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Oracle Exadata X8 Family overview

September 2019 Oracle announced Oracle Database Appliance X8-2 (Small, Medium and HA). ODA X8-2 comes with more computing resources compared with X7-2 Models.

Let's take a quick look at few benefits of ODA followed by the technical specification on ODA X8-2 Small/Medium and HA.

Oracle Database Appliance is an Engineered System. Software, server, storage, and networking, all co-engineered and optimized to run Oracle Database and applications.


Benefits of Oracle Database Appliance (ODA):
  1. Software, server, storage, and networking engineered and optimized to run Oracle Database and applications.
  2. Supports Oracle Database Standard Edition, Standard Edition One, Standard Edition 2, and Enterprise Edition.
  3. Optimized for Cloud
  4. Capacity on Demand Licensing - Reduced Cost
  5. Ease of deployment, patching, management, and support
  6. Increased performance and reliability with NVMe flash storage
  7. Reliable hardware architecture with redundant power, cooling, networking, and storage
  8. Browser User Interface (BUI)


In this article we will compare the technical specifications of ODA X8-2 model family (Small, Medium and HA). This comparison table comes handy when you want to quickly take a look at the resources available for a given model.

 
For more information on the technical specification loot at the ODA X8-2 HA and Small/Medium Data Sheet at:



Component
ODA X8-2 Small
ODA X8-2 Medium
ODA X8-2 HA
Database Server
1
1
2
Storage Shelf

NA

NA

1 4U DE3-24C Storage Shelf per System
Optional Second Storage Shelf for Expansion
Rack Size
1 2RU Server
1 2RU Server
2 2RU Servers & 1 4U Storage Shelf
Processor
One 16-core Intel Xeon Gold 5218
Two 16-core Intel Xeon Gold 5218
Two 16-core Intel Xeon Gold 5218 Per Server
Physical Memory

192 GB
Expandable to 384 GB
384 GB
Expandable to 768 GB
384 GB
Expandable to 768 GB per server
Storage

Two 6.4 TB NVMe SSDs
12.8 TB (raw)
Base: Two 6.4 TB NVMe SSDs
12.8 TB (raw)
Base: Six 7.68 TB SSDs
46 TB (raw)
Storage Expansion
Not expandable
Expandable up to 76.8 TB (raw)
Expandable up to 369 TB SSD or up to 92 TB SSD / 504 TB HDD (Raw)
Network

4 x 10GBase-T ports (RJ45) expandable up to 12 x 10GBase-T ports or
2 x 10/25 GbE ports (SFP28) expandable up to 6 x 10/25 GbE ports
4 x 10GBase-T ports (RJ45) expandable up to 12 x 10GBase-T ports or
2 x 10/25 GbE ports (SFP28) expandable up to 6 x 10/25 GbE ports
4 x 10GBase-T ports (RJ45) expandable up to 12 x 10GBase-T ports or
2 x 10/25 GbE ports (SFP28) expandable up to 6 x 10/25 GbE ports
Oracle Database


Oracle Database 18c/19c EE & SE 2
Oracle Database 12c R1/R2 EE & SE 2
Oracle Database 11g R2 EE, SE & SE 1
Oracle Database 18c/19c EE & SE 2
Oracle Database 12c R1/R2 EE & SE 2
Oracle Database 11g R2 EE, SE & SE 1
Oracle Database 18c/19c EE & SE 2
Oracle Database 12c R1/R2 EE & SE 2
Oracle Database 11g R2 EE, SE & SE 1
Database Deployment
Single Instance
Single Instance
Single Instance, RAC & RAC One node
Virtualization
Oracle Linux KVM
Oracle Linux KVM
Oracle VM & Oracle Linux KVM
Operating System
Oracle Linux
Oracle Linux
Oracle Linux
 

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