Oracle’s x86 Servers for

the Enterprise

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x86 Systems
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Investment in Innovation and Integration

$5.1
$4.8
Sun Microsystems $4.5 $4.5 $4.5
Acquisition
$3.1
$38 BILLION IN
$1.5
$1.9
$2.1
$2.6 $2.6
R&D SINCE 2004
$1.3
AND $23 BILLION
FY04 FY05 FY06 FY07 FY08 FY09 FY10 FY11 FY12 FY13 FY14 FY15
SINCE 2010
$ (Billions)

Figures in GAAP

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Oracle’s x86 Systems Strategy and Focus
Most Secure Infrastructure for the Enterprise
• Design secure best-of-breed building blocks at the hardware, operating
system, storage, and database layers

• Enable maximum performance and optimization by delivering these

building blocks for Oracle’s Engineered Systems

• Use these products as underlying secure infrastructure in the cloud

• Offer disaggregated components to use as secure building blocks for a

“build your own” strategy

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 Complete
Deployment Choice

Same Standards
ON-PREMISES Same Products PUBLIC CLOUD
Unified Management

Move Workloads Between On-Premises and Public Cloud

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Oracle‘s x86 Differentiation

• Engineered for security, reliability, and performance

• Engineered for enterprise software

• Engineered for efficient cloud deployments, both

public and private

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Security must be “built in, not bolted on”
Oracle’s Layered Approach to Building Secure Systems
Ultra secure operating systems that default to
Secure Oracle Operating Systems highest levels of security

Advanced auditing, logging, and role-based

Advanced Security Features Built-In access control enhances security

Secure Out of the Box Prevents inadvertent security exposure

Entire manufacturing process controlled by

Manufacturing Oversight Oracle. Made in USA.

Motherboard, BIOS, and service processor

Complete In-House HW Design firmware designed 100 percent by Oracle
engineers
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Increased Reliability Drives Increased Profitability

$7,900/min savings
30% increase in uptime running Oracle’s x86
versus third-party x86*

* Based on service requests filed with Oracle Support

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Oracle’s x86 Strategy for Engineering Extreme Reliability
Differentiated from Commodity Servers at Hardware, Firmware, and Software Layers
Unique features in Oracle
Linux and Oracle Solaris for Ruggedized OS kernels for database workloads
Oracle’s x86 servers
OS-based CPU, memory, I/O, and storage diagnosis
Extensions
to BIOS, Oracle Integrated
Lights Out Manager, storage Hardened BIOS, HBA, and NIC firmware from
controllers, and other firmware rigorous testing in engineered systems

Advanced diagnostics and fault detection of

Advanced Oracle-specific chassis, memory, and CPU problems in firmware
design of motherboard,
power, thermal, and
mechanical subsystems Designs that reduce cabling, power distribution
boards, and other points of failure
Standard x86 Designed 100 percent in-house by Oracle
chipset and
engineers
components

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Oracle Database on Oracle’s x86 Servers
Best Tested, Most Reliable Combination
• Oracle’s x86 systems are the platform that:
A. Oracle Database developers use to write and unit test their code
B. Oracle Database QA teams use to perform break-fix and stress testing
C. Oracle’s engineered systems, such as Oracle Exadata and Oracle
Database Appliance, use as building blocks
D. Oracle uses in production to implement Oracle Cloud
E. Oracle Cloud uses to process more than 3.2 billion business-critical
database transactions per hour, across 20,000 of Oracle’s x86 servers
• This reduces operational expenses because problems are found and
fixed prior to the general release of Oracle’s x86 servers.

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Oracle Cloud Platform: Complete, Integrated, Open

SaaS
ERP HR CX EPM DATA SCM INDUSTRY

PaaS DATA IT OPS CONTENT and

MGMT APP DEV INTEGRATION SECURITY ANALYTICS MGMT PROCESS

IaaS
COMPUTE STORAGE NETWORKING

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Oracle’s x86 Servers
Roadmap and Innovations

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Oracle’s x86 Systems Roadmap
Lockstep with Intel Tick/Tock Development Model
New

Change to 12x Ne

New

Oracle Server X5-4 Oracle Server X5-8 Oracle Server X6-2 Oracle Server X6-2L
-EX 4S (E7-8895 v3) -EX 8S (E7-8895 v3) -EP 2S (E5-2600 v4) -EP 2S (E5-2600 v4)
Intel Haswell Broadwell Next Gen
Technology Tock Tick Tock

Oracle Oracle Server X6-#

Sun Server X5-# X7-#
System

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Oracle-Intel Collaboration Model

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 NVM Express (NVMe) – High IOPS Flash Implementations
Oracle’s Two- and Four-Socket x86 Servers Support Hot-Swappable, High-Bandwidth
Flash
Uses same 2.5-inch Four drive bays in
small-form-factor both the two-
(SFF) drive bays as socket and four-
hard drives and socket enclosures
conventional SSDs are designated as
NVMe capable*

Oracle’s unique design connects the disk backplane to an internal PCIe switch that
occupies one of the internal PCIe slots and bypasses the SAS controller.
Note: NVMe implemented as LP-PCIe card in Oracle Server X5-8 and Oracle Server X6-2L (12x 3.5-inch chassis)

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NVM Express Bandwidth Breakthrough
Bandwidth to Each SSD Increased by 2.6x
Conventional SSDs Flash Flash

• Flash data is first 12 Gb/sec

PCIe PCIe PCIe SAS-3 SAS-3 Flash Flash
transformed to SAS Memory
Gen3
Root SAS to Flash
protocol Complex Controller Controller Flash Flash

• Bandwidth to each SSD Flash Flash

limited by SAS-3 bandwidth Oracle’s x86 Servers Standard SSD

NVM Express SSDs Flash Flash

32 Gb/sec
• Eliminates the protocol PCIe Gen3
transformation to SAS PCIe PCIe Flash Flash

Memory Root to Flash

Flash Flash
• Interfaces with root Complex Controller

complex over a four-lane Flash Flash

PCIe Gen3 interface Oracle’s x86 Servers NVM Express SSD

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Deploying Any RDBMS on Oracle’s x86 Servers
Engineering Investments Made for Oracle Database Transferred to Other Databases

• Storage controller hardware, firmware,

and device drivers hardened for database
DB Node
workloads Cluster
• Oracle-unique NVMe flash for increased SW
DB Node NAS/SAN
performance, endurance, and security Cluster
SW
• NIC firmware and device drivers optimized DB Node
for clustering

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Database Smart Flash Cache, a Feature of Oracle Database
15x Faster Database I/O Service Times on Oracle’s x86 Servers with NVM Express SSDs

Hot Data Warm Data

DRAM
3. Clean blocks LRU’ed
Oracle’s x86 server with to flash cache*
NVM Express SSDs Buffer Cache Large pool of
Database Smart Flash Cache

1. Blocks read into 2. Dirty blocks flushed to disk. 4. Database looks for
buffer cache. blocks first in buffer cache
then flash cache.
Cold Data

* Headers for flash cache blocks kept in SGA

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Elastic Computing Enhanced for Oracle Server X5-4 and X5-8
Oracle Partners with Intel to Develop
3.5
Intel® Xeon® processor E7-8895 v3 3.4
3.3

Frequency (GHz)
3.2
3.1
3.0
• Uses a single processor SKU that can behave like 2.9
a variety of other SKUs at runtime 2.8
• Gets faster as you disable cores 2.7
2.6
• Allows servers to be repurposed by varying core
counts and frequencies to meet the needs of 1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9
different workloads 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18
• Works in conjunction with system BIOS and
Oracle operating systems’ kernels E7-8890 v3
E7-8895 v3

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Oracle’s x86 Servers
Key Enterprise Software Workloads

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Oracle’s x86 Servers for Oracle Database

Oracle Database
Appliance X5-2 Oracle Exadata X6-2 Oracle Exadata X6-8

Oracle Server X6-2L Oracle Server X6-2 Oracle Server X5-8 Oracle Server X5-4

Single Node High-Availability Clustered Database In-Memory

Dual Node and Consolidation

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Oracle’s x86 Servers for Relational Database

Oracle Server X5-4

Oracle Server X6-2L Oracle Server X6-2 Oracle Server X5-8

Single Node Clustered Database In-Memory

and Consolidation

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Oracle’s x86 Servers for IaaS

Oracle Server X6-2

Oracle Server X5-4 Oracle Private Oracle Cloud Exalogic Elastic
Cloud Appliance Machine Cloud X5-2
X5-2

Enterprise Virtualization Large, I/O-Intensive Enterprise

Virtualization Turnkey Enterprise Virtualization

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Oracle’s x86 Servers for Storage Solutions

High Reliability ZFS Compression Integrated with Oracle

High Capacity Tiered Storage Database

Oracle ZFS Storage

Appliance
Oracle Server X6-2L

Oracle Server X6-2L

OEM Storage Custom Scale-Out Enterprise-Class

Appliances Storage Deployments Network-Attached
Storage

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Oracle’s x86 Servers
Two-Socket Servers

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 Oracle Server X6-2
Designed for Clustered Databases and
Virtualized Environments
• Obtain highest levels of hardware security built
in to minimize vulnerability to cyber attacks
• Compact 1U enterprise-class server
• Maximize revenue—30 percent higher uptime • 2 Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v4 processors
compared to running Oracle Database on third- • 44 cores (88 threads)
party x86 • 768 GB memory (24 DIMM slots)
• Accelerate Oracle Real Application Clusters • 9.6 TB HDD capacity or 3.2 TB SSD capacity
(Oracle RAC) and reduce $/transaction using • 4 PCIe Gen 3 I/O expansion slots
hot-swappable NVMe flash • Four 10GBase-T ports
• Reduce CapEx, achieve faster revenue • 12.8 TB hot-swappable NVM Express SSD capacity
recognition, and increase flexibility using
Oracle’s hybrid cloud model

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 Change to 12x NVMe pictures
Oracle Server X6-2L
Designed for Single-Node Database
and Enterprise Storage
• Obtain highest levels of hardware security
built in to minimize vulnerability to a cyber
attack
• Maximize reliability using built-in problem • Compact 2U enterprise-class server
diagnosis and fault detection in Oracle OSs • 2 Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v4 processors
• 44 cores (88 threads)
• Accelerate Oracle Database with Oracle’s hot-
• 768 GB memory (24 DIMM slots)
swappable NVM Express flash • 98.4 TB HDD capacity or 10.4 TB SSD capacity
• Optimize for either storage capacity or • 6 PCIe Gen 3 I/O expansion slots
performance with multiple storage options • Four 10GBase-T ports
• 28.8 TB hot-swappable NVM Express SSD
• Increase storage space by 15x when combined capacity*
with Oracle Solaris and ZFS compression
*12.8 TB Available in 8x 2.5” chassis and 28.8 TB available in the 24x 2.5” chassis

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Oracle’s x86 Servers
Four-Socket and Eight-Socket Servers

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Why Scale Up with Oracle?
Benefits of Running Oracle Database on Oracle’s Scale-Up Systems

Top 5 Reasons Benefit

Higher Memory Capacity Run more of your databases in memory
Maximize performance of Oracle Database In-
Higher Memory Bandwidth
Memory
Maximize resource utilization by consolidating
Oracle Exadata X5-8
More Total Cores with multitenant feature to get the most out each
software license
Simplify patching, maintenance, and monitoring of
Fewer Servers to Manage
database and hardware layers
Depend on advanced reliability features in
More Reliable hardware layer rather than provisioning spare
database servers

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Benefits of Elastic Computing
Simplifies IT and Reduces Operating Expenses Through Innovation

• Simplifies the process of determining system configuration

• Streamlines the purchasing process
• Decreases system management overhead with dynamic repurposing of
common assets
• Reduces power consumption by maximizing CPU utilization
Example: transaction processing at higher speed in one hour and switch to
higher core counts in the next hour for higher throughput computing

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Oracle Server X5-4
Designed for Oracle Software, IaaS,
and Virtualization
• Most flexible four-socket architecture with
elastic computing capability • Compact 3U enterprise-class server
• 40 percent higher rack-level core and DIMM • 4 Intel Xeon processor E7-8895 v3 processors
slot density than competition with full mesh interconnect
• 72 cores (144 threads)
• Optimal four-socket environment for
• 3 TB memory (96 DIMM slots)
virtualization, allowing maximum VM density
for VMs requiring large amounts of memory • 7.2 TB HDD capacity or 2.4 TB SSD capacity
• 11 PCIe Gen3 I/O expansion slots
• Most advanced RAS features that extend
• Four 10GBase-T ports
beyond the CPUs themselves to include more
advanced power and thermal RAS capabilities • Oracle’s NVMe SSDs (up to 6.4 TB)

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Oracle Server X5-8
Designed for Oracle Database and
Scale-Up Enterprise Applications
• Most flexible eight-socket architecture with
elastic computing capability
• “Glueless” design allows for maximum • Compact 5U enterprise-class server
performance for Oracle Database, reduced • 8 Intel Xeon processor E7-8895 v3 processors
power consumption, and improved
reliability • 144 cores (288 threads)
• 6 TB memory (192 DIMM slots)
• Fully modular design with fans, power
• 9.6 TB HDD capacity or 3.2 TB SSD capacity
supplies, CPU modules, and I/O front or
rear accessible • 16 PCIe Gen3 I/O expansion slots
• Oracle Flash Accelerator F160 PCIe Card
• 60 percent higher rack-level core and support, up to 12.8 TB with 8x cards
DIMM slot density than competition

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Oracle’s Eight-Socket Compared to the Competition
Lenovo
Oracle Server X5-8 System x3950 X6

Form Factor 5U rackmount 8U rackmount

Country of Origin USA China

Oracle-unique Intel
Xeon processor E7-8895 v3 Standard Intel Xeon processor
Processor
processors with elastic E7-8800 v3 SKU stack
computing

Chassis Design Engineered specifically for 8S Mechanically Glued 2x 4-socket

Glue-less QPI interconnect, Propriety QPI connections, to

QPI Topology Design
guaranteed lowest latency allow 8S to become 2x 4-socket
Used by Intel as 8S glueless
Intel Partnership Standard OEM relationship
validation platform
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System Management Portfolio

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Oracle Server Management Tools
Unified Portfolio of Tools Across Products

Oracle provides one set of tools

that work across all Oracle
hardware and all Oracle
operating systems

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Common Management Layer
Flexible and Rich Management Framework

Operator Interfaces System Interfaces

SSH CLI HTTP RKVM IPMI SNMP syslog

Common Oracle Hardware

Oracle ILOM Management Management
Layer Pack

SPARC x86

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Oracle ILOM Security and Ubiquity
• High-end security features across portfolio
– FIPS 140-2 compliant mode
– Advanced auditing and logging
– Fine-grained role-based user access control
• Encrypted remote storage and video redirection

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Complete Management: Oracle Enterprise Manager
Ops Center
Seamless Integration

Operator Interfaces i System Interfaces

SSH CLI HTTP RKVM IPMI SNMP syslog

Common Oracle Hardware

Oracle ILOM Management Management
Layer Pack

SPARC x86

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Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager
(Oracle ILOM)
Embedded Service Processor

• Simplifies maintenance and management by allowing

full control of the server remotely
• Includes built-in fault diagnosis engine that proactively
detects hardware problems in real time and sends notifications
• Provides a simple web interface for managing and configuring the server
• Supports standard management interfaces, such as SNMP trap notifications
and IPMI 2.0
• Connects with Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c

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Oracle Hardware Management Pack
Management Agents and CLI Tools
• Reduces operating expenses by allowing
automation and scripting of server
configuration and monitoring
• Includes command-line tools and agents
• Allows for configuration and replication of
RAID, BIOS, and Oracle ILOM settings across
servers
• Provides agent for monitoring health of server
including storage subsystem
• Tightly integrated with Oracle ILOM

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Oracle’s x86 Systems Advanced Diagnostics
Built-In UEFI Diagnostics Feature

• Allows you to run the very same diagnostic tools that Oracle uses at
manufacturing time to validate components, such as:
– Validating DRAM using multiple test patterns
– Validating PCIe and QPI links
– Validating block devices using sequential, random, and read-write-verify
– Mechanical stress tests
– Verification of CPU speed using timers
– Ethernet loop-back tests
• Manual or automatic—command line can be accessed through Oracle ILOM

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