads in the Cloud using multiple Oracle Databases or Oracle
Multitenant.
• Maintaining synchronized Oracle standby or replica databases for disaster recovery in the
Cloud and/or query offloading using Oracle Active Data Guard or Oracle GoldenGate.
• Quickly provisioning high-performance Oracle databases for ad-hoc business reasons such
as feature development, functionality testing, application certification, proof-of-concept, try-
before-buy, Database sandbox testing, etc.
• Executing time-sensitive business applications such as launching a web-based marketing
campaign, running loyalty programs, rolling out new business initiatives, etc.
An attractive aspect of all these use cases for existing Oracle Database customers is that their
applications and data models do not have to change. Their data center simply expands to include the
elasticity and flexibility of the Oracle Cloud. They also do not have to invest in multiple cloud platforms
for multiple workloads since Exadata provides a unified platform for all workloads – analytics, data
warehousing, OLTP, consolidation, in-memory, and mixed-workloads.
With a database platform uniquely engineered for extreme performance for all workloads, along with
fast deployment, simplified management, low operating costs and reduced risks, Exadata Cloud
Service is the best Cloud Database platform available today.
Customers that are not able to move their databases to the Public Cloud can get the Oracle Public
Cloud implemented in their own data center using the Oracle Database Exadata Cloud at Customer.
Exadata Cloud at Customer:
• Is paid for using subscription based pricing that includes all Database and Exadata software,
all Exadata hardware, and remote operation and infrastructure management by Oracle.
• Includes the same Web and REST based DB and OS provisioning, management, and
orchestration as the Oracle Public Cloud.
• The Oracle Cloud Operations Team Manages the Exadata Infrastructure including Servers,
storage, storage software, networking, firmware, hypervisor, etc.
• Exadata is the only platform suitable for deploying Mission Critical databases using Cloud at
Customer.
EXADATA BUSINESS BENEFITS

Beyond the operational benefits of extreme performance, availability, security, and deployment
flexibilities across on-premises and Cloud, Exadata also directly benefits the business.
Exadata accelerates time to market for new business applications since the time needed for system
configuration, tuning, and testing is largely eliminated. Deployment times are reduced from months to
days, and the risk of unexpected system level issues after go-live is greatly reduced. When a new
application is deployed, it is common for unanticipated application usage patterns to create
performance issues. Exadata’s huge I/O, network, and compute throughput can absorb spikes created

by unanticipated workloads without slowing response times of mission critical workloads. Overall
Exadata speeds application deployment and reduces risk, allowing businesses to innovate faster.
Exadata’s extreme performance, large memory, and flash capacity enhance employee productivity
and customer satisfaction by greatly improving user response times. Users spend more time doing
useful work, and less time waiting for the system to respond.
Exadata’s extreme performance does not just improve business efficiency, it also enables business
users to make smarter decisions, discover growth opportunities, and reduce costs. Users can
analyze data in real-time, explore different possibilities, and perform rapid iteration to find better
solutions. Exadata enables:
• Real-time business data analysis

• Faster financial closes
• Better planning and budgeting
• More effective and faster projections
CONCLUSION
Exadata delivers a fully integrated database platform with the latest hardware technologies and
unique software to deliver extreme performance, availability, and security. This coupled with cost
savings, ease of management, and enhanced supportability result in greater business agility and
efficiency. Given what can be achieved with Exadata, it is no surprise it is the new global standard for
running Oracle Databases – whether on-premises, or in the Oracle Cloud.

Exadata Server Hardware1,2
SERVER TYPE CPU MEMORY DISK FLASH NETWORK
Database Server 2x 24-core Intel Xeon 8260 384 GB (default) to 1.5 TB 4x 1.2 TB None 2x 10 Gb copper Ethernet ports, or
processors (2.4GHz) (max) 10,000 RPM
2x 10/25 Gb optical Ethernet ports (client)
disks (hot-
2x 10/25 Gb optical Ethernet
swappable)
4x 10 Gb copper Ethernet ports, or
2x 10/25 Gb optical Ethernet (optional)
2x 100 Gb QSFP28 RoCE Fabric ports

1x 1/10 Gb copper Ethernet port (mgmt)
1x ILOM Ethernet port
Storage Server HC 2x 16-core Intel Xeon 5218 192 GB 12x 14 TB 4x 6.4 TB

processors (2.3GHz) 1.5 TB Persistent Memory 7,200 RPM NVMe
disks PCIe3.0
Flash cards
Storage Server EF 192 GB None 8x 6.4 TB

1.5 TB Persistent Memory NVMe
PCIe3.0 2x 100 Gb QSFP28 RoCE Fabric ports
Flash cards
1x 1/10 Gb copper Ethernet port (mgmt)
Storage Server XT 1x 16-core Intel Xeon 5218 96 GB 12x 14 TB None 1x ILOM Ethernet port
processors (2.3GHz) 7,200 RPM
disks
Eighth Rack Storage 2x 16-core Intel Xeon 5218 192 GB 6x 14 TB 2x 6.4 TB

Server HC processors (2.3GHz) 1.5 TB Persistent Memory 7,200 RPM NVMe
16 cores enabled disks PCIe3.0
Flash cards
1
All servers include redundant hot swappable fans and power supplies
2
Table includes individually purchasable servers only, Eighth Rack Database and EF Storage Servers also available in rack configuration shown below. HC = High Capacity, EF =
Extreme Flash, XT = Extended.
Exadata Rack Configurations1,2
RACK SIZE DATABASE SERVERS STORAGE SERVERS AND HIGH CAPACITY STORAGE EXTREME FLASH
AND CORES CORES SERVER CAPACITY (RAW) STORAGE SERVER
CAPACITY (RAW)
Eighth Rack3 2x servers, 48 cores 3x servers, 48 cores for SQL 252 TB disk, 38.4 TB Flash, 4.5 76.8 TB Flash, 4.5 TB
offload TB Persistent Memory Persistent Memory
Quarter Rack 2x servers, 96 cores 3x servers, 96 cores for SQL 504 TB disk, 76.8 TB Flash, 4.5 153.6 TB Flash, 4.5 TB
Half Rack4 4x servers, 192 cores 7x servers, 224 cores for SQL 1176 TB disk, 179.2 TB Flash, 358.4 TB Flash, 10.5 TB
offload 10.5 TB Persistent Memory Persistent Memory
Full Rack4 8x servers, 384 cores 14x servers, 448 cores for SQL 2,352 TB disk, 358.4 TB Flash, 21 or 716.8 TB Flash, 21 TB
+Database Servers Up to 19x servers5, 912 n/a n/a n/a

cores max per rack
+Storage Servers n/a Up to 18x servers5, 576 cores 3,024 TB disk, 460.8 TB Flash, 921.6 TB Flash, 27.6 TB
max per rack 27.6 TB Persistent Memory Persistent Memory
maximum per rack maximum per rack

1
Each rack is 42 RU (Rack Units) in height, has 2x redundant Power Distribution Units (PDUs), 2x 36-port 100 Gb/s RoCE switches and 1x 48-port Management Ethernet switch for
administration. Included Spare Parts Kit Contains:
• 1 x 6.4 TB NVMe PCI Flash card and 1 x 14 TB High Capacity disk, or
• 1 x 6.4 TB NVMe PCI Flash card
2
Elastic configurations allow adding database or storage servers to a quarter rack to achieve the exact ratio of compute to storage that the application needs. A full rack elastic
configuration cannot exceed 22 servers and 39 RU (Rack Units). Database Servers = 1 RU, Storage Servers = 2 RU
3
Eighth Rack is the minimum Exadata configuration. Eighth Rack database servers have one processor each with all cores enabled. Default memory per database server is 384 GB,
maximum memory supported per database server is 768GB. Eighth Rack EF storage servers have half the cores and Flash drives enabled. Eighth Rack HC storage servers have half
the cores enabled and half the disks and Flash cards removed. The optional NIC is not available for the Eighth Rack.
4
Half and Full rack configurations added as examples of elastic configurations previously available as static sizes.
5
Maximum number of database servers allowed in an elastic configuration is 19. Maximum number of storage servers allowed in an elastic configuration is 18.
Other Elastic Expansion Options
Multi-Rack Connection Connect any combination of up to 18 Exadata Database Machine racks or Exadata Storage Expansion Racks via the RoCE
Network Fabric. Larger configurations can be built with external RoCE switches. Connected racks must contain Exadata RoCE
hardware.
Eighth Rack Expansion Options Expand just compute or just storage or both, described as follows:
• Database Servers can be expanded by installing an additional 24 core CPU per server
• EF Storage Servers can be expanded by enabling 16 cores and installing 4 PCI Flash cards per server
• HC Storage Servers can be expanded by adding Eighth Rack High Capacity Storage Server
Exadata Capacity and Performance Metrics: Individual Servers
SERVER TYPE MAXIMUM SQL MAXIMUM SQL MAXIMUM SQL PERSISTENT PCI FLASH DISK DATA
FLASH READ IOPS1,3 WRITE IOPS4 MEMORY CAPACITY CAPACITY (RAW)
BANDWIDTH2 CAPACITY (RAW) 5 (RAW)5
Database Server n/a 1,500,000 980,000 n/a n/a 4.8 TB
Storage Server HC1 25 GB/s 1,500,000 470,000 1.5 TB 25.6 TB 168 TB
Storage Server EF1 40 GB/s 1,500,000 470,000 1.5 TB 51.2 TB n/a
Storage Server XT1 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 168 TB
Eighth Rack Storage 13 GB/s 750,000 235,000 1.5 TB 12.8 TB 84 TB

Server HC1
1
HC = High Capacity, EF = Extreme Flash, XT = Extended. PMEM = Persistent Memory. Actual system performance varies by application.
2
Bandwidth is peak physical scan bandwidth achieved running SQL, assuming no database compression. Effective user data bandwidth is higher when database compression is
used.
3
Based on 8K I/O requests running SQL. Note that the I/O size greatly affects Flash IOPS. Other products quote IOPS based on smaller I/Os that are not relevant for databases.
4
Based on 8K I/O requests running SQL. Flash write I/Os measured at the storage servers after ASM mirroring, which usually issues multiple storage I/Os to maintain redundancy.
5
Raw capacity is measured in standard disk drive terminology with 1 GB = 1 billion bytes.

Exadata Typical Rack Configurations: Flash Capacity and Performance Metrics (HC & EF)
FLASH METRICS MAXIMUM SQL FLASH MAXIMUM SQL PMEM MAXIMUM SQL FLASH PCI FLASH CAPACITY
BANDWIDTH2 READ IOPS1,3 WRITE IOPS4 (RAW)5
Full Rack HC1 350 GB/s 12,000,000 6,580,000 358.4TB
EF1 560 GB/s 12,000,000 6,580,000 716.8 TB
Half Rack HC 175 GB/s 6,000,000 3,290,000 179.2 TB
EF 280 GB/s 6,000,000 3,290,000 358.4 TB
Quarter Rack HC 75 GB/s 3,000,000 1,410,000 76.8 TB
EF 120 GB/s 3,000,000 1,410,000 153.6 TB
Eighth Rack HC 37.5 GB/s 1,500,000 705,000 38.4 TB
EF 60 GB/s 1,500,000 705,000 76.8 TB
1
EF = Extreme Flash; HC = High Capacity; PMEM = Persistent Memory
2
used.
3
Based on 8K IO requests running SQL. Note that the IO size greatly affects Flash IOPS. Others quote IOPS based on smaller IOs and are not relevant for databases.
4
Based on 8K IO requests running SQL. Flash write I/Os measured at the storage servers after ASM mirroring, which usually issues multiple storage IOs to maintain redundancy.
5
Raw capacity is measured in standard disk drive terminology with 1 GB = 1 billion bytes. Usable capacity is measured using normal powers of 2 space terminology with 1 TB = 1024
* 1024 * 1024 * 1024 bytes.
Exadata Typical Rack Configurations: Disk Capacity and Performance Metrics (HC)
DISK METRICS MAXIMUM SQL DISK BANDWIDTH1 MAXIMUM SQL DISK IOPS2 DATA CAPACITY (RAW)3
Full Rack 25 GB/s 36,000 2,352 TB
Half Rack 12.5 GB/s 18,000 1,176 TB
Quarter Rack 5.4 GB/s 7,800 504 TB
Eighth Rack 2.7 GB/s 3,900 252 TB
1
used.
2
Based on 8K IO requests running SQL. Note that the IO size greatly affects Flash IOPS. Others quote IOPS based on smaller IOs and are not relevant for databases.
3
Raw capacity is measured in standard disk drive terminology with 1 GB = 1 billion bytes. Usable capacity is measured using normal powers of 2 space terminology with 1 TB = 1024
* 1024 * 1024 * 1024 bytes.

Exadata Typical Rack Configurations: Combined Metrics (HC & EF)
DATA CAPACITY (USABLE) – NORMAL DATA CAPACITY (USABLE) – HIGH MAXIMUM DATA LOAD
COMBINED METRICS REDUNDANCY1 REDUNDANCY1 RATE2
Full Rack HC 953 TB 699 TB 35 TB/hour
EF 282 TB 206 TB 35 TB/hour
Half Rack HC 477 TB 349 TB 17.5 TB/hour
EF 141 TB 103 TB 17.5 TB/hour
Quarter Rack HC 191 TB 150 TB 7.5 TB/hour
Eighth Rack HC 95 TB 75 TB 3.8 TB/hour
1
Usable capacity is measured using normal powers of 2 space terminology with 1 TB = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 bytes. It is the actual space available to create a database after
taking into account space needed for ASM redundancy, recovering from a drive failure. Normal redundancy calculations reflect the use of Grid Infrastructure version 12.2.0.1 or later.
2
Load rates are typically limited by database server CPU, not I/O. Rates vary based on load method, indexes, data types, compression, and partitioning.
Exadata Database Machine Component Environmental Specifications
METRIC EXADATA EXADATA STORAGE EXADATA EXADATA EXADATA EIGHTH

DATABASE SERVER SERVER X8M-2 HIGH STORAGE SERVER STORAGE SERVER RACK STORAGE
X8M-2 PLUS CAPACITY (HC) X8M-2 EXTREME X8M-2 EXTENDED SERVER X8M-2 HIGH
NETWORK FABRIC PLUS NETWORK FLASH (EF) PLUS (XT) PLUS CAPACITY (HC) PLUS
FABRIC NETWORK FABRIC NETWORK FABRIC NETWORK FABRIC
Height 1.68 in. (42.66 mm) 3.42 in. (86.9 mm)
Width 17.19 in. (436.5 mm) 17.52 in. (445.0 mm)
Depth 29.02 in. (737 mm) 29.88 in. (759.0 mm)
Acoustic noise (operating) 7.7 B 8.2 B 8.2 B 8.2 B 8.2 B
Weight 45.6 lb (20.7 kg) 76.7 lb (34.8 kg) 60.6 lb (27.5 kg) 66.7 lb (30.2 kg) 67.5 lb (30.6 kg)
Maximum power usage 0.7 kW (0.7 kVA) 0.8 kW (0.8 kVA) 0.8 kW (0.8 kVA) 0.5 kW (0.5 kVA) 0.6 kW (0.6 kVA)
Typical power usage1 0.5 kW (0.5 kVA) 0.5 kW (0.6 kVA) 0.6 kW (0.6 kVA) 0.3 kW (0.3 kVA) 0.4 kW (0.4 kVA)
Cooling at maximum usage 2,409 BTU/hour 2,631 BTU/hour 2,730 BTU/hour 1,570 BTU/hour 1,947 BTU/hour
2,541 kJ/hour 2,775 kJ/hour 2,880 kJ/hour 1,656 kJ/hour 2,054 kJ/hour
Cooling at typical usage 1,686 BTU/hour 1,842 BTU/hour 1,911 BTU/hour 1,099 BTU/hour 1,363 BTU/hour
1,779 kJ/hour 1,943 kJ/hour 2,016 kJ/hour 1,159 kJ/hour 1,438 kJ/hour
Airflow at maximum usage2 112 CFM 122 CFM 126 CFM 73 CFM 90 CFM
Airflow at typical usage2 78 CFM 85 CFM 88 CFM 51 CFM 63 CFM

Operating temperature/humidity: 5 ºC to 32 ºC (41 ºF to 89.6 ºF), 10% to 90% relative humidity, non-condensing
Altitude Operating: Up to 3,048 m, max. ambient temperature is de-rated by 1° C per 300 m above 900 m
1
Typical power usage varies by application load. 2 Airflow must be front-to-back.
Exadata Database Machine Environmental Specifications
METRIC FULL RACK HALF RACK QUARTER RACK EIGHTH RACK
Height 78.74” (2000 mm)
Width 23.66” (601 mm)
Depth 47.13” (1197 mm)
Acoustic noise (operating) 9.5 B 9.3 B 9.1 B 9.1 B
Environmentals With High Capacity Disks
Weight 2016.70 lb (914.8 kg) 1296.4 lb (588.0 kg) 907.4 lb (411.6 kg) 879.9 lb (399.1 kg)
Maximum power usage 17.3 kW (17.6 kVA) 9.1 kW (9.3 kVA) 4.6 kW (4.7 kVA) 3.7 kW (3.8 kVA)
Typical power usage 1 12.1 kW (12.3 kVA) 6.4 kW (6.5 kVA) 3.2 kW (3.3 kVA) 2.6 kW (2.6 kVA)
Cooling at maximum usage 59,010 BTU/hour 30,958 BTU/hour 15,617 BTU/hour 12,602 BTU/hour
62,255 kJ/hour 32,661 kJ/hour 16,476 kJ/hour 13,295 kJ/hour
Cooling at typical usage 41,307 BTU/hour 21,671 BTU/hour 10,932 BTU/hour 8,821 BTU/hour
Airflow at maximum usage 2 2732 CFM 1433 CFM 723 CFM 583 CFM
Airflow at typical usage 2 1912 CFM 1003 CFM 506 CFM 408 CFM
Environmentals With Extreme Flash Drives
Weight 1791.3 lb (812.5 kg) 1183.7 lb (536.9 kg) 859.1 lb (389.7 kg) 854.0 lb (387.4 kg)
Maximum power usage 17.7 kW (18.1 kVA) 9.3 kW (9.5 kVA) 4.7 kW (4.8 kVA) 3.8 kW (3.9 kVA)
Typical power usage 1 12.4 kW (12.6 kVA) 6.5 kW (6.6 kVA) 3.3 kW (3.3 kVA) 2.6 kW (2.7 kVA)
Cooling at maximum usage 60,395 BTU/hour 31,651 BTU/hour 15,914 BTU/hour 12,903 BTU/hour
Cooling at typical usage 42,276 BTU/hour 22,156 BTU/hour 11,140 BTU/hour 9,032 BTU/hour
Airflow at maximum usage 2 2796 CFM 1465 CFM 737 CFM 597 CFM
Airflow at typical usage 2 1957 CFM 1026 CFM 516 CFM 418 CFM
Operating temperature/humidity: 5 ºC to 32 ºC (41 ºF to 89.6 ºF), 10% to 90% relative humidity, non-condensing. Altitude Operating: Up to 3,048 m, max. ambient temperature is de-
rated by 1° C per 300 m above 900 m
1
Typical power usage varies by application load. 2 Airflow must be front-to-back.

Exadata Database Machine X8M-2 Regulations and Certifications
Regulations 1,2,3 Product Safety: UL/CSA 60950-1, EN 60950-1, IEC 60950-1 CB

Scheme with all country differences
EMC
Emissions: FCC CFR 47 Part 15, ICES-003, EN55032,

EN61000-3-11, EN61000-3-12
Immunity: EN55024
Certifications 2,3 North America (NRTL), European Union (EU), International CB Scheme, HSE Exemption (India), BSMI
(Taiwan), CCC (PRC), EAC (EAEU including Russia), RCM (Australia), VCCI (Japan), Mexico, KC (Korea)
European Union Directives 3 2014/35/EU Low Voltage Directive, 2014/30/EU EMC Directive, 2011/65/EU RoHS Directive, 2012/19/EU
WEEE Directive
1
All standards and certifications referenced are to the latest official version at the time the data sheet was written. For additional detail, please contact your sales representative.
2
Other country regulations/certifications may apply.
3
In some cases, as applicable, regulatory and certification compliance were obtained for the shelf-level systems only.
Exadata Database Machine Support Services
• Hardware Warranty: 1 year with a 4 hr web/phone response during normal business hours (Mon-Fri 8AM-5PM), with 2 business day on-site response/Parts
Exchange
• Oracle Premier Support for Systems includes Oracle Linux support and 24x7 with 2 hour on-site hardware service response (subject to proximity to service
center)
• Oracle Premier Support for Operating Systems
• Oracle Customer Data and Device Retention
• System Installation Services
• Software Configuration Services
• Oracle Platinum Services
• Business Critical Service for Systems
• Oracle Exadata Start-Up Pack
• System Upgrade Support Services including hardware installation and software configuration
• Oracle Auto Service Request (ASR)
Optional Customer Supplied Ethernet Switch Installation in Exadata Database Machine X8M-2
Each Exadata Database Machine X8M-2 rack has 2U available at the top of the rack that can be used by customers to optionally install their own client network Ethernet
switches in the Exadata rack instead of in a separate rack. Some space, power, and cooling restrictions apply.
Key Features and Functionality
Exadata and Database Software Features - Analytics

• Unique Automatic Parallelization and Offload of Data Scans to storage
• Unique Filtering of Rows in Storage based on 'where' clause
• Unique Filtering of Rows in Storage based on columns selected
• Unique Storage Offload of JSON and XML Analytic Queries
• Unique Filtering of rows in Storage based on Join with other Table
• Unique Hybrid Columnar Compression
• Unique Storage Index Data Skipping
• Unique I/O Resource Management by User, Query, Service, DB, etc.
• Unique Automatic Transformation to Columnar Format in Flash Cache
• Unique Smart Flash Caching for Table Scans
• Unique Storage Offload of Index Fast Full Scans
• Unique Storage Offloads of Scans on Encrypted Data, with FIPS compliance

• Unique Storage offload for LOBs and CLOBs
• Unique Storage offload for min/max operations
• Unique Data Mining Offload to Storage
• Unique Reverse Offload to DB servers if Storage CPUs are Busy
• Unique Automatic Data Columnarization in Flash Cache
• Unique Automatic Conversion of Data to In-Memory Formats when Loading into Flash Cache
Exadata and Database Software Features - OLTP

• Unique Database Aware PCI Flash
• Unique Exadata Smart Flash Caching
• Unique Exadata Smart Flash Logging
• Unique Smart Write-back Flash Cache
• Unique I/O Prioritization by DB, User, or workload to ensure QOS
• Unique Exafusion Direct-to-Wire Protocol
• Unique Database Intelligent Network Resource Management
• Unique Exachk full-stack validation
• Unique Full-stack security scanning
• Unique Database scoped security
• Unique Cell-to-Cell Rebalance preserving Flash Cache and Storage Index
• Unique Full-Stack Secure Erase
• Unique Instant Data File Creation
• Unique Smart Fusion Block Transfer
• Unique Control of Flash Cache Size per Database
• Unique In-Memory OLTP Acceleration
• Unique Undo-Block Remote RDMA Read
• Unique Support for More Than 252 Pluggable Databases with Multitenant Option
Exadata and Database Software Features - High Availability

• Unique Instant Detection of Node or Cell Failure
• Unique In-Memory Fault Tolerance
• Unique Sub-second Failover of I/O on stuck disk or Flash
• Unique Offload backups to storage servers
• Unique Exadata Data Validation (extended H.A.R.D.)
• Unique Prioritize Recovery of Critical Database Files
• Unique Automatic Repair of Corrupt Disk Data By Reading Other Storage Servers
• Unique Avoidance of Read I/Os on Predictive failed disks
• Unique Confinement and power cycle of temporarily poor performing drives
• Unique Shutdown Prevention If Mirror Storage Server is Down
• Unique Detection and Disabling of Unreliable Network Links
• Unique Preservation of Storage Index on Rebalance
Manageability Features
• Oracle Embedded Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM)
• Oracle Enterprise Manager Exadata Plug-in
• Unique Active AWR includes storage stats for end to end monitoring
• IPv6 Support for Ethernet Connections
• Capacity on Demand
• Cell software transparent restart
• Flash and disk life cycle management alert
• Automatic Disk Scrub and Repair
• Trusted Partitions for Oracle Virtual Machine
• Automated VLAN Creation
• Oracle Exadata Deployment Assistant
• Separate Management Switch and Connectivity
• Exacli command line management from remote servers
• Cellcli command line management of Storage Servers

• DCLI distributed command line automation tool
Oracle Database Software (available separately):

• For database servers: Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Enterprise Edition, Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition Release 1 and 2, Oracle Database 18c
Enterprise Edition Release 1, and Oracle Database 19c. Oracle Database Options such as Oracle Real Application Clusters, Oracle Partitioning, Oracle
Multitenant, Oracle Active Data Guard. See the release specific documentation for feature support.
• For storage servers: Oracle Exadata System Software. Licenses are transferable from one system to another, or to a new system
Oracle Software (included):

• For database servers: Oracle Linux 7 Update 7 with the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 5. Zero-loss Zero-copy Datagram Protocol (ZDP) RoCEv2 protocol
used to communicate between the Exadata Storage Servers and the Oracle Database which is based on the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) OpenFabrics
Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
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The Oracle Exadata Database Machine is engineered to deliver

dramatically better performance, cost effectiveness, and availability for

ENGINEERED FOR FAST AND RELIABLE DEPLOYMENT

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• Oracle Database Exadata Cloud

NEW WITH EXADATA X8M: GROUNDBREAKING RDMA BASED NETWORK FABRIC

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Figure 2. Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory modules

EXTREME FLASH STORAGE SERVER: RECORD-BREAKING I/O PERFORMANCE

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“Oracle Exadata Database

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EXTENDED CAPACITY STORAGE SERVER: MUCH LOWER COST EXADATA STORAGE

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OPTIMIZING STORAGE USE AND I/O THROUGH COMPRESSION

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FAULT TOLERANT AND FASTEST DATABASE IN-MEMORY MACHINE FOR ANALYTICS

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Exadata is designed and delivered as an integrated whole, instead of a collection of components. In

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IDEAL PLATFORM FOR DATABASE AS A SERVICE

FAST DEPLOYMENT OF DEVELOPMENT AND TEST DATABASES WITH EXADATA

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COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM MANAGEMENT

HIGHEST LEVEL OF SERVICE

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DRAMATICALLY LOWER COSTS

CAPACITY-ON-DEMAND SOFTWARE LICENSING

EXADATA IN ORACLE PUBLIC CLOUD

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Exadata Cloud Service is an ideal fit for:

EXADATA BUSINESS BENEFITS

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• Real-time business data analysis

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SERVER TYPE CPU MEMORY DISK FLASH NETWORK

2x 100 Gb QSFP28 RoCE Fabric ports

Storage Server HC 2x 16-core Intel Xeon 5218 192 GB 12x 14 TB 4x 6.4 TB

Storage Server EF 192 GB None 8x 6.4 TB

Eighth Rack Storage 2x 16-core Intel Xeon 5218 192 GB 6x 14 TB 2x 6.4 TB

Exadata Rack Configurations1,2

+Database Servers Up to 19x servers5, 912 n/a n/a n/a

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Other Elastic Expansion Options

Exadata Capacity and Performance Metrics: Individual Servers

Database Server n/a 1,500,000 980,000 n/a n/a 4.8 TB

Storage Server HC1 25 GB/s 1,500,000 470,000 1.5 TB 25.6 TB 168 TB

Storage Server EF1 40 GB/s 1,500,000 470,000 1.5 TB 51.2 TB n/a

Storage Server XT1 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 168 TB

Eighth Rack Storage 13 GB/s 750,000 235,000 1.5 TB 12.8 TB 84 TB

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Full Rack HC1 350 GB/s 12,000,000 6,580,000 358.4TB

EF1 560 GB/s 12,000,000 6,580,000 716.8 TB

Half Rack HC 175 GB/s 6,000,000 3,290,000 179.2 TB

EF 280 GB/s 6,000,000 3,290,000 358.4 TB

Quarter Rack HC 75 GB/s 3,000,000 1,410,000 76.8 TB