Comments on: Oracle Exadata Delivery Day

By: Eric Guyer

Eric Guyer — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:56:56 +0000

Yep, that’s exactly what I mean with regards to comparing Exadata to IBM Power.

By: osborne

osborne — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:09:40 +0000

List price as of this writing on a quarter rack is $300K (hardware). That’s with 72 TB raw disk (SAS) and over 1 TB of flash cache. Of course the software is another matter. The software on the database nodes is standard Oracle – so you may be able to consolidate licenses you already own on to the platform. The storage software is licensed by the disk drive and the list price is currently $10K per drive. There are 36 drives in a quarter rack, so the list price for the storage software on that configuration is $360K.

Here’s a link to the official pricing doc:

http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/exadata-pricelist.pdf

In many cases it appears that consolidation of multiple databases on to the platform can make economic sense due to the raw power of the system.

I will certainly be posting something on the HCC stuff as time permits.

Kerry

By: maclean

maclean — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:39:03 +0000

I’m guessing how much does this machine cost
Would you like to write an article about hybrid columnar compression in real Exdata env?

By: osborne

osborne — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:05:30 +0000

Hi Eric,

I expect we will be doing a fair amount of benchmarking on our system and I will be posting info about it as time permits. I’m not sure what you mean by comparing it to IBM PowerVM though. Do you mean comparing it to Oracle running on a large P series box using PowerVM to manage resource usage ala “instance caging”?

Kerry

By: Eric Guyer

Eric Guyer — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:51:51 +0000

I’m interested in the results of your Exadata testing! There isn’t much info about its stability, performance, etc, in real-world environments. Specifically, I’m interested in how Exadata compares to IBM PowerVM capabilities in consolidating database workloads and supporting high resource utilization.

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Thu, 27 May 2010 13:30:20 +0000

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By: Walter

Walter — Wed, 26 May 2010 16:17:12 +0000

>>It’s probably a sad reflection on how geeky we are ..

LOL.. When i read the first couple of lines I was thinking the same.

By: Michael Fontana

Michael Fontana — Wed, 26 May 2010 14:36:49 +0000

As a huge Oracle fan and an Oracle consultant, this is indeed exciting. Adding in that I am a world-class Wierd Al Yankovic fan makes it doubly disappointing that I will miss the grand event.

I am sure it will be a fun time for all!