Comments on: Scrutinizing Exadata X5 Datasheet IOPS Claims…and Correcting Mistakes

This discussion has been very insightful. Kevin, I wonder if you have managed to assess the X6 series released about a year ago. I would love to see if Oracle is really evolving the platform for ...

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In reply to kevinclosson. Furthermore @kevinclosson, that is...

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Reblogged this on Kevin Closson's Blog: Platforms, Databas...

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In reply to robinsc. "they can do this is because on the ora...

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In reply to robinsc. "Some confusion all around" "That being...

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Seems to me there is some confusion all around. the extreme flash servers have two types of flash, 8 NVMe ssds which are 2.5 inch and 4 PCIe flash cards and of these are of capacity 1.6 TB. the p...

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With regards to COD only working on oracle branded boxes my guess how they can do this is because on the oracle servers they can control the bios and ensure no one can turn on additional cpus... ...

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In reply to Todd Boss. @Todd: You started the comment thread...

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I don't see the word "Nexus" but I did find one line searching for "fabric" in the EMC response. "Two 6296 Fabric Interconnects" are apparently included in the response. Thanks for the informatio...

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In reply to Todd Boss. @Todd : The last dual-core Xeon was a...

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In reply to kevinclosson. Yeah, too bad you can't see the re...

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In reply to Todd Boss. @Todd : OK, so this is starting to ma...

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In reply to kevinclosson. In the intro paragraph they said t...

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In reply to Todd Boss. @Todd: > But I am accurately depictin...

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In reply to kevinclosson. The usage patterns here are very f...

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In reply to Todd Boss. @Todd : Thanks for the reply. >"Ident...

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In reply to kevinclosson. We started doing evaluations of Ex...

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In reply to Todd Boss. @Todd Thanks for your comment. I'll a...

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Dumb question: I'm currently evaluating Exadata as a solution for a customer and met the X4->X5 upgrade warmly. For the same hardware costs, i'm getting 33% more CPU cores in my DB and storage no...

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In reply to Gurmeet Goindi (@ExadataPM). @ExadataPM The docu...

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In reply to Gurmeet Goindi (@ExadataPM). "CoD type functiona...

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In reply to kevinclosson. Well Kevin I'm afraid your assessm...

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In reply to kevinclosson. @kevinclosson - I am standing up a...

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In reply to Gurmeet Goindi (@ExadataPM). Thank you @ExadataP...

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In reply to oracle1521. You imply that OVM improves performa...

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