Comments on: What is special about Oracle / Sun Exadata v2? http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/16/what-is-special-about-oracle-sun-exadata-v2/ Fresh Thinking on IT Operations Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:02:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: What is special about Oracle / Sun Exadata v2? « Enterprise Strategy Group http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/16/what-is-special-about-oracle-sun-exadata-v2/comment-page-1/#comment-7149 What is special about Oracle / Sun Exadata v2? « Enterprise Strategy Group Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:59:20 +0000 http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1569#comment-7149 [...] The Exadata uses Flash, lots of Flash and it uses Infiniband, not Fiber Channel, Ethernet or FCoE. Exadata uses PCI Flash memory modules not Solid State Disks. Actually it is not a general purpose storage controller and it doesn’t support non Oracle Database workload. It is designed from the outset to host Oracle Databases and [...] Read the entire blog enty here >> [...] [...] The Exadata uses Flash, lots of Flash and it uses Infiniband, not Fiber Channel, Ethernet or FCoE. Exadata uses PCI Flash memory modules not Solid State Disks. Actually it is not a general purpose storage controller and it doesn’t support non Oracle Database workload. It is designed from the outset to host Oracle Databases and [...] Read the entire blog enty here >> [...]

]]> By: Steve O'Donnell http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/09/16/what-is-special-about-oracle-sun-exadata-v2/comment-page-1/#comment-2495 Steve O'Donnell Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:46:30 +0000 http://www.thehotaisle.com/?p=1569#comment-2495 The flash PCIe cards are not made by Fusion-io - they are Sun parts. Steve The flash PCIe cards are not made by Fusion-io – they are Sun parts.

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