ORACLE DATA SHEET

ORACLE EXADATA DATABASE

MACHINE SL6
All the Benefits of Exadata Combined with Ultra-Fast SPARC Processors
running Linux

The Oracle Exadata Database Machine is engineered to deliver dramatically

better performance, cost effectiveness, and availability for Oracle databases.
Exadata features a modern cloud-based architecture with scale-out high-
performance database servers, scale-out intelligent storage servers with
state-of-the-art PCI flash, and an ultra-fast InfiniBand internal fabric that
connects all servers and storage. Unique software algorithms in Exadata
implement database intelligence in storage, compute, and InfiniBand
networking to deliver higher performance and capacity at lower costs than
other platforms. Exadata runs all types of database workloads including
Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), Data Warehousing (DW), In-Memory
Analytics as well as consolidation of mixed workloads. Simple and fast to
implement, the Exadata Database Machine powers and protects your most
important databases.

Since the 2008 debut of Exadata, Intel x86 processors have powered
Exadata database servers. The Exadata Database Machine SL6 is nearly
identical to the Intel based Exadata, except it uses Oracle SPARC T7-2
database servers based on the SPARC M7 processor. SPARC M7 is the
worlds most advanced processor to run Oracle databases, and the first to
use a revolutionary technology from Oracle referred to as Software in
Silicon. Software in Silicon technology is a breakthrough in microprocessor
and server design, enabling databases to run faster and with unprecedented
security and reliability. Even though the database servers are based on
SPARC processors, Exadata SL6 runs the exact same Linux Operating
System as x86-based Exadata systems.

Software in Silicon: Breakthrough Performance and Security

Software in Silicon is comprised of three very unique technology offerings: SQL in
Silicon, Capacity in Silicon and Security in Silicon.

The SPARC M7 processor incorporates 32 on-chip Data Analytics Accelerator (DAX)

engines that are specifically designed to speed up analytic queries. The accelerators
offload in-memory query processing and perform real-time data decompression;
capabilities that are also referred to as SQL in Silicon and Capacity in Silicon,
respectively. The DAX SQL in Silicon processors accelerate analytic queries by
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independently searching and filtering columns of data while the normal processor cores
KEY FEATURES
Up to 640 CPU cores and 10TB memory per
run other functions. Using Capacity in Silicon processors perform data decompression
rack for database processing at full memory speeds, allowing large volumes of data to be kept in compressed format
Up to 320 CPU cores per rack dedicated to
without incurring processing overhead.
SQL processing in storage
From 2 to 10 Database Servers per rack The Security in Silicon functions of SPARC M7 continuously perform validity checks
From 3 to 16 Storage Servers per rack
on every memory reference made by the processor without incurring performance
Up to 410 TB of flash capacity (raw) per rack
overhead. Security in Silicon helps detect buffer overflow attacks made by malicious
Up to 1.54 PB of disk capacity (raw) per rack
Hybrid Columnar Compression often delivers software, and enable applications such as the Oracle Database to identify and prevent
10X-15X compression ratios erroneous memory accesses. The Security in Silicon technologies also encompass the
40 Gb/second (QDR) InfiniBand Network
cryptographic instruction accelerators, which are integrated into each processor core of
Complete redundancy for high availability
the SPARC M7 processor. These accelerators enable high-speed encryption for more
than a dozen industry-standard ciphers.

KEY BENEFITS Engineered System for Fast and Reliable Deployment

Pre-configured, pre-tested system optimized
for all database applications The Exadata Database Machine is an easy to deploy system that includes all the
Uncompressed I/O bandwidth of up to 280 hardware needed for running Oracle Databases. The database servers, storage
GB/second per full rack equivalent, from SQL servers and network are pre-configured, pre-tuned and pre-tested by Oracle experts,
Ability to perform up to 6.9M 8K database read
eliminating weeks or months of effort typically required to deploy a mission critical high
I/O operations, or 6.3M 8K flash write I/O
performance system. Extensive end-to-end testing ensures all components including
operations per second per full rack equivalent
Easily add compute or storage servers to meet database software, OS, firmware, drivers, etc. work seamlessly together and there are
the needs of any size application no performance bottlenecks or single points of failure that can affect the complete
Scale by connecting multiple Exadata system.
Database Machine SL6 racks or Exadata
Storage Expansion Racks. Up to 18 racks can Because all Exadata Database Machines are identically configured, customers benefit
be connected by simply adding InfiniBand from the experience of thousands of other users that have deployed the Exadata
cables and using internal switches. Larger
Database Machine for their mission critical applications including most of the top
configurations can be built with external
InfiniBand switches Banks, Telecoms, and Retailers in the world. Customer machines are also identical to
the machines Oracle Support uses for problem identification and resolution, the
machines Oracle Engineering uses for development and testing of Oracle Database,
and the machines Oracle uses to implement its own SaaS and PaaS public cloud.
Hence, Exadata is the most thoroughly tested and tuned platform for running
Oracle Database, and is also the most supportable platform.

The Oracle Exadata Database Machine runs the standard Oracle Database. Therefore,
any application that uses the Oracle Database today can be easily and
seamlessly migrated to use the Exadata Database Machine with no changes to
the application. Databases can also be easily migrated off of Exadata eliminating any
fear of lock-in.

Customers thinking of deploying databases on the Public Cloud, now or in the future,
can be confident that Exadata provides 100% compatibility between on-premises
and public cloud enabling easy migration to the public cloud and simple hybrid cloud
deployments.

Extreme System Scalability and Growth with Elastic

Configurations
The Exadata Database Machine uses a scale-out architecture for both database
servers and storage servers. As an Exadata Database Machine grows, database
CPUs, storage, and networking can be added in a balanced fashion ensuring scalability

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without bottlenecks.
RELATED PRODUCTS
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Service The scale-out architecture accommodates any size workload and allows seamless
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine expansion from small to extremely large configurations while avoiding performance
Oracle Exadata Database Machine X6-2 bottlenecks and single points of failure.
Oracle Exadata Database Server X6-2 Plus
InfiniBand Infrastructure A high-bandwidth low-latency 40 Gb/second InfiniBand network connects all the
Oracle Exadata Storage Expansion Rack X6-2 components inside an Exadata Database Machine. Specialized database networking
Oracle Exadata Storage Server X6-2 Plus protocols run over the InfiniBand network and provide much lower latency and higher
InfiniBand Infrastructure bandwidth communication than is possible using generic communication protocols.
Oracle SuperCluster
This enables both faster response time for OLTP operations, and higher throughput for
Oracle Database 12c
analytic workloads. External connectivity to the Exadata Database Machine is provided
Real Application Clusters
using standard 10 Gigabit Ethernet.
Partitioning
Multitenant Exadata Database Machine is the most versatile database platform. The Exadata
Database In-Memory SL6 Database Machine uses powerful database servers, each with two 32-core
Advanced Compression
SPARC M7 processors and 256 GB of memory (expandable up to 1TB). Exadata also
Advanced Security
uses scale-out, intelligent storage servers that appear in two configurations High
Active Data Guard
Capacity (HC) or Extreme Flash (EF). HC Storage Servers have four PCI Flash cards
GoldenGate
each with 3.2 TB (raw) Exadata Smart Flash Cache and twelve 8 TB 7,200 RPM disks.
Real Application Testing
EF Storage Servers have an all-Flash configuration with eight PCI Flash drives, each
OLAP
Advanced Analytics
with 3.2 TB (raw) storage capacity. The starting configuration of an Exadata Database
Business Intelligence Machine consists of two database servers and three storage servers, which can be
Enterprise Manager elastically expanded by adding more database and/or storage severs as requirements
Oracle Linux grow. Elastic configurations provide an extremely flexible and efficient mechanism to
expand computing power and/or storage capacity to meet any business need.

RELATED SERVICES In addition to upgrading within a rack, multiple racks can be connected using the
The following services are available from Oracle: integrated InfiniBand fabric to form even larger configurations. For example, a
Advanced Customer Services
system composed of four racks is simply four times as powerful as a single rack system
Oracle Premier Support for Systems
- providing quadruple the I/O throughput, quadruple the storage capacity, and
Oracle Platinum Services
quadruple the processing power. It can be configured as a large single system or
Consulting Services
logically partitioned for consolidation of multiple databases. Scaling out is easy with
Oracle University courses
Exadata Database Machine. Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) can dynamically
add more processing power, and Automatic Storage Management (ASM) can
dynamically add more storage capacity.

When even larger storage capacity is required, the Oracle Exadata Storage
Expansion Rack is available. The Exadata Storage Expansion Rack enables you to
grow the storage capacity and bandwidth of any Exadata Database Machine. It is
designed for database deployments that require very large amounts of data, including
historical or archive data, backups, documents, images, XML, JSON and LOBs. The
storage expansion rack connects to the Exadata Database Machine using the
integrated InfiniBand fabric and is extremely simple to configure, as there are no LUNs
I would recommend Exadata as a platform or mount points. Storage is configured and added to a database online with a few
for performance, reliability and ease of
simple commands. The starting configuration of the Oracle Exadata Storage Expansion
support. Those three things mean very
much to me in my daily life. Rack consists of four storage servers and can be further expanded by adding additional
- Richard Ewald storage servers.
Senior Technical Architect
Sprint Exadata Database Machines protect your investment by allowing newer generation
servers and storage to be deployed seamlessly into existing Exadata Database
Machines. Similarly, new software releases are compatible with most previous

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generation Exadata Database Machines.

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 3.2 TB state-of-the-art Flash Accelerator F320 PCI flash
drives, offering 25.6TB raw flash capacity per EF Storage Server. Exadata SL6 uses
state-of-the-art 3D V-NAND flash technology for improved speed, power efficiency, and
endurance compared to previous generations of Flash. The enterprise grade flash used
in Exadata SL6 have an expected endurance of 8 years or more for typical database
workloads. This is very different from consumer grade flash that can potentially
Oracle Exadata enabled seamless and experience performance degradations or fail unexpectedly after a few years of usage.
rapid migration of our cloud-based, In addition, Exadata delivers ultra-high performance by placing the flash devices
integrated business applications, required directly on the high speed PCI bus rather than behind slow disk controllers and
no major modifications, and helped us
reduce costs. With Oracle, we dramatically directors. Finally, Exadata flash uses the latest NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express)
improved our batch processing speed by flash protocol to achieve extremely low latency and CPU overhead.
241x and overall system performance by 3x,
enabling us to improve operating efficiency Flash performance is often limited and bottlenecked by traditional storage architecture.
for our daily, critical tasks and to enhance In contrast, Exadata uses a combination of scale-out storage, InfiniBand networking,
customer service.
database offload, and PCI flash to deliver extremely high performance rates from flash.
- Kyoji Kato
Executive Officer and GM An elastic configuration of Exadata Database Machine SL6, with 8 database servers
Daiwa House and 14 Extreme Flash storage servers, can achieve up to 280 GB per second of
analytic scan bandwidth from SQL, and 0.25 ms Database I/O latency at 2.4
Million Flash IOPS when running database workloads. In addition this configuration
can achieve up to 6.9 Million random 8K database read and 6.3 Million random 8K
flash write I/O operations per second (IOPS), which is an industry record for
database workloads. This performance scales as more racks are added.

This performance is orders of magnitude faster than traditional storage array

architectures, and is also much faster than current all-flash storage arrays. It is
important to note that these are real-world end-to-end performance figures measured
running SQL workloads with realistic I/O sizes inside a single rack Exadata system.
They are not component-level measurements based on low-level I/O tools.

Oracle Exadata Database Machine is

helping to transform our business. Our SAP
environment, one of the worlds largest, can
now support twice as much throughput with
improved stability.
- Milt Simonds
Director, Enterprise Platform Delivery
AmerisourceBergen Corporation

Fig 1: Flash Accelerator F320 PCIe Card

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High Capacity Storage Server: Tiered Disk and Flash Deliver

Cost of Disk with Performance of Flash
The second Exadata storage option is the Exadata X6-2 High Capacity (HC) Storage
Server. This server includes twelve 8 TB SAS disk drives with 96 TB total raw disk
capacity. It also has four Flash Accelerator F320 NVMe PCIe cards with a total raw
capacity of 12.8 TB of flash memory. These flash cards are also based on innovative
3D V-NAND technology. Exadata flash in a High Capacity 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 since caching provides flash level
performance for much more data than fits directly into flash.
We chose Oracle Exadata because it
offered a complete solution ... weve created
Exadata Smart Flash Cache automatically caches frequently accessed data while
daily financial reports 4x faster and liquidity
risk reports 7x faster to consistently meet keeping infrequently accessed data on disk. This provides the performance of flash
our service-level agreement, improved with the capacity and low cost of disk. The Exadata Smart Flash Cache understands
credit risk management, and reduced our database workloads and knows when to avoid caching data that the database will
data center footprint.
- Vaibhav Samant rarely access or is too big to fit in the cache. For example, Exadata doesnt cache I/Os
Senior Vice President, IT caused by backups, table scans, or temporary results that will be quickly deleted. In
HDFC Bank Ltd. 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. An elastic configuration of Exadata Database Machine SL6, with 8 database
servers and 14 High Capacity storage servers can achieve up to 252 GB per second
of analytic scan bandwidth from SQL, and up to 6.6 Million random 8K read I/O
operations per second (IOPS) from SQL, and 0.25 ms I/O latency at 2 Million flash
IOPS when running database workloads. This performance scales as more racks are
added.

Exadatas Smart Flash Cache is designed to deliver flash-level I/O rates and response
times for data that is many times larger than the physical flash capacity in the machine
by moving active data into flash, while leaving cold data on disk. It is common for hit
rates in the Exadata Smart Flash Cache to be over 90%, or even 98% in real-world
database workloads even though flash capacity is more than 7 times smaller than disk
None of the reports takes more than 10 capacity. Such high flash cache hit rates mean that Exadata Smart Flash Cache
minutes. It was taking 3-4 hours before, now
it completes in 3 minutes. It sounds like un- provides an effective flash capacity that is many times larger than the physical flash.
real but it is real. For example, an elastic configuration of Exadata Database Machine SL6 with 8
- Finance User database servers and 14 High Capacity Storage Servers often has an effective flash
Turkcell
capacity equal to the usable disk capacity of 508 TB.

The Exadata Smart Flash cache also caches database block writes using Exadata
Write Back Flash Cache technology. Write caching eliminates disk bottlenecks in large
scale OLTP and batch workloads. The flash write capacity of an elastic configuration of
Exadata Database Machine SL6 with 8 database servers and 14 High Capacity
Storage Servers exceeds 5.74 Million 8K write I/Os per second. The Exadata write
cache is transparent, persistent, and fully redundant. The I/O performance of the
Exadata Smart Flash Cache is comparable to dozens of enterprise disk arrays with
thousands of disk drives.

The automatic data tiering between RAM, flash and disk implemented in Exadata
provides tremendous advantages over other flash-based solutions. Many storage
vendors have recognized that the architecture of their traditional storage arrays
inherently bottlenecks the performance of flash and therefore have developed new
flash-only arrays. These flash-only arrays deliver higher performance than traditional

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arrays but give up the cost advantages of smart tiering of data between disk and flash.
Therefore the overall size of data that benefits from flash is limited to the size of
expensive flash. These flash arrays also do not benefit from any of Exadatas unique
storage optimization technologies. Data deduplication provided by some flash arrays is
very effective for VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) environments but is ineffective 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
The heart and soul of our stack right now is Exadata's integrated and optimized architecture with full InfiniBand based scale-out,
Oracle Exadata Database Machine. With fast PCI flash, offload of data intensive operations to storage, and algorithms that are
Oracle Exadata, weve been able to reduce specifically optimized for databases.
queries from days to minutes, and those
that used to take minutes to seconds.
- Chris Wones Accelerating Database Processing with Smart System
Enterprise Architect Software
dunnhumby
As data volumes grow exponentially, conventional storage arrays struggle to quickly
transfer data from disk and flash to database servers at a rate that keeps the CPUs
busy. Modern servers with dozens of CPU cores can consume data at many tens to
hundreds of gigabytes a second. This is far faster than conventional storage arrays can
deliver data through their storage controllers and the storage network.

The technology that enables Exadatas unparalleled performance without any of the
bottlenecks of traditional storage arrays is Exadata Storage Server Software. This
software powers the Exadata storage servers, providing a highly efficient database-
optimized storage infrastructure. Each Exadata Storage Server has two 10-core x86
processors that are used to offload database processing. A rack of Exadata Database
Machine SL6 can have a total of up to 320 processor cores in the storage servers that
can be used to offload the database servers. The CPUs in the storage servers do not
replace database CPUs. Instead they accelerate data intensive workloads similar to
how graphics cards accelerate image intensive workloads.

One of the many unique features of Exadata Storage Server software is Smart Scan
[With Exadata] We can more quickly
process 65 billion daily transactions for data technology, which offloads data intensive SQL operations from the database
charging, while providing real-time servers directly into the storage servers. By pushing SQL processing to the storage
information for customer inquiries,
servers, data filtering and processing occur immediately and in parallel across all
increasing customer satisfaction, and
reducing costs. storage servers, as data is read from disk and flash. Only the rows and columns that
- Jin Hyung Lee are directly relevant to a query are sent to the database servers.
ICT Team Manager, Networking
Engineering For example, if a query is executed to identify the customers who placed sales orders
SK Telecom 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 names. The result is
that the data transferred to the database servers is reduced by orders of magnitude.
This greatly accelerates query execution, eliminates bottlenecks, and significantly
reduces the CPU usage of the database servers.

Storage Index is another powerful capability of Oracle Exadata Storage Server

software that helps avoid unnecessary I/O operations and improves overall
performance. The storage index, maintained in-memory, tracks summary information
for table columns contained in a storage region on that storage server. When a query
specifies a WHERE clause, Exadata Storage Server software examines the storage

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index using a bloom filter to determine if rows with the specified column value might
exist in a region of disk on the storage server. If the column value doesnt exist in the
bloom filter, then scan I/O in that region for that query is avoided. Storage Indexes
make many SQL operations run dramatically faster because large numbers of I/O
operations are automatically replaced by a few in-memory lookups.

Besides the intrinsic capabilities of Exadata Storage Server software, the combination
of Oracle Database software, Exadata Storage Server software and Exadata
Exadata is the heart of the booking engine,
and we cannot operate as a business, we infrastructure enables several additional capabilities that offer unparalleled
cannot sell tickets without it. performance levels for todays complex enterprise databases. For example, Exafusion
- James Callaghan
Direct-to-Wire Protocol allows database processes to read and send Oracle Real
Chief Technologist
Westjet Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) messages directly over the InfiniBand network,
bypassing the OS kernel and networking software overhead. This improves the
response time and scalability of Oracle RAC configurations on Oracle Exadata
Database Machine.

The Smart Fusion Block Transfer capability improves performance of a RAC

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. Based on internal tests, it has been observed that Smart
Block Transfer increases throughput (about 40% higher) and decreases response
times (about 33% less) for communication intensive workloads.

To further accelerate OLTP workloads, the Exadata Smart Flash Cache implements a
special algorithm to ensure low latency of database log writes called Exadata Smart
Flash Logging. The time to commit user transactions or perform critical updates is
very sensitive to the latency of log writes. Smart Flash Logging takes advantage of the
flash memory in Exadata storage combined with the high speed RAM memory in the
Exadata disk controllers to reduce the average latency of log writes and avoid the
latency spikes that occur in other flash solutions. The Exadata Smart Flash Logging
algorithms are unique to Exadata.

Optimizing Storage Use and I/O Through Compression

Exadata delivers an amazing 20x
compression for our Data Warehouse. The Exadata Storage Server provides a very advanced compression capability called
- Jonathan Walsh Hybrid Columnar Compression (HCC) that enables dramatic reductions in
Head of BI & DW
Morrisons, Plc. storage for large databases. Hybrid Columnar Compression technology is an
innovative method of organizing data within a database table. As the name implies, this
technology utilizes 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.

With Hybrid Columnar Compression, Exadata enables the highest levels of data
compression possible with Oracle databases, and provides tremendous cost-savings
and performance improvements due to reduced I/O, especially for analytic workloads.
Storage savings is data dependent and often ranges from 5x to 20x. Average storage
savings is an industry leading 10x. On conventional systems, enabling high data
compression has the drawback of reducing performance by consuming CPU for
decompression. Because the Exadata Database Machine is able to offload
decompression overhead into large numbers of processors in Exadata storage, and in

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addition there is reduced I/O because of the high compression achieved, most analytic
workloads run faster using Hybrid Columnar Compression than they do without it.
Hybrid Columnar Compression delivers the compression and analytic performance
benefits of columnar storage while avoiding the dramatic slowdown that columnar-only
data stores experience for drilldown operations that often involve single row access.

Two modes of Hybrid Columnar Compression are available. Warehouse compression

mode is suitable for read intensive workloads such as Data Warehouses and provides
large storage savings while providing 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.

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 12c 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 which benefits from pure columnar access, 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

Exadata is the ideal platform for running Oracle Database In-Memory. Oracle Database
In-Memory on Exadata does not require all data to reside in memory. Data can be
stored across multiple tiers of storage, with the hottest data in memory providing
extremely high query performance, active data on flash providing very high I/O
throughput, and less active or older data on disk at a very low cost. A single query
can access data from all three tiers: memory, flash and disk, completely
transparently. This allows Exadata to run faster, support higher capacities and deliver
lower costs than competing products.

In-memory databases leverage vector instructions built into processors to process large
amounts of data using relatively few instructions. But vector processing instructions in
general purpose processors such as x86 processors were designed for graphic
operations, not for database processing. SPARC M7 with its unique SQL in Silicon
technology has specialized Database Accelerators (DAX) that are engineered for in-
memory database processing. The 32 DAX engines on each M7 chip are like 32
additional processor cores that accelerate analytic scanning and filtering of in-memory
data for free.

Though most in-memory databases leverage dictionary based logical compression,

they are not able to leverage bit level compression as decompressing bit-compressed
data in software can drastically slow down database processing. With Capacity in

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Silicon technology the SPARC M7 processor overcomes this conventional

decompression challenge by implementing decompression algorithms directly in the
microprocessor. This effectively doubles the in-memory database capacity without
incurring any performance penalty.

Exadata implements Oracle Database In-Memory fault tolerance. In-memory fault

tolerance is unique to Oracle Engineered Systems. 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 business SLAs. However, on Exadata, in-memory fault-tolerance can eliminate
this slowdown by duplicating any subset of the in-memory data store across the
clustered database servers. If a database server fails, queries will transparently access
the duplicate copy of data on a surviving database server and processing will continue
without interruption.

Enterprise-Class Security with Extreme Performance

Exadata Database Machine is the world's most secure database machine. Building on
the high security capabilities in the Oracle Database, Exadata moves decryption
processing from database server software into the Exadata Storage Server
hardware. Exadata storage leverages hardware decryption and compression together
to provide the highest performance secure databases. Encryption occurs after the
data is compressed so that the cost of decryption is decreased by the degree of
compression. By leveraging both technologies, Exadata is able to query fully
encrypted and compressed databases with minimal overhead at hundreds of gigabytes
of user data per second. Security in Silicon further provides the capability of detecting
and preventing invalid operations to application data, through hardware monitoring of
software access to memory. This can stop malware from exploiting software
vulnerabilities, such as buffer overflows. The hardware approach of Security in Silicon
is much faster than traditional software-based detection tools.

The Exadata system is designed and delivered as an integrated whole, and not a
collection of components. In traditional database deployments, the customer takes on
all the integration tasks for the system 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. Additionally, Exadata systems use minimal Linux
distributions to ensure that just the RPMs needed to run Oracle Database are installed
and enabled. With this approach, system security is stronger than default installations
and common security vulnerabilities are avoided.

Exadata security has been probed and evaluated by hundreds of leading banks,
telcoms, and government organizations worldwide. The security findings of all these
evaluations have been incorporated into the Exadata standard configuration, making it
a highly secure database platform.

Mission Critical High Availability

The Exadata Database Machine is engineered to provide the highest levels of
availability. All types of failures are protected against including simple failures such

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as disk, server, or network, as well as complex site failures and human errors. Each
Exadata Database Machine has completely redundant hardware, including
redundant InfiniBand networking, redundant Power Distribution Units (PDU), redundant
power supplies, and redundant database and storage servers. Oracle RAC protects
against database server failure. Oracle ASM provides data mirroring to protect against
disk or storage server failures. Oracle RMAN provides extremely fast and efficient
backups to disk or tape. Oracles Flashback technology allows backing out user errors
at the database, table or even row level. Using Oracle Data Guard, a second Exadata
Database Machine can be configured in a Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA)
configuration to transparently maintain a real-time copy of the database at a remote site
and provide full protection against primary database failures and site disasters.
I dont get the calls in the middle of the
night anymore that we have a system down. Exadata in an MAA configuration is recognized by the analyst firm IDC as a system that
Exadata is taken as always being available.
delivers at least 5-nines availability and is categorized in the IDC AL4 fault-tolerant
- James Callaghan 1
Chief Technologist market segment, along with HP Integrity NonStop and IBM z Systems .
Westjet
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 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 leverages InfiniBand
integration to very quickly determine that the suspect server is not reachable through
any network path and can immediately initiate eviction of the failed server from the
cluster. This entire operation can be completed in less than 2 seconds, leading to
virtual elimination of application brownout conditions.

Disk and flash devices occasionally exhibit very long latency IO operations due to
internal recovery of failed sectors, internal firmware reboots, or wear leveling. These
long IO operations can cause stalls in mission critical OLTP databases. With Exadata
I/O Latency Capping, Oracle Exadata Storage Server software automatically redirects
read I/O operations to an ASM-mirrored copy of the data when the latency of a read I/O
is much longer than expected. Similarly, it automatically redirects high latency write I/O
operations to a healthy flash device, eliminating write outliers. If disks do fail, ASM
performs a rebalance operation for the data that was resident on the disk. Exadata
Storage Server software takes rebalance one step further by preserving the flash cache
population and storage indexes when moving 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.

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.
Exadatas Mission Critical 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

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

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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 sequential and random access patterns.
Exadatas ability to run any type or mix of database workloads with industry
leading scalability and performance makes it an ideal consolidation platform
By consolidating 350 database servers and whether for multi-database workloads, or for pluggable databases with Oracle
storage systems onto Oracle Exadata, we Multitenant in Oracle Database 12c.
gained a high-performance, reliable, and
scalable mobile billing platform, enabling us Multi-database environments create an inherent risk that one database will consume
to calculate billings data 10x faster, and
too many resources and therefore impact the quality of service of other databases. The
halve maintenance costs.
- Tomoki Shimamura Exadata Database Machine provides unique end-to-end prioritization from the
Senior Manager Billing Systems Group application to database CPUs, network, and storage. Priorities and resource limits can
NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
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 implements unique 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
By integrating 20 legacy database servers
multiple databases are deployed on one Exadata rack, as is typical in a consolidated
for our investment trust sales system into
four Oracle Exadata Database Machines, private cloud.
we can provide information to customers
136x faster, enhance our competitive Exadata also implements unique database network resource management to ensure
advantage, and support transaction growth that network intensive workloads such as reporting, batch, and backups dont stall
for the next 10 years at lower costs. response time sensitive interactive workloads. Latency sensitive network operations
- Tomoshiro Takemoto
such as RAC Cache Fusion communication and log file writes are automatically moved
Senior Managing Director
Cloud Computing Service Division to the head of the message queue in server and storage network cards as well as
Nomura Research Institute Ltd. InfiniBand network switches, bypassing any non-latency sensitive messages. Latency
critical messages even jump ahead of non-latency critical messages that have already
been partially sent across the network, ensuring low response times even in the
presence of large network DMA (Direct Memory Access) operations.

Fast Deployment of Development and Test Databases with

Exadata Snapshots
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

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valuable storage resources. Backups of snapshots on Exadata are also space efficient
as only the changed information is backed up.

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: The latest version of Enterprise Manager, Oracle Enterprise
Manager 13c, supports a single pane of glass view of all the hardware and software
components such as database servers, storage servers, InfiniBand 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 Managers powerful compliance
With Oracle Platinum Services, we framework, provides functionality for system administrators to automate the
achieved a 40% increase in operational assessment of Engineered Systems for known configuration problems and best
efficiency - virtually eliminating the need for
practices. Administrators can leverage the Consistency Check functionality to check
dedicated resources to perform updates,
for deviations in configuration across the racks or among the database servers of a
monitor systems, and resolve incidents.
- Roland Schiller rack.
Architect Exadatas 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

Oracles 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.

Weve seen system performance increase IT Agility

4x and the total cost of storage ownership
fall by 30%, even as our data volumes have Exadata is a complete system for running databases including storage, servers, and
surged.
internal networks. Management of a traditional database system is typically spread
- Holger Haun
Managing Director across the management teams of each of the components such as the database team,
IDS GmbH Analysis and Reporting the storage team, and the system administration team. In contrast, an Exadata system
Service is typically managed by a unified Database Machine Administration 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

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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.

On an annual basis Exadata provides at

least half a million dollars in savings in Dramatically Lower Costs
operating costs.
- James Callaghan Because of the extreme performance, high storage capacity, and unique compression
Chief Technologist capabilities delivered by the Exadata Database Machine, workloads that would require
Westjet 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 1.5 Petabytes while raw flash storage can
be up to 409.6 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,
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 Oracles 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 SL6 database server has industry leading compute capacity with two 32-core
SPARC M7 processors (64 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 per server 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. The SPARC M7 Database
Acceleration (DAX) engines are always enabled and incur no software charges.

Exadata Business Benefits

Beyond the operational benefits of extreme performance, availability, and security, and
deployment flexibilities across on-premises and Cloud, Exadata also directly benefits

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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. Exadatas 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.

Exadatas extreme performance and 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.

Exadatas 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. The Exadata SL6
features industry leading SPARC M7 processors with unique Software in Silicon
capabilities making SL6 the fastest and most secure Exadata Database Machine ever.

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EXADATA SERVER HARDWARE
Server Type CPU Memory Disk Flash Network
Database Server 2x 32-core SPARC M7 256 GB 6x 600 GB None
processors (default) to 10,000 RPM disks 3x 1/10 Gb copper Ethernet ports (client)
1 TB(max) (Hot-Swappable) 1x 1/10 Gb copper Ethernet port (mgmt)
Expandable to 8 2x 10 Gb optical Ethernet ports (client)
4x QDR (40 Gb) InfiniBand ports
1x ILOM Ethernet port

Storage Server HC 128 GB 12x 8 TB 7,200 RPM 4x 3.2 TB

disks NVMe PCIe 3.0 flash
2x 10-core Xeon E5- cards 2x QDR (40 Gb) InfiniBand ports
Storage Server EF 2630 v4 processors 128 GB None 8x 3.2 TB 1x ILOM Ethernet port
NVMe PCIe 3.0 flash
drives
1
All servers include redundant hot swappable fans and power supplies

2
EXADATA TYPICAL RACK CONFIGURATIONS
Rack Size Database Servers and Cores Storage Servers and Cores HC Storage Capacity (raw) EF Storage Capacity (raw)
3
Eighth Rack 2x servers, 64 cores 3x servers, 30 cores for SQL 144 TB disk, 19.2 TB flash 38.4 TB flash
offload or
Quarter Rack 2x servers, 128 cores 3x servers, 60 cores for SQL 288 TB disk, 38.4 TB flash 76.8 TB flash
offload
2
Each rack is 42 RU (Rack Units) in height, has 2x redundant Power Distribution Units (PDUs), 2x 36-port QDR (40 Gb/s) InfiniBand switches and 1x 48-port Cisco
Ethernet switch for administration. Included Spare Parts Kit Contains:
1 x 3.2 TB NVMe PCI Flash card and 1 x 8 TB High Capacity disk, or
1 x 3.2 TB NVMe PCI flash drive
3
Eighth Rack is the minimum Exadata configuration. Eighth Rack compute servers have half the cores enabled. 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.

4
EXADATA ELASTIC CONFIGURATIONS
Rack Size Database Servers and Cores Storage Servers and Cores HC Storage Capacity (raw) EF Storage Capacity (raw)

Base Rack (Quarter 2x servers, 128 cores 3x servers, 60 cores for SQL 288 TB disk, 38.4 TB flash 76.8 TB flash
Rack) offload

+ Database Servers
5
Up to 10 servers , 640 cores n/a n/a or n/a
max per rack
5
+ Storage Servers n/a Up to 16x servers , 320 cores 1,536 TB disk, 204.8 TB flash 409.6 TB flash max per rack
max per rack max per rack
4
A full rack elastic configuration cannot exceed 18 servers and 39 RU (Rack Units). Database Servers = 3 RU, Storage Servers = 2 RU
5
Maximum number of database servers allowed in an elastic configuration is 10. Maximum number of storage servers allowed in an elastic configuration is 16.

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 InfiniBand fabric. Larger
configurations can be built with external InfiniBand switches. Connected racks can be any combination of V2, X2, X3, X4, X5 or X6 hardware.

Eighth Rack to Quarter Upgradability: Field upgrade from Eighth Rack to Quarter Rack. Expand just compute or just storage or both. Additional Hardware
Rack Upgrade Components are enabled/installed with the Upgrade:
For each Database Server: Thirty two additional cores are enabled,
For each EF Storage Server: Ten additional cores and four PCI Flash drives are enabled
For each HC Storage Server: Ten additional cores are enabled, six disks and two PCI Flash Cache cards are installed.

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EXADATA SL6 CAPACITY AND PERFORMANCE METRICS: INDIVIDUAL SERVERS

Server Type Maximum SQL Flash Maximum SQL Read Maximum SQL Write PCI Flash Disk Data
Bandwidth2 IOPS3 IOPS4 Capacity (raw)5 Capacity(raw)

Database Server NA 1,050,000 1,015,000 NA 2.4 TB

1
Storage Server HC 18 GB/s 475,000 410,000 12.8 TB 96 TB
1
Storage Server EF 20 GB/s 495,000 450,000 25.6 TB N/A

EXADATA SL6 TYPICAL RACK CONFIGURATIONS: FLASH METRICS (HC & EF)

Maximum SQL Flash Maximum SQL Flash Maximum SQL Flash PCI Flash Capacity (raw)
Flash Metrics
Bandwidth Read IOPS Write IOPS
Full Rack HC 252 GB/s 6,650,000 5,740,000 179.2 TB
Equivalent*
EF 280 GB/s 6,930,000 6,300,000 358.4 TB
Half Rack HC 126 GB/s 3,325,000 2,870,000 89.6 TB
EF 140 GB/s 3,465,000 3,150,000 179.2 TB
Quarter Rack HC 54 GB/s 1,425,000 1,230,000 38.4 TB
EF 60 GB/s 1,485,000 1,350,000 76.8 TB
Eighth Rack HC 70 GB/s 712,500 615,000 19.2 TB
EF 30 GB/s 742,500 675,000 38.4 TB

EXADATA SL6 TYPICAL RACK CONFIGURATIONS: DISK METRICS (HC)

Disk Metrics Maximum SQL Disk Bandwidth Maximum SQL Disk IOPS Data Capacity (raw)
Full Rack Equivalent* 25 GB/s 36,000 1,344 TB
Half Rack 12.5 GB/s 18,000 672 TB
Quarter Rack 5.4 GB/s 7,800 288 TB
Eighth Rack 2.7 GB/s 3,900 144 TB

EXADATA SL6 TYPICAL RACK CONFIGURATIONS: COMBINED METRICS (HC & EF)

Combined Metrics Data Capacity (Usable) Normal Redundancy 6 Data Capacity (Usable) High Redundancy 6 Maximum Data Load Rate7
Full Rack HC 508 TB 399 TB 21 TB/hour
EF 130 TB 102 TB 21 TB/hour
Half Rack HC 254 TB 199 TB 11 TB/hour
EF 65 TB 51 TB 11 TB/hour
Quarter Rack HC 109 TB 85 TB 5 TB/hour
EF 28 TB 22 TB 5 TB/hour
Eighth Rack HC 54 TB 43 TB 2.5 TB/hour
EF 14 TB 11 TB 3 TB/hour
.
HC = High Capacity EF = Extreme Flash. Actual system performance varies by application.
1

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 IOs 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 IOs to
maintain redundancy.
5
Raw capacity is measured in standard disk drive terminology with 1 GB = 1 billion bytes.
6
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, DBFS disk group, and OS images and binaries.
7
Load rates are typically limited by database server CPU, not IO. Rates vary based on load method, indexes, data types, compression, and partitioning.
8
Full Rack equivalent represents a configuration with 8 SL6 Database Servers and 14 Storage Servers

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EXADATA DATABASE MACHINE SL6 COMPONENT ENVIRONMENTAL SPECIFICATIONS

SL6 Database Server Plus X6-2 High Capacity X6-2 Extreme Flash
Metric InfiniBand Infrastructure Storage Server Plus Storage Server Plus
InfiniBand Infrastructure InfiniBand Infrastructure

Height 5.1 in. (127.8 mm) 3.5 in. (87.6 mm)

Width 17.2 in. (436.5 mm) 17.5 in. (445.0 mm)
Depth 29.0 in. (737.0 mm) 29.0 in. (737.0 mm)

Acoustic noise (operating) 8.0 B 7.8 B 7.8 B

Weight 80.0 lbs (36.3 kgs) 73.0 lbs (33.1 kgs) 62.0 lbs (28.1 kgs)

Maximum power usage 1.8 kW (1.8 kVA) 0.588 kW (0.600 kVA) 0.547 kW ( 0.558 kVA)
Typical power usage 1 1.3 kW (1.3 kVA) 0.412 kW (0.420 kVA) 0.383 kW ( 0.391 kVA)

Cooling at maximum usage 6,142 BTU/hour 2,006 BTU/hour 1,866 BTU/hour

(6,480 kJ/hour) (2,117 kJ/hour) (1,969 kJ/hour)
Cooling at typical usage 4,299 BTU/hour 1,404 BTU/hour 1,307 BTU/hour
(4,536 kJ/hour) (1,482 kJ/hour) (1,378 kJ/hour)

Airflow at maximum usage 2 284 CFM 93 CFM 86 CFM

Airflow at typical usage 2 199 CFM 65 CFM 60 CFM

Operating temperature/humidity: 5 C to 32 C (41 F to 89.6 F), as measured by an industry grade temperature measurement device
directed at the front bezel of the servers, 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.
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EXADATA DATABASE MACHINE SL6 ENVIRONMENTAL SPECIFICATIONS

Metric Half Rack Quarter Rack Eighth Rack

Height
78.66 - 1998 mm
Width 23.62 600 mm
Depth 47.24 1200 mm

Acoustic noise (operating) 8.6 B 8.4 B 8.4 B

Environmentals With High Capacity Disks

Weight 1353.5 lbs (613.9 kg) 910.5 lb (413.0 kg) 880.3 lbs (399.3 kg)

Maximum power usage 12.2 kW (12.5 kVA) 6.3 kW (6.4 kVA) 5.1 kW (5.2 kVA)
1
Typical power usage 8.6 kW (8.7 kVA) 4.4 kW (4.5 kVA) 3.6 kW (3.6 kVA)

Cooling at maximum usage 41,734 BTU/hour 21,243 BTU/hour 17,403 BTU/hour

44,029 kJ/hour 22,603 kJ/hour 18,360 kJ/hour

Cooling at typical usage 29,214 BTU/hour 14,997 BTU/hour 12,182 BTU/hour

30,820 kJ/hour 15,822 kJ/hour 12,852 kJ/hour

Airflow at maximum usage 2 1932 CFM 992 CFM 806 CFM

2
Airflow at typical usage 1352 CFM 694 CFM 564 CFM

Environmentals With Extreme Flash Drives

Weight 1276.5 lbs (590.0 kg) 877.5 lbs (398.0 kg) 877.5 lbs (398.0 kg)

Maximum power usage 11.9 kW (12.2 kVA) 6.2 kW (6.3 kVA) 5.0 kW (5.1 kVA)
1
Typical power usage 8.4 kW (8.5 kVA) 4.3 kW (4.3 kVA) 3.5 kW (3.6 kVA)

Cooling at maximum usage 40,755 BTU/hour 21,005 BTU/hour 17,149 BTU/hour

42,996 kJ/hour 22,160 kJ/hour 18,092 kJ/hour

Cooling at typical usage 28,528 BTU/hour 14,704 BTU/hour 12,004 BTU/hour

30,097kJ/hour 15,512 kJ/hour 12,664 kJ/hour

2
Airflow at maximum usage 1887 CFM 972 CFM 794 CFM
2
Airflow at typical usage 1321 CFM 681 CFM 556 CFM

Operating temperature/humidity: 5 C to 32 C (41 F to 89.6 F), as measured by an industry grade temperature measurement device directed at the front bezel of
the servers 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 SL6 REGULATIONS AND CERTIFICATIONS

Regulations 1 Safety: UL/CSA 60950-1, EN 60950-1, IEC 60950-1 CB Scheme with all country differences

RFI/EMI: EN55022, EN61000-3-11, EN61000-3-12

Immunity: EN 55024

Emissions and Immunity: EN300 386

1
Certifications North America (NRTL), European Union (EU), International CB Scheme, BSMI (Taiwan), C-Tick (Australia), CCC (PRC),
MSIP (Korea), CU EAC (Customs Union), VCCI (Japan)
European Union Directives 1 2006/95/EC Low Voltage Directive, 2004/108/EC 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. Other country regulations/certifications may
apply. In some cases, as applicable, regulatory and certification compliance were obtained at the component level.

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EXADATA DATABASE MACHINE SL6 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 SL6
Each Exadata Database Machine SL6 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.

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KEY FEATURES & FUNCTIONALITY

Exadata and Database Software Features - Analytics

SQL in Silicon
Capacity in Silicon
Automatically Parallelize and Offload Data Scans to storage
Filter Rows in Storage based on 'where' clause
Filter Rows in Storage based on columns selected
JSON and XML Offload
Filter rows in Storage based on Join with other Table
Hybrid Columnar Compression
Storage Index data skipping
I/O Resource Management by User, Query, Service, DB, etc.
Automatic Transformation to Columnar Format in Flash Cache
Smart Flash Caching for Table Scans
Offload Index Fast Full Scans
Offloads Scans on Encrypted Data, with FIPS compliance
Storage offload for LOBs and CLOBs
Storage offload for min/max operations
Data Mining Offload
All Ports Active InfiniBand Messaging
Reverse Offload to DB servers if Storage CPUs are Busy
Automatic Data Compression in Flash Cache
Offload JSON and XML analytic queries

Exadata and Database Software Features - OLTP

Database Aware PCI Flash
Exadata Smart Flash Caching
Exadata Smart Flash Logging
Write-back Flash Cache
I/O Prioritization by DB, User, or workload to ensure QOS
Exafusion Direct-to-Wire Protocol
Network Resource Management
Exachk full-stack validation
Full-stack security scanning
NVMe flash interface for lowest latency IO
Database scoped security
Cell-to-Cell Rebalance preserving Flash Cache
Secure disk and flash erase
Oracle VM with SRIOV
InfiniBand Partitioning
Instant data file creation
Active Bonding of InfiniBand
Smart Fusion Block Transfer
Automatic VLAN creation
Set Minimum or Maximum Flash Cache Size per Database

Exadata and Database Software Features - High Availability

Instant Detection of Node or Cell Failure
In-Memory Fault Tolerance
Sub-second Failover of I/O on stuck disk or flash
Offload backups to storage servers
Exadata Data Validation (H.A.R.D.)
Prioritize rebalance of critical files
Automatic Hard Disk scrub and repair
Power cycle failed drives to Eliminate false drive failures
Avoid reading Predictive failed disks
Cell software transparent restart
Flash and disk life cycle management alert
Confinement of temporarily poor performing drives
Prevent shutdown if mirror server is down
Detection and disabling of unreliable network links
Preserve Storage Index on Rebalance
Automatic disk scrub and repair

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Manageability Features
Oracle Embedded Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM)
Oracle Enterprise Manager Exadata Plug-in
Active AWR includes storage stats for end to end monitoring
IPv6 Support for Ethernet Connections
Capacity on Demand
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 12c Enterprise Edition. 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 Storage Server Software. Licenses are transferable from one system to another, or to a new system

Oracle Software (included):

For database servers: Oracle Linux 6 Update 7 with the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 2. Zero-loss Zero-copy Datagram Protocol (ZDP) InfiniBand 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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