Oracle Database Appliance Model Family

Introduction

In 2011, Oracle Introduced an entry level Engineered system known as Oracle Database Appliance (ODA). ODA is a pre-configured, highly available Oracle Database Engineered system. ODA system consists of hardware, software, storage and networking. The hardware configuration is designed to provide redundancy and protection against single points of failures in the system.

The Oracle Database Appliance saves time and money by simplifying deployment, maintenance, and support of high availability Database solutions.

ODA consists of two physical servers (Node 0 and Node 1), a storage shelf and optionally an additional storage shelf. The two independent physical servers are interconnected and direct attached to SAS and SSD storage.

ODA is basically a 2-node RAC cluster database system running Oracle Linux operating (OEL), Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, Oracle Grid Infrastructure (Clusterware and ASM). All these together provides the Oracle Database high availability running on ODA.

In 2016, Oracle added 3 new models to expand Oracle Database Appliance portfolio. These 3 new models are:

• Oracle Database Appliance X6-2S (single-instance database)
• Oracle Database Appliance X6-2M (single-instance database)
• Oracle Database Appliance X6-2L (single-instance database)

The High Available ODA x6-2 is now known as X6-2 HA which consists of 2 nodes and a storage shelf and optionally an additional storage shelf.

The Oracle Database Appliance X6-2 model family offers the lowest hardware price for an Oracle Engineered System. Combined with flexible Oracle Database software licensing, the Oracle Database Appliance X6-2 model family brings Oracle Engineered Systems to within reach of every organization.

In October 2017, Oracle announced Oracle Database Appliance X7-2 (Small, Medium and HA). ODA X7-2 comes with more computing resources compared with X6-2 Models.

• Oracle Database Appliance X7-2S (single-instance database)
• Oracle Database Appliance X7-2M (single-instance database)
• Oracle Database Appliance X7-2 HA 

Note: With ODA X7-2, looks like the ODA X7-2 Large configuration is discontinued.

Oracle Database Appliance X7-2 Small specification

• One server 
• 1 Intel Xeon processor, 10 Cores
• 192GB Physical memory expandable upto 384GB 
• Choice of 10GBase-T or 10/25 GbE SFP28 public networking
• 12.8TB NVMe raw storage

Oracle Database Appliance X7-2 Medium specification

• One server 
• 2 Intel Xeon processor, 36 Cores
• 384 GB Physical memory expandable upto 768GB 
• Choice of 10GBase-T or 10/25 GbE SFP28 public networking
• 12.8 TB NVMe raw storage with optional expansion to 51.2 TB NVMe raw storage

Oracle Database Appliance X7-2 HA specification

• 32 cores per server (72 cores in total for 2 servers)
• 384 GB physical memory per server expandable upto 1.5TB (768 GB memory in total for 2 servers)
• Storage Shelf
• High Capacity: 150 TB HDD raw capacity per shelf
• High Performance: 64 TB SDD raw capacity per shelf
• 3.2 TB raw capacity for redo log storage per shelf
• Choice of 10GBase-T or 10/25 GbE SFP28 public networking

The following picture shows the Oracle Database Appliance X6 and X7 Model Family Details

Conclusion

In this blog we have learned about Oracle Database Appliance X6 and X7 Model Family. With the new ODA model Small, Medium and Large, the Oracle Database Appliance X6-2 and X7-2 model family brings Oracle Engineered Systems to within reach of every organization.