HP Oracle Exadata Storage Server Data Sheet
Building Scalable Storage Grids
Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Servers can be installed in to a standard 19-inch rack and are connected to database servers via InfiniBand. Exadata Storage Servers have dual 40 Gigabit InfiniBand links that provide connectivity many times faster than traditional storage or server networks. Further, Oracle’s interconnect protocol uses direct data placement to ensure very low CPU overhead by directly moving data from the wire to database buffers with no extra data copies.
Exadata Storage Servers are architected to scale-out easily. To achieve higher performance and greater storage capacity, additional Exadata Storage Servers are added to the configuration. This, combined with faster InfiniBand interconnect, Exadata Smart Flash Cache and the reduction of data transferred due to offload processing, yields very large performance improvements. A 10x improvement in query performance compared to traditional database storage architectures is common, with much greater improvement possible.
Enterprise Ready
The Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server has complete redundancy built in to support the demands of mission critical applications. Each Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server has dual port InfiniBand connections and dual-redundant, hot-swappable power supplies for high availability. Automatic Storage Management, a feature of Oracle Database 11g, provides disk mirroring. Hot swappable Exadata disks ensure the database can tolerate disk drive failure. In addition, data is mirrored across storage servers to ensure that storage server failure will not cause loss of data, or inhibit data accessibility.
The Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g System Monitoring Plug-in for the Oracle Exadata Storage Server delivers comprehensive availability, performance, and configuration information for the Exadata environment. Using Enterprise Manager, administrators can perform proactive monitoring and detailed configuration analysis of the Exadata Storage Servers
Software from Oracle, Hardware from Sun
The Exadata product builds upon years of Oracle and Sun jointly solving customers’ business and technical challenges. The hardware technology and support services for the Exadata Storage Server are provided by Sun and the Exadata Storage Server Software, which imparts database intelligence to the storage and tightly integrated with the Oracle Database, is provided by Oracle. By combining leading, industry-standard storage hardware from Sun with the intelligent Oracle Exadata Storage Server Software, the Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server delivers the highest levels of performance across storage hardware and software. The complete solution is backed by Oracle Support as the single point of accountability for all support needs.
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