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INTERNAL Master Note for Exadata Database Machine Hardware Support
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- Exadata Database Machine X2-8
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INTERNAL Master reference page for Hardware support team for Exadata Database Machine V2, X2-2 and X2-8.
Oracle Confidential (PARTNER). Do not distribute to customers.
Reason: Exadata internal only; not Sun partner supported
Applies to:
Oracle Database Products > Exadata > Database Machine
Sun Microsystems > Specialized Systems > Database Systems
Exadata Database Machine X2-8 - Version Not Applicable and later
Exadata Database Machine V2 - Version Not Applicable and later
Exadata Database Machine X2-2 Hardware - Version Not Applicable and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.
Purpose
This document contains the Exadata Database Machine V2, X2-2 and X2-8 Product Page for Hardware support.
Scope
This Master note only covers Oracle Sun based hardware versions supported directly by Oracle. For support of Oracle Exadata Database Machine V1 based on HP hardware, please contact the GCS EEST team which interfaces with the Hub that receives contracted support from HP for those units.
For Exadata Software assistance, refer to Internal Master Note 1274721.1
Details
Technical Support Methods:
- Email:
- Forum (support_exadata_hw_ww)
- Beehive IM conferences:
- Exadata Hardware Technical Support: EV2-HW or X64-ALL
- Exadata Hardware CTC Assistance: X64-CTC
- Exadata Software Triage Support: GCS_EEST
Overview
The following types of Exadata Database Machine are available:
- Exadata Database Machine Full Rack EX2-2, EX2-8
- Exadata Database Machine Half Rack EX2-2
- Exadata Database Machine Quarter Rack EX2-2
- Exadata Storage Expansion Racks (Full, Half or Quarter configurations)
- Exadata Storage Servers (standalone single-units to add on in separate customer-supplied rack)
There are minimal options to vary this:
- 2 options for storage cell disks - 600GB High Performance, or 2TB High Capacity
- 4 options for power distribution units (PDU's) for different country/region needs (Single-phase or 3-phase; Low-voltage or High-voltage)
- Customer supplied option to swap Cisco switch with another 1U 48-port equivalent replacement of their own make/model
- Exadata Database Machine Memory Expansion Kits for EX2-2 (upgrade for DB nodes to 144GB)
- Upgrade Kits for Quarter-to-Half, and Half-to-Full for enlarging existing EX2-2 rack capacities with add-on servers (and IB switch as necessary)
EOL:
- V2 - March 16, 2010 - Last Order date for Sun Oracle Database Machine Basic System (single DB node, single IB switch, single Storage Cell)
- V2 - September 19, 2010 - Last Ship Date based for Full, Half and Quarter Racks based on Sun Fire X4170 and X4275 servers
- V2 - September 19, 2015 - Premier Support ends
- X2-2 / X2-8 - TBD
Overview:
All Oracle® Exadata Database Machine's are Engineered Systems with pre-packaged configurations of Oracle Sun x64 Servers, Database and ASM storage optimizations, pre-installed including cabling into an Oracle Sun Rack II and branded with Oracle/Sun Exadata decals. These Engineered Systems are available in the following configurations:
X2-8 Full Rack:
The Exadata Database Machine X2-8 consists of the following major components:
- 2 Oracle Sun Fire X4800 Oracle Database Servers
- 14 Exadata Storage Servers (Oracle Sun Fire X4270 M2)
- 3 Sun Datacenter 36-port Managed QDR InfiniBand switches (NanoMagnum2)
- 1 48-port Ethernet switch (Cisco 4948 or CU-supplied)
- 2 Redundant 22kVA Single Phase or 24 kVA Three Phase PDUs (High Voltage or Low Voltage)
Due to only 2 Database Servers limiting cluster redundancy, the X2-8 is not available in configurations smaller than a Full Rack.
X2-2 Full Rack:
The Exadata Database Machine X2-2 consists of the following major components:
X2-2 Half Rack:
The Exadata Database Machine X2-2 consists of the following major components:
X2-2 Quarter Rack:
The Exadata Database Machine X2-2 consists of the following major components:
Storage Expansion Racks:
The Exadata Database Machine Storage Expansion Racks consist of the following major component configurations:
- Exadata Storage Servers (Sun Fire X4270 M2) with High Capacity (2TB SAS) disks only
- 18 Full Rack
- 9 Half Rack
- 4 Quarter Rack
- Sun Datacenter 36-port Managed QDR InfiniBand switches (NanoMagnum2)
- 3 Full and Half Rack
- 2 Quarter Rack
- 1 48-port Ethernet switch (Cisco 4948 or CU-supplied)
- Keyboard, Video, Mouse (KVM) hardware (Avocent)
- 2 Redundant 15 kVA PDUs (Single Phase or Three Phase, High Voltage or Low Voltage)
Storage Server (Standalone):
The Exadata Database Machine Storage Server can be purchased as a standalone unit for adding single unit level storage capacity to an existing Exadata Database Machine. The customer must supply their own rack or purchase a new one to install the standalone unit in, and place it alongside the Exadata it will be connecting to via InfiniBand. These can be added in any number of increments. For convenience of larger expansion, use the Storage Expansion Racks. Refer to the section below for component specifics.
Sun Oracle Database Machine Basic System:
The Sun Oracle Database Machine Basic System consists of the following major components:
- 1 Sun Fire X4170 Oracle Database Servers
- 1 Exadata Storage Servers based on Sun Fire X4275
- 1 Sun Datacenter 36-port Managed QDR InfiniBand switch (NanoMagnum2)
- Rack is to be supplied by the Customer
This option is EOL and no longer sold and available. Existing units are still supported for the existing 3 year warranty.
The following are the detailed component overview for the server building blocks used in the Exadata Database Machine rack configurations:
X2-8 with Sun Fire X4800 Oracle Database Server:
Each database server is a component of the larger Machine and consists of the following major components:
- 8 Intel Xeon X7560 Eight-Core Dual-Thread Processors (2.26 GHz)
- 1TB (128x 8GB) DDR3 RAM
- 8 300GB 10K RPM SAS disks pre-configured in 2 RAID 1 volumes and 1 RAID 5 volume with 1 hot-spare
- Disk controller HBA with 512MB battery-backed write cache (LSI Niwot)
- 4 Dual-port QDR (40Gb/s) InfiniBand Host Channel Adapter (HCA) Express Modules (qMirage EM)
- 2 Network Expansion Modules each with:
- 4x 1 Gigabit Ethernet ports (Intel Kawela)
- 4x 10 Gigabit SFP+ ports (Intel Niantic)
- 10 GbE SFP+ Transceivers, uplink cables and end switches are to be supplied/ordered separately by the Customer
- 1 Ethernet port for Sun Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) for remote management
- Oracle Enterprise Linux and Solaris 11 Express pre-installed with dual-boot
X2-2 with Sun Fire X4170 M2 Oracle Database Server:
Each database server is a component of the larger Machine and consists of the following major components:
- 2 Intel Xeon X5670 Six-Core processors (2.93 GHz)
- 96GB or 144GB DDR3 RAM (Base configuration is 12x 8GB DIMMs. Memory Expansion kit provides an additional 6x 8GB DIMMs)
- 4 300GB 10K RPM SAS disks pre-configured in 1 RAID 5 volume with 1 hot-spare (11.2.2.2.x or earlier), or 1 RAID 1 volume with 2 RAID 0 volumes (11.2.2.3.x or later).
- Disk controller HBA with 512 MB battery-backed write cache (LSI Niwot)
- Dual-port QDR (40Gb/s) InfiniBand Host Channel Adapter (HCA) (qMirage CX2)
- Dual-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ ports (Intel Niantic)
- 10 GbE SFP+ Transceivers, uplink cables and end switches are to be supplied/ordered separately by the Customer
- 4 embedded Gigabit Ethernet ports (Intel Kawela)
- 1 Ethernet port for Sun Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) for remote management
- Oracle Enterprise Linux and Solaris 11 Express pre-installed with dual-boot
Exadata Storage Server:
Each Storage Server (also known as Storage Cell) is a component of the larger Machine, in addition to being available standalone as an add-on for extra storage. The Storage Cell is based on Sun Fire X4270 M2 consisting of the following major components:
- 2 Intel Xeon L5640 Six-Core processors (2.27 GHz)
- 24GB DDR3 RAM
- 12 x 600GB 15 K RPM High Performance SAS disks or 12 x 2TB 7.2 K RPM High Capacity SAS disks
- 4 Sun Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe Cards (Aura)
- Disk controller HBA with 512MB battery-backed write cache (LSI Niwot)
- Dual-port QDR (40Gb/s) InfiniBand Host Channel Adapter (HCA) (qMirage CX2)
- 1 4GB USB Flash Drive with OS recovery files pre-installed in internal USB port
- 1 embedded Gigabit Ethernet ports (Intel Kawela)
- 1 Ethernet port for ILOM for remote management
- Oracle Enterprise Linux pre-installed
- Oracle Exadata Storage Server Software pre-installed
X2-2 (V2) with Sun Fire X4170 Oracle Database Server:
Each database server is a component of the larger Machine and consists of the following major components:
- 2 Intel Xeon E5540 Quad-Core processors (2.53 GHz)
- 72 GB DDR3 RAM
- 4 x 146GB 10K RPM SAS disks pre-configured in 1 RAID 5 volume with 1 hot-spare
- Disk controller HBA with 512MB battery-backed write cache (Niwot)
- Dual-port QDR (40Gb/s) InfiniBand Host Channel Adapter (HCA) (qFalcon CX)
- 4 embedded Gigabit Ethernet ports (Intel Zoar)
- 1 Ethernet port for Sun Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) for remote management
- Oracle Enterprise Linux pre-installed
X2-2 (V2) Exadata Storage Server with Sun Fire X4275 Server:
Each Storage Server cell is a component of the larger Machine, in addition to being available standalone as an add-on for extra storage. The Storage Cell based on Sun Fire X4275 consists of the following major components:
- 2 Intel Xeon E5540 Quad-Core processors (2.53 GHz)
- 24GB DDR3 RAM
- 12 x 600GB 15 K RPM SAS disks or 12 x 2TB 7.2 K RPM SATA disks
- 4 Sun Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe Cards (Aura)
- Disk controller HBA with 512 MB battery-backed write cache (LSI Niwot)
- Dual-port QDR (40Gb/s) InfiniBand Host Channel Adapter (HCA) (qFalcon CX)
- 1 4GB USB Flash Drive with OS recovery files pre-installed in internal USB port
- 1 embedded Gigabit Ethernet ports (Intel Zoar)
- 1 Ethernet port for ILOM for remote management
- Oracle Enterprise Linux pre-installed
- Oracle Exadata Storage Server Software pre-installed
Note: Exadata Database Machine hardware does not include any Oracle software licences. Appropriate licensing of the Oracle software is required and purchased separate when Exadata Database Machine is used as a database server. Oracle Exadata Storage Server Software must be licensed for all Exadata Storage Servers used in Sun Oracle Database Machine. For licensing details, refer to the
Exadata Sales FAQ.
Documentation
No Exadata docs are posted externally on OTN due to Oracle confidentiality requirements. Customer's receive the docs pre-installed on the Exadata as part of the Exadata software image.
All released versions are available here for Internal-Use only or to be given to Customers as Need-to-Know only if they are approved by the local Oracle sales consultant if purchasing and is required for site planning and installation purposes.
| Description | Part Number | Format | Notes |
|---|
| Oracle's Exadata Database Machine Documentation |
E13877 (complete set) |
HTML & PDF |
Includes Owner's Guide (E13874), ASR Quick Install Guide (E23333) and Software User's Guide (E13861).
The Owner's Guide is primarily HW focused and contains all the previously released Sun documentation material. |
| Oracle/Sun Rack II Documentation |
Various |
HTML & PDF |
Includes Rack User's Guide, Power Distribution Unit User's Guide, Install Guide etc. |
| LSI MegaRAID User's Guide |
SG(X)-SAS6-R-INT-Z & SG(X)-SAS6-R-REM-Z |
Latest available user guide docs are here. |
Firmware and Utilities are built-in. Do not download from LSI. |
| Avocent KVM Documentation |
Various |
MergePoint Unity Install and Software User Guide
MergePoint Unity Quick Install Guide (2-page connections/port overview only) |
Use this website to find more current manuals or alternative language manuals for MergePoint Unity Switch (Model MPU4032DAC). |
| Cisco Catalyst 4948 Switch Documentation |
Various |
Configuration Guide in html/pdf |
Links to other guides |
| EIS Install Checklist |
Latest revision |
PDF |
Owner's Guide - Site Planning Checklist Appendix in PDF Forms . |
| Sun/Oracle HW/ACS Hand-off Installation Checklist |
v1.0 |
OpenOffice & Excel |
Distributed by Install Coordinators. |
| Oracle HW De-Installation Engineer Checklist |
v0.2 |
Excel |
Distributed by Install Co-ordinators for Buy&Try returns |
| Oracle HW Upgrade Engineer Checklist |
v1.0 |
Excel |
Distributed by Install Co-ordinators for EIS install of purchased upgrade kits |
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