X3-2 hardware as follows
Try to understand each hardware component before going in detail about EXADATA
x3-2 Half Rack
x3-2 consists of pair of Skinnier sun server x3-2 boxes (formerly known as Sun Fire x4170 M3) with Xeon E5-2690 processor
4 Database Servers Oracle Linux 5.8 x3-2 Half Rack
X3-2 Node in the database appliance has 2 x 8 core Intel Xeon E5-2690 processor
256 GB RAM per database server
4 x 300 GB 10,000 RPM Disks
2 x QDR (40 Gb/sec) ports
Infiniband Switches
4 x 1 Gb Ethernet ports (copper)
2 x 10 Gb Ethernet Ports (optical)
7 Exadata Storage Servers x3-2 Half Rack
Each storage has Four 2.5 inch 200 GB SAS Solid state disks ( for database redo logs )
In total 7 x 4 = 28 PCI flash cards with 11.2 TB exadata Smart Flash Cache
Each storage Server consists of 12 x 2.5 inch 600 GB SAS-2 hard drives
7.2 TB of raw capacity high performance disks
84 cpu for sql processing #
Infiniband Switches
3 x 36 Port QDR (40 Gb/sec) Infiniband Switches
Reference:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/exadata/exadata-dbmachine-x4-2-ds-2076448.pdf
--Nikhil Tatineni--
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