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2021

TAdviser: Oracle Exata X9M New Platform Overview

For more than 10 years, Oracle Exadata appliances have benefited in performance and reliability when it comes to hosting Oracle Database. However, the new release of Oracle Exata X9M has become the most significant in recent years, as it allows you to increase the speed of processing online transactions (OLTP) up to 70% IOPS, as well as reduce delays below 19 microseconds. More details here.

Exadata Database Machine X9M и Exadata Cloud Customer X9M

On September 29, 2021, Oracle introduced the Oracle Exata X9M platforms. The updated version is the most accessible environment for running Oracle DBMS. Among the announced solutions are Oracle Exata Database Machine X9M and Exata Cloud Customer X9M, which allows you to host Oracle Autonomous Database in your own customer data centers, complying with local requirements for the geographical location of protected categories of information.

According to the company, the next generation of Exata X9M platforms features updated online transaction processing speed (OLTP) up to 70% IOPS, as well as reduced latency below 19 microseconds. In addition, the platform demonstrates 87% faster work with SQL analytical queries and machine learning tasks . With more optimized performance at previous prices, Exata X9M allows users to reduce the cost of supporting transactional workloads by up to 42% and analytics by up to 47%.

The Oracle Exata X9M generation is the next step in implementing our platform strategy to work with, DBMS making it available in all environments-in, public cloud Cloud Customer, and in physical environments. When creating X9M, we used processors network solutions and, storage systems and optimized our own to software achieve proper performance. As a result, users can count on fast OLTP and. to the analyst said Juan Loaiza, executive vice president of Mission-Critical Database Technologies at Oracle

Oracle continues to extend the boundaries of the possible with the updated version of Exata Cloud Customer X9M. Together with the automated capabilities of Autonomous Database, this solution allows you to launch enterprise-level cloud databases in local data centers. said Carl Olofson, vice president of research at Data Management Software, IDC

The Exata Cloud Customer X9M is faster than previous generations of the platform. The system shows an increase of up to 80% in speed, scannings up to 87% in IOPS, and SQL read delays were reduced to 19 microseconds. Higher performance at the same device cost reduces costs by up to 47% compared to the previous generation of systems, and the use of elastic storage reduces infrastructure costs for especially large loads by up to 45%. ON Operator Access Control allows users to control all their systems remotely.

Oracle Autonomous Database - A self-managed DBMS is now available with the Exata Cloud Customer X9M. A key possibility of this configuration is to support small databases that occupy only a fraction of the CPU resources. By integrating with Oracle Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance, the solution provides protection against data loss as well as cyber attacks. In addition, users can enable additional security features such as encryption key management and Access Control Lists (ACLs) at the DBMS level. Optimized disaster recovery systems with Oracle Autonomous Data Guard are now also available for mission-critical business applications. Oracle GoldenGate enables heterogeneous data replication and streaming for real-time analytics.

The Exata X9M itself uses a scalable architecture that includes Intel processors, Intel Optane Persistent Memory (PMem), and RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE), providing up to 27.6M IOPS and the latency level of <19 микросекунд (OLTP). Для ускорения работы аналитических приложений каждая стойка Exadata X9M обеспечивает более 1 Tб/сек для аналитического сканирования, а также предлагает доступ к 576 CPU прямо на intelligent storage servers - specifically for low-level SQL queries, analytical learning, and algorithms.

Exata X9M allows you to run any combination of OLTP loads, analytics, machine learning, in-memory computing, and mixed workloads for faster task execution and reduced resource consumption. The system has 33% more processor resources and memory, and 28% more data storage than the previous generation. This enables Exata X9M users to consolidate even more Oracle DBMS on a single Exata system, reducing both the cost and complexity of the entire IT infrastructure.

Another announcement is Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance X9M. The Recovery Appliance. This is a special solution for Oracle DBMS protection with the ability to recover databases without loss and verify the consistency of backups. Oracle also introduced Cyber Vault capabilities for reliable recovery from various malware attacks. The updated version of Recovery Appliance optimizes storage capacity by up to 30% and is 50% more affordable than the entry-level model. Updated solution features include synchronization between multiple Recovery Appliances to ensure continuous backup and recovery processes for both scheduled and unplanned operations. Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage are also integrated for long-term backup storage.

2019: Exadata Database Machine X8

On June 18, 2019, Oracle announced the release of Oracle Exata Database Machine X8 optimized complexes, which is based on a significant improvement in hardware and software, as well as extensive machine learning capabilities. Oracle Exata delivers high performance and availability and serves as a platform for Oracle Autonomous Database and Oracle Cloud Applications.

Oracle has included machine learning capabilities in the Exata X8, including Automating Indexing functionality. Automatic indexing of data allows the database to constantly learn and adapt to changing usage profiles. The whole process is based on technologies from Oracle Autonomous Database and is completely automatic, it improves database performance and eliminates the need for manual configuration. The built-in automatic monitoring system combines the capabilities of artificial intelligence technologies, many years of experience in making decisions to adjust performance when performing real tasks and practices, which allows you to automatically identify performance problems and their root cause without human participation, Oracle noted.

"If you look at the development of the market for IT infrastructure solutions over the past 10 years, Oracle Exata has become a key platform for Oracle Database users, thanks to which it was possible to" jump "from local data centers to the public cloud. As the backbone of Oracle Autonomous Database, Exata X8 platforms make machine learning technologies available for both cloud and locally deployed Oracle Database applications. Oracle Exata and Oracle Recovery Appliance enable enterprises to reduce costs, simplify operations, increase security, and improve performance in Oracle Database environments. " noted Carl Olofson, IDC Vice President of Data Management Software Research

According to the developer, high-tech hardware enhancements to the Exata X8, such as processors Intel Xeon flash technologies PCIe NVME, increase performance: data I/O speed storage systems All-Flash in increased by 60%, and the number of I/O operations on server storage - by 25% compared to Exata X7. Each Data Storage Exata X8 server has 60% more cores to reload the Oracle database server, and disk drives have increased by 40% to handle data growth and facilitate database consolidation. Improvements did not affect the price, Oracle emphasized.

Another update noted in Oracle is a low-cost extended storage server for data that is rarely used, old, or subject to regulatory retention. Customers can take advantage of the scalable Exata and Oracle Database architecture to process all data, and the price will be comparable to the cost of placing on an object or Hadoop-. storage These features include transparency for, applications operational model consistency, hybrid generation compression (HCC), and a single security model enciphering with data at all levels.

The Exata X8 generation is the result of more than a decade of development. The complex serves as a platform for Oracle Autonomous Database. Thanks to machine learning technologies, the Oracle standalone database offers a cloud-based database service with self-management, self-defense, and self-healing functions, providing, according to the developer, a more reliable and secure system that allows organizations and developers to work more productively. Oracle offers various options for deploying Exata: in the public cloud of Oracle Cloud, according to the Oracle Exata Cloud at Customer model (with the placement of the public cloud in the customer's data center), or locally.

2017

Oracle Exata Cloud Availability in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

In August, Oracle announced the availability of Oracle Exata Cloud in next-generation Oracle cloud infrastructure. The combination of Oracle Exata - a platform for local and public cloud databases - with Bare Metal computing services and Oracle Cloud storage services provides a combination of high performance and availability for the entire application stack. According to Oracle, these integrated and fully programmable cloud services optimize all stages of application development and deployment through faster connectivity, provisioning, data processing, and database access.^[1]

Next-generation Oracle cloud infrastructure is optimized for enterprise workloads and now supports Oracle Exata, a powerful database platform Kash Iftikhar , said (Kash Iftikhar), Oracle's vice president of product management. - With Oracle Exata's computing power, customers using our infrastructure can now migrate applications to the cloud that were previously impossible to implement, without the cost of developing a new architecture, and achieve incredible performance across the entire application stack. We optimize the most important applications of our customers - from servers applications that play the role of an external interface, to the database and storage itself.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers the customer self-automated provisioning of multiple Bare Metal servers in less than five minutes, each supporting more than 4 million IOPS, block storage that scales linearly to 60 IOPS per gigabyte, and now Oracle Extrata Cloud with low network latency Virtual Cloud networks. The combination of these capabilities allows applications to operate at high speed. In addition, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers full compatibility with Oracle databases deployed on-site, helping you seamlessly move to the cloud and implement an efficient hybrid cloud strategy.

Oracle Exadata SL6

On February 7, 2017, Oracle introduced the Exata SL6, an integrated Exata system. The main difference in its implementation on the Sparc M7 RISC processors. Previous models of this system are based on Intel Xeon processors.

There are minor differences in Exata SL6 configuration, excluding compute nodes, from the Exata X6-2 integrated system previously released on x86 processors. Both systems are optimized for Oracle database maintenance and use Oracle Linux, InfinBand interconnects, and hard drive and Flash storage nodes ^[2]

The Sparc M7 processor consists of 32 processor cores and operates at 4.1 GHz. The processor chip is equipped with a Data Analytics Accelerator (DAX) hardware accelerator for processing analytical queries to the database.

In the maximum Exata SL6 configuration, by combining the two-socket computing nodes of the system into a cluster, up to 20 computing nodes with 640 processor cores and 10 TB of RAM are scaled.

2016: Oracle Exata X6 Database Machine Release

On April 5, 2016, Oracle announced the release of the optimized software and hardware complex Oracle Exata X6 Database Machine. According to the corporation, PAC has high performance, capacity and availability. More details here.

2015: Exadata Database Machine X5-8

On November 9, 2015, Oracle announced the launch of sales of the Exata Database Machine X5, an optimized Oracle X5 family of hardware and software.

Oracle Exata integrates hardware and software to achieve the highest database performance at the lowest cost. Each Oracle Exata X5-8 complex offers up to 576 processor cores, more than 1.3 PB of disk storage or 180 TB of ultra-fast flash storage, and up to 24 TB of RAM.

Oracle Exata Database Machine X5 Scalable (2015)

Oracle Exata X5-8 is a platform for in-memory data management systems (in-memory databases) for large data warehouses or demanding transactional applications (OLTP). The huge processing power and large amounts of RAM and storage offered by the Oracle Exata X5-8 are designed for large-scale database deployment projects in the private cloud. Oracle Exata X5-8 enables you to consolidate a large number of databases with different workloads on a single Exata system, resulting in significant reductions in operating and administration costs.

Hardware capabilities of the complex

• Database Server - Oracle Exata Database Machine X5-8 upgraded 8-socket database servers to support the ultra-fast 18-core Intel E7-8895 v3 processors, with a total of up to 144 cores per database server. Additional processor cores and updated architecture can achieve up to 25% performance gains.
• Double Storage Server Memory - High Capacity Storage Servers in Oracle Exata Database Machine X5-8 use 8 TB SAS3 disk drives to double the total storage capacity of the previous generation X4-8.
• Optimized Oracle Exata appliances contain unique software that dramatically improves database performance while reducing costs.

Oracle Exata X5-8 packages come with the latest software version (12.1.2.2.0), which provides the following capabilities:

• IPv6 support for Ethernet networks
• simplified control and improved safety by using the tool ExaCLI
• improved storage statistics in AWR reports
• Reverse Offload enhancements
• improved reliability, fault tolerance, and availability

Oracle Exata X5-8 is a model that complements the Oracle Exata X5-2 offering and provides storage and networking capabilities, as is Oracle Exata X5-2. Storage and computing resources can be flexibly configured and expanded one server at a time, enabling customers to scale the complex incrementally as needed at reduced cost.

Flexible configuration allows you to create specialized implementations of the Oracle Exata Database Machine software and hardware complex, such as optimized solutions for Oracle Database In-Memory or All-Flash systems for OLTP (fully created on flash storage memory ).

Oracle Exata software supports previous generation Oracle Exata hardware systems, Database 12c and Oracle Database 11g Release 2.

Processors

For a long time, there was no alternative to deploying complex business-critical systems with high processor and memory consumption except on UNIX servers-. For example, in 2010 servers processorsIntel , the Xeon X5680 was limited to 2 processors and 12 cores per server. While the UNIX platform allowed you to create solutions with dozens of processors and more than 100 cores. Over the past few years, today's Intel server vendors have stepped forward. The Oracle use of the next generation Intel Xeon ® processor E7-8895 v3 in the Exata X5-8 has created a complex that allows you to solve any tasks with maximum database load.

Flexible configurations for business needs

Previous generations of Oracle Exata - X4-8, X3-8, X2-8 - were offered only in Full Rack configuration (full server rack with two compute nodes for databases and 14 storage cells). Now, for the new Exata X5-8 complex, it is possible to purchase a smaller base solution: Half Rack (half of the server rack). For many IT managers, this opportunity is critical, because the performance of the full Exata Full Rack is simply huge. Oracle Exata X5-8 Half Rack consists of 2 database servers and 3 storage cells (Exata Storage Server). And the Full Rack complex can now contain 4 servers, which in total gives 576 high-performance cores of the latest generation. In addition, with the release of the new Oracle Exata X5 series, it became possible to order flexible configurations. Oracle calls them elastic, that is, you can add the required number of database servers or storage servers to the basic configuration. As a result, you get exactly what you need for your application - the right number of cores (for example, for OLTP - transactional systems), memory, disks (for example, for DWH - data stores).

It should be noted that the next generation Exata X5-2 (with 2 processors) and X5-8 (with 8 processors) are absolutely the same in terms of architecture, that is, they have the same duplicated Infiniband network, the same storage servers, the same features. Difference only in database servers. The Exata X5-2 uses servers with 2 processors of 18 cores, and the X5-8 uses 8 processors of 18 cores. As a result of adding a new database server to the configuration for X5-2, we obtain an additional 36 physical cores, and for X5-8 - 144 physical cores.

Processing power of 576 cores per server rack

The Oracle Exata complex from the very beginning made it possible to combine several server racks into a single and integral solution. And in order to assess the power of the updated platform, let's look at the Exata X5-8 solution, which fits in half the server rack. Oracle Exadata X5-8 Half Rack includes 288 Xeon ® E7 cores - 8895 v3 Processors (2.80 GHz), 12 TB RAM, provides 1.2 M Read IOPS drives, 576,000 Write IOPS for High Read configuration, 1TRE2 drives, IPS for 1M Reacit.2 These are exactly the "hooks, screws and fasteners" that CIO pays attention to when choosing systems.

And the updated full Oracle Exata X5-8 Full Rack now has 576 cores, 24 TB RAM and is capable of delivering extremely high performance. Its I/O characteristics are also impressive, namely up to 4.140M Read IOPS (I/O per second), 2.688 M Write IOPS for High Capacity configuration and 4.140M Read IOPS, 4.140M Write IOPS for Extreme Flash. For more information, see^[3]

Performance is Storage Systems typically measured using IOPS or GB/sec throughput. At the same time, most manufacturers publish these indicators when working with ordinary files, which raises many questions. I.e. The program runs at a level operating system that places a load on the storage system. Oracle for Exata measures I/O performance at a higher level, namely at the database level. The IO load is created by SQL queries. This indicator reflects the actual operation of the I/O system, taking into account the specifics of the client process, the database, the operating system, the SAN and the I/O system itself, and blocks of 8K are used for performance measurements.

2014: Exadata Database Machine X4-8

On July 22, 2014, Oracle announced the release of the optimized software and hardware complex Exata Database Machine X4-8, featuring high processing power, large amount of RAM and storage system.

The PAC has increased processing power and memory, improved communication infrastructure. The system provides a platform for customers to support the most critical operations, including OLTP, data warehouses, and Big Data analysis. The new suite is specially optimized for cloud DBaaS solutions and in-memory databases, and is part of the fifth generation Oracle Exata X4 line of software and hardware systems.

Oracle Exadata Database Machine X4-8

The fifth-generation Exata Database Machine X4-8 delivers superior computing performance and data throughput for extremely high database workloads with powerful eight-socket database servers, intelligent storage, ultra-fast PCI flash cards, and unified network architecture for InfiniBand connections.

The Exata Database Machine X4-8 works well with traditional database workloads such as online transaction processing (OLTP) and data warehouses. In addition, it is specially optimized for next-generation workloads - databases delivered according to the DBaaS model ("database as a service"), and databases placed in memory (in-memory database). Equipped with up to 12 TB of DRAM, the Exatata Database Machine X4-8 can consolidate hundreds of databases and support large databases in RAM.

The Exata Database Machine X4-8 is optimized for DDOracle Database In-Memory, supports in-memory data processing with increased DRAM memory - along with transparent distribution of data across Flash storage tiers and disk drives for data that is less demanding on processing performance.

In addition, the Exata Database Machine X4-8 supports Oracle Database In-Memory fault tolerance, allowing you to keep processing tasks in RAM even if the database node fails.

The Exata Database Machine X4-8 helps reduce operational and management costs for large-scale Oracle Database deployments in the private and public cloud, enabling enterprise DBaS solutions and large consolidation projects.

The Exata Database Machine X4-8 compute nodes use the optimized 15-core Intel Xeon processor E7-8895 v2, allowing you to smoothly scale the operating frequency and number of processor cores to achieve peak performance.

The Exata Database Machine X4-8 delivers significant performance gains and more RAM than the previous generation. Complex hardware enhancements:

• a 50% increase in the number of compute cores on database nodes through the use of 15-core Xeon E7 v2 processors;

up to 6 TB of RAM per computing node to achieve a total memory capacity of 12 TB per rack; 2x faster network infrastructure InfiniBand with a new PCI card with all active ports Almost 2x more local disk memory up to 672 TB of disk space and 44TB PCI flash cards per rack.

The Exata Database Machine X4-8 hardware is functionally compatible with previous generations of Oracle Exata Database Machine complexes, allowing customers to expand existing systems with the latest version. In addition, the new Oracle Exata software supports previous generation Oracle Exata hardware systems, as well as versions of SUBDOracle Database 12c and Oracle Database 11g Release 2.

2013: Exadata Database Machine X4-2

December 13, 2013 it became known about the entry into the IT market of the Russia fifth generation Exata -Oracle Exata Database Machine X4-2, a powerful hardware and software complex for working with large amounts of data.

Description

The X4-2 is equipped with 4th generation Intel processors, increased flash memory with the ability to compress data directly in it. The top version of Exata, excluding support and DBMS licenses, costs $2.78 million.

Oracle announced the availability of the new Exata for ordering in Russia. The appliance received the X4-2 index for the number of fourth-generation Intel processors installed on each of its servers. Prior to this, the previous generation X3-2 machine was an analogue in the line, the servers of which were equipped with two third-generation Intel processors.

Compared to the X-3 version, the Exata X-4 performs 77-100% more I/O per unit time, Infiniband throughput almost doubled,; and the capacity of flash memory doubled. The size of the logical buffer when filling the entire rack increased from 44 TB to 88 TB.

Disk storage performance and capacity have increased markedly. With Oracle compression technology, the X-4 can now store petabytes of data. By increasing the flash buffer, customers can hold most transactional databases in flash memory. Thus, hundreds of databases are located in one Exata X-4 rack.

X4 can be equipped with 3 to 14 storage servers, and the number of database servers can be from 2 to 8. The same number of servers was in X3-2. But the total number of processor cores has grown due to the use of 12-nuclear processors in X4 instead of 8-nuclear in X3.

A maximum of 168 cores are responsible for processing requests on storage servers; up to 192 cores (previously 128) can work on database servers.

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2012

Oracle Exata Demo Zone in I-Teco

In September 2012, Ai-Teko announced the opening of the Oracle Exata Database Machine demo zone. High-performance software and hardware complex Oracle Exata, part of Oracle Engineered Systems family, is installed and prepared on the site of AI-Teko's own commercial data center.

The demo zone is deployed in "TrastInfo" for testing on the optimized Oracle complex of applications required by customers and evaluating the efficiency of the infrastructure built with Oracle Exata. Its architecture allows you to overcome the limitations set for storage systems, providing high speed of information processing.

In the I-Teco demo zone, you can not only test the operation of the Oracle Exata hardware and hardware complex and evaluate the results, but also create an optimal configuration with the help of I-Teco technical specialists.

Oracle Exadata X3 Database In-Memory Machine

In a plenary report at the opening of the Oracle OpenWorld conference (autumn 2012), Oracle head Larry Ellison introduced Oracle Exata X3 Database In-Memory Machine, the latest generation of optimized Oracle Exadata Database Machine software and hardware complexes.

Oracle Exata X3 Database In-Memory Machine is a key component of Oracle Cloud.

Oracle Exata X3-2 Database In-Memory Machine and Oracle Exata X3-8 Database In-Memory Machine can store hundreds of terabytes of compressed user data in flash and RAM, which practically eliminates the performance loss caused by the use of slow drives during reading and writing. This makes Exata X3 systems ideal platforms for mixed-load and leapfrog databases that are specific to cloud computing.

To achieve the highest performance at the lowest cost, Oracle Exata X3 Database In-Memory Machine implements a tiered memory scheme: all active data is automatically moved to flash and RAM, and less active data remains on inexpensive disks.

Oracle Exata X3-2 Database In-Memory Machine in the new 1/8 rack configuration is an affordable and reliable entry-level system for small workloads, testing, development, and disaster recovery that can be used for mission-critical applications.

"Big businesses thinking about the future are heading for cloud architectures," said Andrew Mendelsohn, senior vice president for Oracle Database Server Technologies. - The uniqueness of Oracle Exata is that it is suitable for any database, uses a scale-out architecture, combines huge amounts of memory to achieve exceptional performance and low-cost drives to provide large capacity. That's why it's the perfect solution for deploying databases to the cloud today. "

Oracle Exata X3 Database In-Memory Machine combines horizontally scalable servers and storage systems, InfiniBand network infrastructure, PCI Flash, intelligent storage and memory caching, and hybrid generation compression technology Hybrid Columnar Compression to deliver exceptional performance and availability for all Oracle database workloads.

To deliver significant performance gains, Oracle Exata X3 Database In-Memory Machine systems take advantage of next-generation technologies such as:

• Up to 4x more Flash memory than previous generation systems; up to 40% faster response time and 100 GB/s data scan speed. With the unique Exata Hybrid Columnar Compression technology, hundreds of terabytes of user data can now be stored directly in flash memory.
• Up to 20 times faster database writes with ON the Exata Smart Flash Cache upgrade. The new Exata Smart Flash Cache software also runs on previous generation Exata systems, reducing recording time by ten times.
• Oracle Exata X3-2 Database In-Memory Machine processor cores are 33% to grow with the latest 8-core Intel ® Xeon processor E5-2600 series.
• Advanced 10GB Ethernet-based Oracle Exata X3-2 connectivity in the data center - 40 network ports at 10 Gb/s per rack for user connectivity and data migration.
• Up to 30% reduction in power consumption and room cooling costs.

Oracle Exata X3-2 Database In-Memory Machine is available in full rack, ½ and ¼ rack configurations, and now in a new low-cost 1/8 rack configuration designed to meet the requirements of a wide range of applications. Oracle Exata X3-8 Database In-Memory Machine complexes are available in full racks, with both X3-2 and X3-8 systems supporting multi-rack configurations, providing virtually unlimited scalability.

Oracle Exata X3-2 and X3-8 Database In-Memory Machine are fully compatible with previous generations of Exata, while existing systems also allow upgrades using Oracle Exata X3-2 servers.

Oracle Exata X3 Database In-Memory Machine is ready to work with any applications certified for Oracle Database 11g R2 and Oracle Real Application Clusters, including SAP, Oracle Fusion Applications, Oracle PeopleSoft, Oracle Siebel CRM, Oracle E-Business Suite and thousands of other applications.

2011

SAP Applications Certified for Oracle Exata Database Machine

Customers can consolidate SAP ERP and SAP BW applications in private cloud environments

On August 12, 2011, Oracle announced the certification of SAP applications for use with the Oracle ® Exatata Database Machine.

SAP applications based on the SAP NetWeaver 7.x architecture, such as SAP ERP and SAP Business Warehouse (BW), which have been certified for compatibility with Oracle Database 11g Release 2, can now be deployed using Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-2 and X2-8.

Oracle positions Exata as the leading-edge database platform for running SAP applications

With more than 1,000 installations in August 2011, Oracle Exata software and hardware is a platform for running mission-critical SAP business applications. Oracle Database is the leading database for SAP OLTP and BW applications.

Oracle Exata is the first integrated software and hardware complex created for database management and combines storage software and standard hardware. Combining servers, storage devices, software, and network infrastructure, Oracle Exata provides a platform optimized for database-intensive applications, such as SAP business applications.

Oracle Exata offers:

• A scale-out architecture of standard industrial servers with Oracle Real Application Clusters cluster technologies;
• A scale-out architecture of Oracle Exata storage servers connected via the InfiniBand network interface;
• Terabytes of built-in flash memory that significantly speeds I/O operations;
• Resource management features that help reduce IT costs through large-scale consolidation of ERP, CRM, and SCM application databases, information storage applications, and mixed workloads.

Users of SAP business solutions who require 24/7 application availability can take advantage of the "Maximum Availability Architecture," which is well-known and widely used by hundreds of existing SAP customers.

Since client configurations are completely identical at the system level, Oracle Exata facilitates unification and helps avoid difficult-to-diagnose problems, the company says.

Solution Usage Metrics

In July 2011, Oracle announced that more than 1000 Oracle Exata Database Machine appliances have already been installed in its client organizations. Customers deployed Oracle Exata Database Machines to enterprises in 23 different industries in 67 countries of the world to efficiently manage resource-intensive database applications, Oracle said.

Oracle Exata Demo Center at FORCE Development Center

On April 19, 2011, FORCE Development Center announced the opening of the Oracle Exata Database Machine Demo Center. Here they it is possible to work "live" with a system, to get expert advice about features of its work, control, a configuration, administration, scaling and migration from other platforms. Importantly, prospects will now be able to test the system themselves and get recommendations for deploying and optimizing their applications in the Oracle Exata Database Machine environment.

The Russian market is already mature enough for this class of solutions. Given the unique technological capabilities of this machine, demand is expected primarily from companies for which high application speed is critical and cannot be provided by the usual means. As is known, the computing power of a standard server is limited, and with a significant increase in load, their constant increase is required. Oracle Exata proposes to move part of the data processing process to the storage side, which will process it many times faster and respond simultaneously to the requests of hundreds and thousands of users, while ensuring the highest level of reliability and performance. In addition, the machine is compact, deployable in the shortest possible time and has low power consumption.

FORCE, a Platinum partner and distributor of Oracle, was one of the first in Russia to promote the Oracle Exata Database Machine computing complex. Eight FORS experts have 11 certificates confirming their professional qualifications in the field of Oracle Exata. Over 20 specialists are certified for a wide range of related products, including Oracle Database, Oracle Real Application Clusters, Oracle Data Warehousing, Oracle Database Performance Tuning, Oracle Enterprise Linux. The company has accumulated many years of experience in implementing large-scale projects based on Oracle technologies, including together with partners, as well as experience in testing software solutions on the equipment of its suppliers within the framework of previously existing joint technology centers. On the basis of FORCE, a migration center for development companies has been operating for several years - Oracle ISV Migration Center and Oracle Partner Academy.

In September 2012, the FORCE Center for Integrated Solutions announced the expansion of its test complex ExaStack. This state-of-the-art stack includes most of the products of the Oracle Engineered Systems line: Oracle Exata Database Machine, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Oracle Database Appliance and, finally, a novelty, Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine X2-4.

Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine X2-4 is the industry's first in-memory analytics-based hardware and software suite that delivers unprecedented performance for analytics and enterprise performance management applications. Oracle Exalytics helps companies make more efficient and informed decisions in a rapidly changing business, expand the application of analytical technologies to solve a wide variety of business problems, and analyze extremely large amounts of data. All analytical applications developed by the tools of the Oracle BI Foundation tool platform can be run on Oracle Exalytics without any modifications or modifications. Oracle Exalytics appliance is easy to deploy, has convenient management tools, integrates with any IT infrastructure and can be used both independently and in conjunction with Oracle Exata and Oracle Exalogic appliances.

Thus, Russian Oracle partners and their customers have the opportunity to evaluate the benefits of building a data center based on Oracle Engineered Systems, including real-time business intelligence functionality.

FORCE Distribution provides independent software developers with the opportunity to test their applications for compatibility with the latest Oracle hardware and software systems, carry out load testing and prepare for certification of their development according to the requirements of Oracle ExaStack Ready and ExaStack Optimized programs.

For partners working in the field of system integration and their customers, testing their systems on the ExaStack can be useful not only in terms of clarifying the benefits of the business as a result of transferring applications to Oracle Engineered Systems, but also from the perspective of developing a cloud architecture data center.

As part of the testing, FORS Distribution is ready to offer its partners and their customers the services of certified specialists in the direction of Oracle Engineered Systems, its expertise, developed test methods over several years, as well as assistance and versatile support at all stages of the project implementation.

Oracle Exata Demo Center in Jet Infosystems

The Jet Infosystems company and the Oracle CIS representative office announced in January 2011 the opening of a demo center for the Oracle Exata Database Machine software and hardware complex in Moscow. Jet Infosystems is the first in Russia to offer existing and potential customers to test their applications on the high-performance Oracle Exata database machine.

The full, integrated, high-performance Oracle Exata Database Machine appliance is optimized and ready to run. It consists of a cluster of DB servers,, Storage Systems DBMS Oracle Database 11g and intelligent software Oracle Exata Storage Server, which processes and filters requests in close proximity to data, which contributes to faster processing of requests with less loading of wide InfiniBand channels.

Oracle Exata's linear scalability and reliability are critical to supporting business operations successfully. Thanks to its architecture, Oracle Exata removes the limitations of traditional storage systems and provides higher throughput between servers and storage, the company emphasized. According to Infosystems Jet, the solution is in demand by Russian companies, primarily in the telecommunications, financial, retail, production sectors, as well as government agencies.

It is expected that the demo center will allow existing and potential customers to work with Oracle Exata. Companies that deal with huge amounts of data and need to consolidate applications, as well as accelerate the operation of OLTP or DSS applications, will be able to test at the Oracle Exata center and evaluate the capabilities of the complex to solve their specific tasks. Partner and Oracle consultants will assist in evaluating and selecting the optimal configuration of the complete system (application and database). Five Jet Infosystems experts received certificates based on the results of training on Oracle Exata, another 13 specialists passed the exam on a wider range of products, including Oracle Database, Oracle Real Application Clusters, Oracle Data Warehousing, Oracle Database Performance Tuning, Oracle Enterprise Linux.

2010: Exadata Database Machine X2-8

The Oracle Exata Database Machine X2-8 configuration complements the Oracle Exata Database Machine product line with a high-performance system for large-scale OLTP workloads, data warehouses, and consolidated workloads.

The Oracle Exata Database Machine is now available in four configurations: the new Oracle Exata X2-8 full-rack and Oracle Exata X2-2 quarter rack, half rack and full rack.

Customers are offered a choice of configurations for deploying databases of various sizes, from small to huge: Oracle Exata X2-2 and Oracle Exata X2-8 machines in full hardware rack options can scale into multi-rack configurations for the most demanding database management solutions.

Oracle Exata Database Machine X2-8 is a complete grid solution for a distributed computing network or an in-house cloud computing environment. Oracle Exata Database Machine X2-8 configuration includes:

• two eight-processor database servers with a total of 128 Intel processor cores and 2 TB of memory;
• 14 Data Storage Exata Storage Servers with a total of 168 Intel processor cores and up to 336 TB of unformatted disk space;
• Over 5TB of Exata Smart Flash Cache to store frequently requested hot data for high throughput and ultra-short transaction response times
• Multiple compression levels to manage large amounts of data and reduce I/O for OLTP applications and data warehouses
• Internal 40 Gigabit InfiniBand interface
• external 10 Gigabit Ethernet interface.

As an operating system for managing the Oracle Exata Database Machines machine, customers will be offered the choice of Oracle Linux OS with the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel or Oracle Solaris 11 Express OS.

Using the information security capabilities built into each Oracle Database, the Oracle Exata Database Machine X2-8 allows you to access fully encrypted databases at zero cost and at speeds of about hundreds of gigabytes per second.

Supporting Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Real Application Clusters, Oracle Enterprise Manager, and Oracle Exata Storage Software, the Oracle Exata Database Machine X2-8 provides software, servers, storage devices, and network infrastructure for any database requirement.

As noted, Oracle Exata Database Machine X2-8 is designed to help customers quickly prepare scalable and reliable database services in an enterprise cloud computing environment, provide the required levels of performance for demanding enterprise OLTP applications and data warehouses with a large number of users, and reduce IT costs by consolidating ERP, CRM, and mixed workloads on a large scale.

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