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How to buy an Exadata V2

Friday, September 18. 2009

Just an important hint to all people interested in the Exadata V2 system: This system is a Oracle product. If you want to buy one, you have to talk with your friendly Oracle sales rep. We can tell you about all the wonders and niceties of the hardware, but everything else (especially prices): Call Oracle!

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in Sun/Oracle, The IT Business at 10:53 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)
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Pricing is given in a Sun/Oracle webcast
at http://www.sun.com/launch/2009-0915/index.jsp
at about 20:30 into the video you get some pricing.

The oracle system is preconfigured with all software and contains three building blocks (storage serve, compute server, infinaband switches).

The entry level price is $110,000, three components (one storage server and one compute server) - looks like a X4275 for the storage server. Hopefully it isn't crippled and has one or more F20 PCIe cards (Aura ZFS Hybrid Storage Pool Accelerator)

Weather the F20(s) is used exclusively for Oracle or normal ZFS in not clear. The video talks about specialize Oracle software designed to use flash, however the use of a flash ZFS cache ZIL and L2ARC sounds more likely.

IMHO I don't see why a cheaper "basic sun" system couldn't be built with a loaded X4275 a F20 PCIe card plus Oracle software.

My primary interest in all this is finding out if you could "swap out a Sun HBA" in an existing X4275 and replace it with an F20 as a "midlife" I/O performance kicker.

#1 Jon Strabala (Homepage) on 2009-09-18 17:59 (Reply)

Well at this writing the F20 is listed on Sun's product page.

The Exadata, was clearly using Linux, not Solaris, even from the original presentation.

It's just an all Oracle solution - ASM based - with an all Sun hardware solution, hastily slapped together and called the Exadata 2.

Allthough I'm sure it runs fine, yes, of course you can use Oracle with commodity hardware and stick in a ioFusion, Ramsan-10, or when they are released in Novembe, one of these F20.

Unfortunately, Oracle did crippled 11.2.0 at the last moment, the flash_cache option, which was working in beta, now, apparently only works on Exadata, in the release version.

Still flash cache, blah. Regular ASM and some flash can really kick your oltp in the pants.

#1.1 Robert Dupuy on 2009-10-02 22:06 (Reply)

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