Exadata Certification: Comparison of Exadata Machines X6

Recently Oracle announced seventh generation Exadata Database Machine X6-2 and X6-8 with cloud enabling, more processing power, better networking and of course larger storage and memory than earlier version. In one sentence it's just awesome.

Key features:

Up to 836 CPU cores and 14.6TB memory per rack for database processing
Up to 360 CPU cores per rack dedicated to SQL processing in storage
From 2 to 19 Database Servers per rack
From 3 to 18 Storage Servers per rack
Up to 460 TB of flash capacity (raw) per rack
Up to 1.7 PB of disk capacity (raw) per rack
Hybrid Columnar Compression often delivers 10X-15X compression ratios
40 Gb/second (QDR) InfiniBand Network
Complete redundancy for high availability

You can go through the below link to get more details about this high performance Oracle Exadata Database Machine.

Happy Exadating....:) Source: www.oracle.com

First exadata box V1 released in 2008 with the combination of Oracle software and HP hardware. Since that time Oracle came up with multiple exadata version with improved hardware and software.

Oracle Exadata X6-2 released in Arpil-2016 which is the 7th generation of exadata. Since 2008 its first release V1, exadata gone under a number of significant changes in terms of resource performance and capacity.

You can go through our earlier post for more detailed history of Exadata.

"The Only Permanent in Life is Change"

Following graphs will give you better understanding of exadata growth from V1 to X6 release. This article will also helps to the folks who are preparing for the certification.

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