Introducing Exadata X9M

Dramatically Faster, More Cost Effective, and Easier to Use

October 2021
Exadata Vision
Extreme Performance and Availability, Lowest Cost, Available Everywhere

Ideal Database Hardware

Scale-out, database optimized compute,
networking, and storage Available

Database Aware System Software On Premises

Unique algorithms vastly improve OLTP,
Analytics, and Consolidation Cloud@Customer

Automated Management Oracle Cloud

Fully automated and optimized end-to-end

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Exadata Superior Software Architecture Highlights

Fastest OLTP Fastest Analytics Best Consolidation

• Fastest OLTP I/O with • Unique Smart Scan • Unique Prioritization

scale-out storage, RDMA, automatically offloads data of latency sensitive or
Persistent Memory, and intensive SQL operations important workloads
fastest NVMe flash to storage through full stack
• Fastest scale-out with • Unique Smart Flash • Unique Workload Isolation
unique RDMA algorithms Cache and Storage Index of multiple tenants or
for inter-node cluster automatically accelerate workloads through full stack
coordination database I/O
• Fastest recovery from • Unique Columnarization
failed or sick components automatically converts
data to fast In-Memory
Columnar format in flash

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Exadata Superior OLTP Architecture - Persistent Memory

Database Servers
Database uses RDMA instead of I/O to read PMEM in Smart Storage
• Bypasses network and I/O software, interrupts, context switches
RoCE RDMA

Storage Servers
Storage servers transparently manage PMEM
• Hottest data automatically cached in PMEM, increasing effective capacity10x
• Automatic PMEM redundancy across multiple storage servers

Hot PMEM Speed of RDMA to PMEM for both database reads and commits

Warm FLASH
Result - 19µs IO latency from Database to PMEM in Storage
Cold
• 10X Faster than Flash

World’s Only Shared Persistent Memory Optimized for Database

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Thousands of Critical Deployments Since 2008
Financial Services, Telecoms, Healthcare, Retail, Public Sector, Travel, Manufacturing,
Professional Services, Consumer Goods, Education, Utilities, …

Best for ALL workloads 86% of Fortune Global 100 Run Exadata
• Petabyte Warehouses
• Super Critical Systems
• Financial Trading
• Process manufacturing
• E-commerce
• Packaged Applications
• SAP, Oracle, Siebel, PSFT, …
More than 60 Exadata Machines
• Database Consolidation
deployed in Viet Nam

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Exadata X9M
• Performance comparable to all in-memory
• With capacity, sharing, and cost benefits of shared storage

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Database Platform Leadership Since 2008
V1 V2 X2 X3 X4 X5 X6 X7 X8 X8M X9M

Sep 2008 Sep 2009 Sep 2010 Sep 2012 Nov 2013 Dec 2014 Apr 2016 Oct 2017 Apr 2019 Sep 2019 June 2021
Xeon E5430 Xeon E5540 Xeon X5670 Xeon E5-2690 E5-2697 v2 E5-2699 v3 E5-2699 v4 Xeon 8160 Xeon 8260 Xeon 8260 Xeon 8352 V1 – X9M
Harpertown Nehalem Westmere Sandy Bridge Ivy Bridge Haswell Broadwell Skylake Cascade Lake Cascade Lake Cascade Lake
Growth

64 64 96 128 192 288 352 384 384 384 512 8X

256 576 1152 2048 4096 6144 12 TB 12 TB 12 TB 12 TB 16TB 62 X

0 5.3 5.3 22.4 44.8 89.6 179.2 358 358 358 358 64 X

168 336 504 504 672 1344 1344 1680 2.35 PB 2.35 PB 3.8PB 22 X

20 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 100 100 5X

8 24 184 400 400 400 400 800 800 800 800 100 X

14 50 75 100 100 263 301 350 560 560 1000 80 X

.05 1 1.5 1.5 2.66 4.14 5.6 5.97 6.57 16 27.6 552 X
7 .
Worlds Fastest Database Machine, now even faster – Exadata X9M

Exadata X9M storage performance is comparable to in-memory

• With capacity, sharing, and cost benefits of shared storage

• 27.6 Million OLTP Read IOPS (8K IOs)
Each rack has up to
• 70% more than Exadata X8M
3.8 PB Raw Disk
• <19 microsecond OLTP IO latency
920 TB NVMe Flash
• Ultra fast log file writes to accelerate transactions 27 TB PMEM
• 1TB/sec Analytic Scan throughput
• 87% faster than Exadata X8M

Performance scales as more racks are added

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Exadata X9M: Extreme Performance Scale-out Database Platform

• Scale-Out 2 Socket Database Servers Database Server

• Latest 32-core Intel Ice Lake CPUs
• Up to 2TB Memory
• 8-socket database server for SMP workload
High-Capacity (HC) Storage

• Ultra-fast 100Gb/s RDMA over Converged

Ethernet (RoCE) Internal Fabric

• Scale-Out intelligent 2-Socket Storage Servers

• Latest 16-core Intel Ice Lake CPUs Extreme Flash (EF) Storage
• 1.5 TB Persistent Memory per storage server
• Three tiers of storage: PMem, NVMe Flash, HDD

Compute Capacity Storage Capacity

Each rack 1,216 DB Cores 576 Storage Cores Extended (XT) Storage
has up to... 38 TB Memory 27 TB PMem
920 TB NVMe Flash
3.8 PB Raw Disk

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Exadata X9M-2 Database Machine (changes from X8M-2 in red)

• Scale-Out 2 Socket Database Servers

2 Socket Database Server
• 33% more cores - latest 32-core Intel Ice Lake CPUs
• Increased memory options – 512 GB / 1024 GB / 2048 GB 64 cores per server
• Faster local disk – 3.84 TB NVMe 512 GB - 2 TB DRAM
• Additional client network flexibility High Capacity (HC) Storage

• 100Gb RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) Internal

fabric 216 TB disk capacity
25.6 TB PCIe NVMe Flash
• PCIe4.0, active-active, 2 x 100 Gb RoCE network interface 1.5 TB Persistent Memory
ports in Database and Storage Servers 32 cores for SQL offload
Extreme Flash (EF) Storage

• Scale-Out Intelligent 2-Socket Storage Servers

• Latest 16-core Intel Ice Lake CPUs 51.2 TB PCIe NVMe Flash
• Increased memory – 256 GB 1.5 TB Persistent Memory
32 cores for SQL offload
• 28% higher capacity – 18 TB Disk Drives
• 1.5 TB Persistent Memory per storage server Extended (XT) Storage
• 1.8x faster NVMe Flash – PCIe4.0
• Three tiers of storage: PMEM, NVMe, HDD
216 TB disk capacity
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 Exadata X9M Database Machine
Database Server Options

Exadata X9M-2 Database Server Exadata X9M-2 Eighth Rack Database Server Exadata X8M-8 Database Server
• 2 x 32-core Intel® Xeon® Ice Lake processors • 1 x 32-core Intel® Xeon® Ice Lake processors • 8 x 24-core Intel® Xeon® 8268 Cascade
• 512 GB DDR4 Memory • 384 GB DDR4 Memory Lake processors
(upgradeable to 2 TB) (upgradeable to 1 TB) • 3 TB DDR4 Memory
• 2 x 3.84 TB NVMe Flash drives • 2 x 3.84 TB NVMe Flash drives (upgradeable to 6 TB)
(upgradeable to 4 x 3.84 TB) (upgradeable to 4 x 3.84 TB) • 2 x 6.4 TB NVMe PCIe3.0 Flash cards
• 1 x dual-port QSFP28 100Gb/s RDMA • 1 x dual-port QSFP28 100Gb/s RDMA • 4 x dual-port QSFP28 100Gb/s RDMA
Network Fabric Adapter Network Fabric Adapter Network Fabric Adapter
• Client Connectivity: • Client Connectivity: • Client Connectivity:
• Up to 6 x 10/25 Gbs (SFP28) ethernet • Up to 4 x 10/25 Gbs (SFP28) ethernet • 8 x 10/25 Gb/s (SFP28) ethernet
• Up to 12 x 10 Gb/s (RJ45) ethernet • Up to 8 x 10 Gb/s (RJ45) ethernet • 8 x 10 Gb/s (RJ45) ethernet
• Combinations available • Combinations available

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Database Node Comparison (2-Socket)

Component X8M X9M Delta

Intel Xeon Scalable Processor family Cascade Lake–SP Ice Lake-SP
Cores (On-premises) 24 cores 32 cores +33%
DDR4 Memory Channels per socket 6x 2600 MT/s 8x 3200 MT/s +33%
Memory configuration options (2-Socket) 384/768/1536 GB 512/1024/2048 GB +33%
Memory configuration options (1-Socket) 384/768 GB 384/1024 GB -/+33%
RoCE Card (16-lane PCIe) Mellanox CX5 Mellanox CX5 1.8x
PCIe Gen 3 PCIe Gen 4 bandwidth

Local storage 4x or 8x 1.2TB 2x or 4x 3.84TB Similar useable

capacity,
SAS3 HDD PCIe Gen 4 NVMe higher
SSD performance

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Exadata X9M Database Machine
Storage Server Options

High Capacity Extreme Flash Extended Eighth Rack High Capacity

(HC) (EF) (XT) (HC)
• 2x 16-core Intel® Xeon® • 2x 16-core Intel® Xeon® • 1x 16-core Intel® Xeon® • 2x 16-core Intel® Xeon®
Ice Lake processors Ice Lake processors Ice Lake processor Ice Lake processors
• 256 GB DDR4 Memory • 256 GB DDR4 Memory • 96 GB DDR4 Memory • 256 GB DDR4 Memory
• 12x 128 GB Intel® Optane™ • 12x 128 GB Intel® Optane™ • 2x 240 GB M.2 SSD • 6x 128 GB Intel® Optane™
Persistent Memory Series 200 Persistent Memory Series 200 • 12x 18 TB 7200rpm hard disk Persistent Memory Series 200
• 2x 240 GB M.2 SSD • 2x 240 GB M.2 SSD drives • 2x 240 GB M.2 SSD
• 12x 18 TB 7200rpm hard disk • 8x 6.4 TB F640v3 NVMe • 1x dual-port QSFP28 100Gb/s • 6x 18 TB 7200rpm hard disk
drives PCIe4.0 Flash Cards RDMA Network Fabric drives
• 4x 6.4 TB F640v3 NVMe • 1x dual-port QSFP28 100Gb/s Adapter • 2x 6.4 TB F640v3 NVMe
PCIe4.0 Flash Cards RDMA Network Fabric PCIe4.0 Flash Cards
• 1x dual-port QSFP28 100Gb/s Adapter • 1x dual-port QSFP28 100Gb/s
RDMA Network Fabric RDMA Network Fabric
Adapter Adapter

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High Capacity (HC) Storage Cell Comparison

Component X8M X9M Delta

Intel Xeon Scalable Processor family Cascade Lake–SP Ice Lake-SP
Cores (On-premises) 16 cores 16 cores
HDD Capacity 168 TB (12x 14 TB) 216 TB (12x 18 TB) +28%
DDR4 Memory Channels per socket 6x 2600 MT/s 8x 3200 MT/s +33%
Memory configuration 192 GB (12x 16GB) 256 GB (16x 16GB) +33%
128 GB Intel Persistent Memory 12x 1st Gen 12x Series 200 Similar
128 GB Intel Persistent Memory 12x 1st Gen 6x Series 200 -50%
(Eighth rack)
Flash (6.4 TB, NVMe) PCIe Gen 3 PCIe Gen4 1.8x
bandwidth
RoCE Card (16-lane PCIe) Mellanox CX5 Mellanox CX5 1.8x
PCIe Gen 3 PCIe Gen 4 bandwidth
Boot drives (SSD, M.2 form factor) 2x 240 GB 2x 240 GB

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Exadata X9M-2 Extended (XT) Storage Server
16-core Ice Lake CPUs

Processors • 1 Sixteen-Core Ice Lake Intel® Xeon® Processor

DDR4 Memory • 96 GB (6x 16 GB) 3200 MT/s

• 12x 18 TB 3.5-inch 7200rpm SAS3 HDD (hot swappable)

Drives
• 2x 240 GB M.2 SSD (hot pluggable)

Disk Controller • Disk Controller HBA with 2 GB Cache – no battery

• 2x QSFP28 100G RDMA Ethernet Card Ports (PCIe 4.0) – both ports active
Network
• Embedded Gigabit Ethernet Ports for management connectivity

• 1x Ethernet port (ILOM)

Remote Management
• 1x Ethernet port (HOST)

• Redundant hot swappable power supplies and

Power Supplies
fans

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Exadata X9M-2 Extended (XT) Storage Server
Using purpose

✓ Exadata Extended (XT) Storage Servers are intended

provide lower-cost storage for infrequently accessed, older,
or regulatory data.
➢ XT storage servers help you to keep all your required data
online and available for queries such as:
• Historical data
• Images, BLOBs, contracts, and other large table-based
objects
• Compliance and regulatory data
• Local backups
➢ The XT storage servers can also provide storage for
development databases which have less stringent
performance requirements compared to production
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 Exadata X9M-2
Exadata Database Machine X9M-2 Storage Expansion Rack Examples

Storage Expansion

• Start with a Quarter Rack

• 4x Exadata X9M-2 High Capacity (HC) Storage Servers, or
4x Exadata X9M-2 Extreme Flash (EF) Storage Servers
• Add up to 15 more X9M-2 Storage Servers (max 18, 2RU each in size)
• Can mix Extreme Flash, High Capacity and Extended Storage Servers
• Maximum of 19 servers or 38 RU of servers per rack
• Elastic Configuration Tool (OECA) available to model performance and
environmental metrics and demonstrate multiple server configuration
possibilities
• Embedded Hardware
• 2x Cisco Nexus 9336C-FX2 Switch (Leaf)
• 36-port Managed QSFP28 (100GbE) switch
• 1x Cisco 9348 Switch (Admin)
• Redundant Power Distributions Units
• 1x Cisco Nexus 9336C-FX2 Switch (Spine)
• 36-port Managed QSFP28 (100GbE) switch
19 x HC 4 x HC Storage 19x EF Storage
Storage Servers Servers
Servers 18 x XT Storage
Servers
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Exadata X9M-2 Eighth Rack (ER) Expansion Options

• CPU Upgrade Kit for Exadata Database Machine X9M-2 Eighth Rack to Quarter Rack Database Server Upgrade
• Marketing Part Number 7603444
• Add the missing Intel® Xeon® Processors (1 per server)
• Both database servers need to be upgraded at the same time
• Single upgrade part includes all hardware for 2x DB Servers

• Memory Upgrade Kit for Exadata Database Machine X9M-2 Eighth Rack to Quarter Rack Database Server Upgrade
• Required if Eighth Rack Database Servers are 384GB Memory Config
• Marketing Part Number 7603980
• Add the missing 8x DIMMs (4 per server)
• Both database servers need to be upgraded at the same time
• Single upgrade part includes all hardware for 2x DB Servers

• Exadata Storage Server X9M-2 Eighth Rack High Capacity (HC) with 768 GB persistent memory with rail kit (for field
installation)
• Marketing Part Number 7603441
• Add Exadata X9M-2 Eighth Rack High Capacity (HC) Storage Server
• Minimum 1 server, maximum driven by rack power and space limits
• Each server adds 108TB Raw Disk Capacity and 12.8 TB Flash Cache

• Exadata X9M-2 High Capacity, Extreme Flash or Extended (standard) Storage Servers are also available for Eighth Rack

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Exadata X9M Elastically Scales with no Downtime
Start Small and Grow as your Needs Expand
Elastic Multi-Rack
Configurations
Grow by adding compute and storage Grow by connecting
servers as needed multiple racks together

Eighth Quarter Elastic Full

Rack Rack Configuration Rack

Quarter Rack Full Rack

Eighth Rack
Compute Compute
Compute
128 cores 512 cores
64 cores
1 TB DRAM1 4 TB DRAM1
768 GB DRAM1
Usable Storage2,3 Usable Storage2,3
Usable Storage2,3
192 TB disk or 898 TB disk or
96 TB disk
44 TB flash 206 TB flash

1 Default memory configuration

2 After allocating space for high-availability mirroring
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Exadata X9M RoCE Networking
RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) for Extreme Performance

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Exadata Uses RDMA for Extreme Performance

• RDMA is an integral part of the Exadata high-performance architecture enabling

• High throughput and low-CPU usage for large data transfers
• Unique Direct-to-Wire Protocol to deliver 3x faster inter-node OLTP cluster messaging
• Unique Persistent Memory Commit Accelerator reduces log write latency and improves OLTP
performance
• Unique RDMA protocol to coordinate transactions between nodes

• Exadata RoCE provides RDMA speed and reliability on Ethernet fabric

• 100Gb/s active-active bandwidth with X9M and PCIe4
• Zero packet loss messaging
• Prioritization of critical database messages
• Latest KVM based virtualization
• Secure Isolation of Storage Traffic

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Exadata X9M-2 RDMA Network Fabric Multi-rack

• Single RDMA Network Fabric Network across all connected racks

• Connect up to 12 Racks with no external switches

• Every leaf uplinked to every spine switch
• Leaf switches do not connect to other leaf switches, likewise spine switches do not connect with other
spine switches
• Exadata Database and Storage Server cabling unchanged
• Inter-rack cabling performed at installation time

• Database Machine racks do not include the third spine switch by default
• Need to install spine switch (Expansion Switch Kit) when inter-connecting multiple racks

• Need to configure inter-rack cables with appropriate lengths

• Copper or Optical depending on distance

• Refer to the Database Machine Owner’s Guide for exact port mappings

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Exadata X9M Client Networking
Client and Backup Network Details

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Exadata X9M Interoperability

• Exadata RoCE fabric is an internal cluster and storage network

• Client connectivity remains the same as X8M – connect directly from database nodes via 10GE or
25GE
• Other Engineered Systems such as PCA, ZDLRA cannot take advantage of RDMA to connect to
the database, therefore access to this network fabric is not required

• Exadata X9M and X8M can work together with previous InfiniBand based Exadata generations by
utilizing Data Guard

• ZDLRA X9M and Exadata X9M can interoperate with Exadata using the client network access

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External Connectivity for Exadata X9M-2 Database Workloads
NEW: Factory Installed Choice of Client Connectivity
[Factory Installed] [Field Installed] [Factory Installed]

Quad 10G Network Card

Dual 25G Network Card

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External Connectivity for Exadata X9M-2 Eighth Rack Database Workloads
NEW: Factory Installed Choice of Client Connectivity
[Factory Installed] [Factory Installed]

Quad 10G Network Card

Dual 25G Network Card

Not Available

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Introducing:
Exadata System Software: 21.2
Making everything easier with Exadata

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Exadata System Software Highlights since X8M launch

• Over 20 unique software features - improved performance for all workloads across
OLTP, analytics, consolidation, modern multi-model applications etc.
• Software Features include:
• Secure Fabric – Provides network isolation across tenants at 100Gb/s and with RDMA
support
• Smart Flash Log Writeback – Caches redo logs in flash to enable up to 250% faster
performance for Golden Gate log mining, log archiving and RMAN backup and restore

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 Optimized Smart Scan
A Improves scale for more complex queries and support for parallelism

Faster Decryption and Decompression Algorithms

B Allows data to be stored securely without impacting performance

Exadata Software Storage Index and Columnar Cache Persistence

C Ensures consistent performance for analytic workloads after
21.2 Highlights storage server maintenance

Smarter Management
D Enhanced Database alerting and faster software updates

Supports enhanced Oracle Database algorithms

E Oracle Machine Learning, Graph, Spatial, In-Memory, Blockchain Tables

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Introducing: Exadata Software Support for X9M Generation
New in Exadata 21.2
Database Server
• Oracle Exadata System Software release 21.2.0
introduces support for the Oracle Exadata
Database Machine X9M system family

High Capacity (HC) Storage

• Scale-Out 2 Socket Database Servers

• Ultra-fast 100Gb/s RDMA over Converged

Extreme Flash (EF) Storage

Ethernet (RoCE) Internal Fabric

Extended (XT) Storage

• Scale-Out intelligent 2-Socket Storage

Servers
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Introducing: Persistent Storage Index
New in Exadata 21.2

• Storage Indexes are automatically created summaries of table data kept in

Storage Server memory

• Used by DW & Analytic workloads to avoid work

• Persisting the Storage Index avoids rebuild after Unplanned & Planned* Storage Server

Storage Server downtime

• Consistent Performance before and after Storage Server or Exadata

Storage Software restart

M.2
SSD

* Exadata X7 and higher & DB 12.2 and higher

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Introducing: Persistent Columnar Cache
New in Exadata 21.2

• Columnar Cache extends In-Memory Column Store to Flash on Storage

Servers

• Reduces Database Server CPU utilization

• Increases effective In-Memory Capacity

• Columnar Cache data and metadata is persisted to Flash for restoration

during Storage Server startup

• Consistent Performance before and after Storage Server restart

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Introducing: ACFS IO Caching in Flash Cache
New in Exadata 21.2

• ACFS now writes to Cell Flash Cache, instead of hard drives, regardless of IO
size
• Smaller sequential writes coalesced into 1MB writes (eg Golden Gate trail
files)
• ACFS Read speed by up to 7x ACFS
• Automatically and transparently implemented with Exadata 21.2
• Works with all supported Oracle Database versions Storage Server
• Works with existing IORM plans
Before After

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Introducing: IORM Cluster Plan
New in Exadata 21.2

• Allocate Exadata Storage Server resources based on Grid Infrastructure Cluster

• Used with allocations, shares and limit resource assignment
• Allows for consolidation of resources at the cluster level rather than individual database or
consumer groups
• When used in conjunction with ASM Scoped Security, prioritize one Database Cluster over another in
consolidated environments, or ensure new database instances adhere to existing IO allocation
Sales Finance

RDBMS RDBMS

Cluster Plan
Sales: 75%
Finance: 25%

75% 25%

* Requires Exadata 21.2 and ASM Scoped Security enabled

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Introducing: Smart Scan Fast Decryption
New in Exadata 21.2 Before
transfer to IO buffer decrypt
• Smart scans on encrypted data require the use
of temporary staging buffers to allow for
decrypting data from IO buffer followed by disk Encrypted Data
Temporary
Buffer
filtering and projection
• Previously, temporary buffer copied back to data Decrypted Data

IO buffer for filtering and projection

Filter / projection Copy back to IO buffer

• Smart Scan Fast Decryption implements
processor cache friendly algorithms to use After
temporary buffer directly for filtering and transfer to IO buffer decrypt
projection

disk Temporary
Encrypted Data
• 2.4x faster decryption for smart scans in X9M Buffer
data

• Works with all currently supported Oracle

Database versions Filter / projection

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Introducing: Smart Scan Metadata Sharing
New in Exadata 21.2

• Sharing Smart Scan metadata information across Storage Servers increases

parallel query performance and storage scalability

• Works with all supported Oracle Database versions

• Works with traditional and modern workload types

• JSON and XML document queries Database
Instance 1
• Machine Learning Models Query
Parallel Metadata
• External tables Queries Cache

• Data mining models

Database
Instance 2

• Large Bloom filters

• Automatically and transparently implemented with Exadata 21.1

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Smarter Management
New in Exadata 21.2

• Oracle ASR Support for RoCE Network Fabric Switches – Includes a new monitoring component that
propagates switch alerts to Oracle ASR, enabling automated problem detection and resolution
• Configured using single command:
• python bootflash:scripts/asr/bin/asr set endpoint="ASR_endpoint"
• Also available on the Management Switch

• Software Updates for Management Switch – Manages firmware upgrades on the Management Switch
using existing Exadata software update utilities

• Faster Upgrades with ILOM Pre-Staging – Reduces individual server downtime during rolling updates to
database and storage servers by staging firmware in parallel with other server upgrade activities
• Over an hour saved per full rack

• Enhanced Database Server Alerting – Oracle Database and Grid Infrastructure incidents now visible in the
LIST ALERTHISTORY command of DBMCLI. Allows for quicker identification and resolution of infrastructure
incidents through a single, consolidated endpoint

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Exadata X9M Virtualization Enhancements

• Exadata X9M Enhancements for Virtualization

• 33% more CPU cores
Finance Cluster • Enables higher consolidation of virtual machines and database instances

Sales Cluster • All-flash Database Server local drives

• Previously hard disks
• Increases database server VM update and backup performance

• 33% higher memory capacity – up to 2TB per Database Server

• Enables higher consolidation
• Maximum VM memory allocation: 1,870 GB
• Single Virtual Machine or combined footprint of all virtual machines on database server
Marketing
Cluster

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Exadata X9M Virtualization

• Exadata X9M enhancements for Virtualization

• Increased core count
• 2x 32 Core CPUs
• Increased Performance of local drives
• 2x 3.84 TB NVMe Flash drives (upgradeable to 4x 3.84 TB)

• Virtual Machine Memory Allocation

• Minimum: 16GB per VM
• Maximum: 1,870 GB (with 2TB Memory Expansion)
• Single Virtual Machine or combined footprint of all virtual machines on database server

• Host Reserved Resources

• KVM host reserves 24GB + (6% total memory)
• Not available to guests
• CPUs allocated to host: 2 cores (4 vCPUs)
• Not available to guests

• Maximum Number of Guests per Host: 12

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Exadata and Exadata Cloud Manageability with EM 13.4

• Core existing EM Exadata manageability updated, works with X9M, X8 and below
• Guided discovery, ILOM and HALRT incidents, metrics, performance monitoring, navigation tree
• Exadata 21.2 software release and below
• New EMCLI support for Exadata discovery and previous generation target type conversion
• New support for Exadata IPv6 configuration
• MAA KPIs integrated as first class metrics (in EM 13.4 RU9)
• EM 13.4 Exadata Getting Started Guide updated
• https://docs.oracle.com/en/enterprise-manager/cloud-control/enterprise-manager-cloud-control/13.4/emxig/index.html
• Improved EM Exadata Cloud manageability
• New Exadata Cloud Target
• New Exadata Cloud Capacity Planning Report (in EM 13.4 RU2)
• New EM 13.4 Exadata Cloud document
• https://docs.oracle.com/en/enterprise-manager/cloud-control/enterprise-manager-cloud-control/13.4/emxcs/index.html

• See the following MOS Note for specific plug-in version and patching requirements:
• Exadata System Software and Hardware Versions Supported by Oracle Enterprise Manager Plug-ins (Doc ID 1626579.1)

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Exadata X9M
Conclusion

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World’s Fastest OLTP Database Machine
Now Even Faster

70% more OLTP IOs/sec than Exadata X8M

• 27.6 Million Read IOPS (8K IOs)
• PCIe 4.0 dual-port active-active 100 Gb RoCE network cards
Each rack has up to:
33% more cores for OLTP processing
• Latest 32-core Intel Ice Lake CPUs
1,216 DB cores
38TB Memory
Ultra-fast <19 microsecond OLTP IO latency using PMEM 3.8PB Raw Disk
920TB NVMe Flash
27TB PMEM

Performance Scales as More Racks are Added

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 Exadata X9M
Compared to On-premises Competitors

OLTP Read Latency OLTP Read Throughput

150 5x to 7.5x 30 3.6x to 50x

Better latency more IOPS

Millions of Read IOPS per rack

Microseconds

100 20

150
27.6

50 100 10

7.5
19 0.4
0 0
Pure Dell EMC Oracle Pure Dell EMC Oracle
Storage PowerMax Exadata Storage PowerMax Exadata
FlashArray//X90 8000 X9M FlashArray//X90 8000 X9M

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World’s Fastest Analytics Database Machine
Now Even Faster

87% faster Analytic Scan throughput

• 1TB/sec using Oracle unique new PCIe 4.0 Flash with x8 lanes
1TB/sec
33% more CPU cores for Parallel Analytics Throughput

80% faster RoCE network throughput for Analytics

• PCIe4.0 dual-port active-active 100 Gb RoCE network cards

Automatic conversion to ultra-fast columnar vector 87% higher

processing formats in flash cache
Smart Flash Cache
and RoCE throughput

Performance Scales as More Racks are Added

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Exadata X9M
Compared to On-premises Competitors

Analytics Throughput

1,100
6x to 80x
1,000
900
Faster
GB/second

800
700
600
1050
500
400
300
200
100 175
13
0
Pure Dell EMC Oracle
Storage PowerMax Exadata
FlashArray//X90 8000 X9M

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World’s Most Cost-Effective Database Machine
Now Even More Cost-Effective

28% more storage capacity – 18TB Disks replace 14TB

33% more CPU cores
• Enables higher consolidation

Up to 33% higher memory capacity - 2TB per DB server

• Enables higher consolidation, more OLTP caching, and faster
Analytic joins

All-flash DB Server local drives - previously hard disks

No Change in Price

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Exadata Extreme Performance Creates I.T. Economies of Scale

• Exadata is famous for running workloads faster

• Exadata extreme performance also enables businesses

Finance HR to spend less by doing more:
• Run more databases and users
• Run more workloads and data
Sales Support
• Run more analytics and transactions

Call Supply
Center Chain • Or run same workloads using less hardware to spend
less

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Exadata + Recovery Appliance: World’s Best
World’s Best Database Machine + World’s Best Data Protection Appliance

• Exadata runs the most Business Critical Databases

• Recovery Appliance offers World’s Best Database Protection
• Exadata & RA Combo meets the strictest SLA requirements
for performance and HA

• Ideal for Cloud-Scale DBaaS + DPaaS

• Standardize DB deployment and backup configuration
across the enterprise

• Built by same development organization

• Common Hardware & Software Framework
• Product features and best practices validated jointly by
Exadata and RA teams

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