All In on Exadata

Gavin Parish and Gurmeet Goindi joined Cris Pedregal and several dozen attendees for an informal chat about all matters related to Exadata hardware. The topics covered in the office hours are below -- so you can listen to this as a podcast as well, as most of the content is accessible without the visual aids. 00:37 Exadata hardware refresh model 03:07 How Exadata teams decides what goes into each release 05:21 Exadata X8 hardware overview 08:22 Why and when does a hardware component remain the same on a new Exadata release? 10:51 What’s the overhead of running a database with TDE compared to non-encrypted on Exadata X8-2? 12:28 X8 gives you 60% more performance and 40% higher capacity at the same price of X7 13:10 Overview of the new Exadata Storage Server X8-2 Extended (XT) 13:52 Why did Oracle create XT, a low cost Exadata Storage Server? 15:58 How did Oracle lower the costs for the Storage Server? 18:09 Exadata Storage Server X8-2 Extended (XT) manageability benefits 19:05 XT Performance 21:14 XT and backups 22:31 Exadata Storage Server X8-2 Extended (XT) 23:52 XT use in practice 24:54 10 years of Exadata hardware 31:10 Exadata components: how are they chosen for each generation? 32:45 Exadata components: the NVMe example 34:08 Exadata components: what about GPUs? 36:51 Exadata use of Oracle Enterprise Linux 6 versus OEL 7 40:14 Exadata X8-2 compared to Exadata X8-8 41:47 Exadata X8-8 signals Oracle commitment to technology leadership 43:08 Exadata is a foundational technology 44:16 Autonomous Database technology and Exadata AskTOM Office Hours offers free, monthly training and tips on how to make the most of Oracle Database, from Oracle product managers, developers and evangelists. https://asktom.oracle.com/ Oracle Developers portal: https://developer.oracle.com/ Sign up for an Oracle Cloud trial: https://cloud.oracle.com/en_US/tryit