Sunday, May 29, 2016

Exadata Database Machine Administration

What is Exadata ?


  • Exadata is combination of hardware(server racks) and software(cellsrv and Oracle dbs) which provides an enhanced platform to run the Oracle Database. 
  • It includes server, storage, network switch, PDU, KVM, storage software, Oracle software and Infiniband switches to connect the storage with database server in single box. 


  • In short it contains everything in single box, only we have to provide power and network from outside. 
  • KVM does not exists from X3-2 version.

Exadata Features



Some of the major features of exadata are as follows:


1. Smart Scan / Offloading
2. Storage Index
3. Hybrid Columnar Compression (HCC)
4. Smart Flash Cache
5. IORM 





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