Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Exadata - version compare sheet

Just comparing the hardware & software performances of exadata 3 versions:

EXADATA - VERSION COMPARE SHEET
Components
V2 Full Rack
X2-2 Full Rack
X3-2 Full Rack
Database Servers
8 x Sun Fire x4170 1U
8 x Sun Fire x4170 M2 1U
8 x Sun Fire
Database CPUs
Xeon E5540 quad core 2.53GHz
Xeon X5670 six cores 2.93GHz
 Xeon® E5-2690 Processors (2.9 GHz)
Database Cores
64
96
128
Database RAM
576GB (72 GB each)
768GB (96 GB each)
1TB (128 GB each) (expandable to 256GB each)
Storage Cells
14 x SunFire X4275
14 x SunFire X4270 M2
14
Storage Cell CPUs
Xeon E5540 quad core 2.53GHz
Xeon L5640 six cores 2.26GHz
 Xeon E5-2630L six cores (2.0Ghz)
Storage Cells CPU Cores
112
168
168
IO Performance & Capacity
15K RPM 600GB SAS or 2TB SATA 7.2K RPM disks
15K RPM 600GB SAS (HP model – high performance) or 2TB/3TB SAS 7.2K RPM disks (HC model – high capacity). Note that 2TB SAS are the same old 2 or 3 TB drives with new SAS electronics.
 10,000 RPM Disks
Flash Cache
5.3TB
5.3TB
22.4TB
InfiniBand Switches
QDR 40Gbit/s wire
QDR 40Gbit/s wire
QDR 40Gbit/s wire
Database Servers OS
Oracle Linux only
Oracle Linux (possible Solaris later, still unclear)
Oracle Linux / Solaris
Maximum Data Load Rate
12TB/hour
12TB/hour
16TB/hour
Disk Data Capacity (Raw)
100 TB (HP Disks)
100 TB (HP Disks)
100 TB (HP Disks)
504 TB (HC Disks)
504 TB (HC Disks)
504 TB (HC Disks)
Disk Data Capacity (Usable)
45 TB (HP Disks)
45 TB (HP Disks)
45 TB (HP Disks)
224 TB (HC Disks)
224 TB (HC Disks)
224 TB (HC Disks)
Maximum Disk bandwidth
25 GB/s (HP Disks)
25 GB/s (HP Disks)
25 GB/s (HP Disks)
18 GB/s (HC Disks)
18 GB/s (HC Disks)
18 GB/s (HC Disks)





Regards
Saurabh