Oracle Exadata X7

Oracle Exadata X7

Oracle announced the next-generation Oracle Exadata X7 with significant hardware and software enhancements in overall performance, storage capacity, network bandwidth, and automation. The Oracle Exadata is an Engineered System designed to be the ideal platform for all database workloads.

Key Important features:

-New Exadata Smart Software : Exadata 18c
-Up to 912 CPU core and 28.5TB memory per rack
-2 to 19 DB servers per rack
-3 to 18 Storage servers per rack
-Maximum of 920TB flash capacity
-2.1PB of disk capacity
-Delivers 20% faster throughput from earlier models
-50% more memory capacity from earlier models
-10TB size disk. (10TB x 12 = 120TB RAW per storage server). The only system in the market today with 10TB disk capacity
-Increased OLTP performance : about 4.8 million reads and about 4.3 million writes per second
-Featuring an Intel Skylake processor with 24 cores
-Ethernet network bandwidth has increased by 150 percent from 10 to 25 Gigabits per second
-Delivers in-memory performance from Shared Storage
-OEDA commandline interface
-Overall, Exadata X7 database applications can realize 20 to 40 percent improvement in performance for OLTP, analytics and mixed workloads.