Oracle Delivers Exadata Database Machine X5-8

Available, the Oracle International Corporation ‘s Exadata Database Machine X5-8 is the latest in the X5 family of engineered systems.

Exadata integrates hardware and software to deliver the highest performance database deployments at the lowest cost. Each Exadata X5-8 system offers up to 576 CPU cores, more than 1.3PB of disk storage or 180TB of fast PCIe flash, and up to 24TB of memory.

Exadata X5-8 is for in-memory databases, large data warehouses, or demanding OLTP workloads. The high compute, storage and memory capacity is designed for large-scale private cloud database initiatives, enabling large numbers of databases with varied workloads to be consolidated onto a single Exadata system, resulting in reduced operational and management costs.

“Oracle Exadata X5-8 is an ideal platform for database cloud deployments as well as in-memory analytics, OLTP and mixed workloads,” said Juan Loaiza, SVP, systems technology, Oracle. “For the last several years, Oracle Exadata has been the platform of choice for running mission critical Oracle databases at thousands of customers, and X5-8 extends this value proposition.“

Key features of hardware release include:

• New database server: X5-8 updates the eight-socket database servers to use the latest and fastest eighteen-core Intel E7-8895 v3 processors, for a total of 144 cores per database server. The extra cores and updated architecture increase performance up to 25%.

• Double storage server capacity: High capacity storage servers included in X5-8 Exadata Database Machines use 8TB SAS-3 disk drives, doubling storage capacity over the prior X4-8 generation.

The Exadata systems feature software capabilities that accelerate database performance and reduce cost.

The Exadata X5-8 ships with Exadata software release (12.1.2.2.0) that provides:

• IPv6 support for Ethernet networks

• Simpler management and better security using ExaCLI

• Improved Exastorage statistics in AWR reports

• Reverse offload improvements

• Robustness and availability improvements

Exadata X5-8 is the companion model to Exadata X5-2 and incorporates the same storage and networking capabilities of Exadata X5-2. Storage and compute can be elastically configured and expanded one server at a time to provide granular on-demand expansion at a lower cost. Elastic configurations enable customized Exadata Database Machines, such as Database In-Memory optimized systems or all-flash OLTP systems. Capacity-on-Demand pricing of the database software and the availability of Oracle VM virtualization enable additional flexibility, security and savings. Additionally, the Exadata software supports previous-generation Exadata hardware systems and also supports both company’s Database 12c and Database 11g Release 2 databases.

The Exadata systems provide customers with a cost-effective database consolidation platform delivered within their enterprise or in the Oracle Cloud. The combination of both on-premises and public cloud capabilities provides enterprises with the maximum flexibility in where to develop and run production database workloads all managed through a single pane of glass with company’s Enterprise Manager.