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Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Service

Exadata Performance, Cloud Simplicity

The Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Service (Exadata Service) delivers

the worlds best Cloud Database Platform by combining the worlds #1
database with Exadata, the most powerful database platform, and adding
all the simplicity and cost effectiveness of the public cloud.
Customers can now run Oracle databases in the cloud with the same
extreme performance and availability experienced by thousands of
organizations deploying Exadata on-premises. Oracle databases
deployed in the cloud as part of this service include all Oracle Database
options. They are 100% compatible with those deployed on-premises,
ensuring a smooth transition to the cloud, and an efficient hybrid cloud
strategy. With pay-as you-grow dedicated Exadata configurations, and
infrastructure managed by Oracle experts, Exadata Service enables
business agility and operational flexibility with zero CapEx.

Best Database on Best Cloud Platform

Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Service (Exadata Service) uniquely combines the
worlds #1 database technology and the most powerful database platform, with the
agility and elasticity of a cloud-based deployment.

Best Database Technology

Oracle Database is the most popular and most versatile database technology for both
OLTP and Analytics. With 35+ years of technology innovation, it has been proven at
millions of mission-critical deployments around the world. Exadata Service makes this
enterprise-proven, robust database technology available in the Cloud. All of Oracles
industry leading capabilities are included in the Exadata Service, such as In-Memory
Database, Real Application Clusters (RAC), Active Data Guard, Automatic Storage
Management (ASM), Partitioning, Advanced Compression, Advanced Security,
Database Vault, Real Application Testing, OLAP, Analytics, Spatial and Graph. Also
available is Oracle Multitenant, which allows an Oracle container database to hold
many pluggable databases, enabling high consolidation density, rapid provisioning and
cloning, efficient patching and upgrades, and significantly simplified database
management.

Most Powerful Database Platform

The platform that delivers Exadata Service is Oracle Exadata, which has been
established as the highest performing, most cost effective and most available platform
for running Oracle Database. Exadata was designed from the beginning as a cloud
architecture featuring scale-out database servers and scale-out intelligent storage

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servers connected by an ultra-fast InfiniBand network. Exadata includes state-of-theart PCI flash storage to deliver the highest throughput and best response times along
with high capacity disks and database-optimized compression to provide cost effective
capacity for the largest databases.
Unique software algorithms in Exadata bring database intelligence to storage, PCI
flash, and InfiniBand networking for higher performance and capacity at lower costs
than other platforms. Deployed at thousands of sites around the world, Exadata
delivers extreme performance for all types of database workloads including Online
Transaction Processing (OLTP), Data Warehousing (DW), In-Memory Analytics and
consolidation of mixed workloads.
For additional information on Exadata, please visit http://www.oracle.com/exadata.
KEYBUSNIESS BENEFITS

Oracle Database Exadata Cloud

Service delivers the performance and
availability of Exadata for running
Oracle Database and mission-critical
applications on the Oracle Public Cloud

Quick, simple provisioning of Oracle

Databases with all features and
options, with the agility of the Oracle
Cloud and robustness of Exadata
platform

Affordable elastic configurations with

pay as you grow expandability

Requires no application changes

No IT management overhead with

Oracle experts taking care of
managing the backend infrastructure

Zero CapEx

Best Cloud Offering for an Enterprise Database

On top of the rock-solid Oracle Database and Exadata platform, Exadata Service adds
the ease, simplicity and flexibility of Oracle Public Cloud. Organizations can now
access Oracle Database on Oracle Exadata without capital investments for IT
infrastructure such as data center space, power, cooling, compute servers, storage
and networks. Oracle experts manage all backend infrastructure on behalf of
customers, which means human resources and IT administration costs are significantly
reduced, and IT can focus on improving business results. Full Oracle Database
functionality with Exadata Service ensures that any existing application can be quickly
migrated to the cloud without changes. Provisioning and expanding the Exadata
Service is driven through simple web interfaces, providing customers rapid elasticity to
meet changing business demands. An Exadata Service provisioned for one customer
is completely isolated from other tenants, providing assured performance and security
for business critical workloads.

Customer Benefits
Exadata Service is 100% compatible with on-premises Oracle databases and all
existing applications. With Exadata Service, organizations can easily embark on a pure
cloud or hybrid cloud strategy that spans on-premises databases as well as databases
in the Cloud.
Exadata Service offers immediate business benefits to a broad range of customers:

Exadata Service enables existing on-premises Exadata customers to easily embark

on a journey to the cloud without compromising the database performance and
availability levels they enjoy with their on-premises Exadata deployments.

Existing Oracle Database customers who have not yet experienced Exadata can
easily start enjoying the performance, availability and scalability benefits of the
worlds best database platform without losing any of the database functionality they
rely on.

Organizations that have been forced to settle for public cloud databases with limited
functionality and compromised data consistency can now benefit from the most
sophisticated database functionality on the most powerful cloud database platform.

Service Overview
Exadata Service enables fully featured Oracle Databases to run on the Exadata
platform in the Oracle Public Cloud. Exadata Service instances come pre-configured
according to best-practices that have been proven at thousands of mission critical
Exadata sites around the world.

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KEY FEATURES

Exadata Service combines all the

enterprise-proven Options and features
of Oracle Database, engineered
configurations of Oracle Exadata, with
the simplicity of Oracle Cloud.

Rapid provisioning in a few clicks

Pay as you grow elastic configurations

with monthly subscription price

Isolation through the Oracle VM Xenbased hypervisor

100% compatibility with all onpremises applications and Oracle

databases

Comprehensive management through

Oracle Enterprise Manager

All backend infrastructure managed by

Oracle experts

Enterprise-Class Security, Availability

and Performance

WORKLOADS

Any combination or mix of OLTP, Data

Warehousing, Reporting, OLAP, InMemory Analytics, Spatial, Graph,
JSON, XML, Objects, Large Objects

Consolidate many physical databases

or pluggable databases

Disaster Recovery in Cloud with query

offload

Full ACID compliance (Atomicity,

Consistency, Isolation, Durability)
greatly simplifies application
development and ensures data
correctness

ORACLE DAT ABASE

Oracle Database 12.1.0.2, or Oracle

Database 11.2.0.4

All Oracle Enterprise Manager Packs

All Oracle Database Options

including Oracle Real Application
Clusters, Active Data Guard,
Multitenant, Partitioning, Advanced
Security, In-Memory

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Databases provisioned on the Exadata Service include all the features of Oracle
Database Enterprise Edition, plus all Oracle Enterprise Manager Packs and all
Database Enterprise Edition Options, such as Oracle Multitenant, Oracle Database InMemory, Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), Oracle Advanced Security and
Oracle Active Data Guard. Customers can choose either Oracle Database 11g
Release 2 (11.2.0.4) or Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1.0.2) as their preferred
database version. They connect to the configured database from their on-premises
applications using standard Oracle Net Services clients such as JDBC and OCI.
Customers also have full privileged OS level access to their compute nodes.
Customers can chose an Exadata configuration starting with a Quarter Rack which has
2 database servers and 3 storage servers. The database servers have a minimum and
maximum number of compute cores (OCPUs) that can be enabled for the chosen
configuration, and customers can specify their desired number of compute cores within
these limits. Customers subscribe to the Exadata service on a monthly basis, and this
monthly pricing is based on the number of enabled compute cores. As business grows,
customers can enable additional compute cores, thus paying only for the processing
power that is required.
Customers with additional resource requirements may choose larger Exadata
configurations, enabling higher compute, network and storage capacity. Detailed
specifications for each Exadata Service configuration are provided in Table 1.
The Exadata Service features no over-provisioning of hardware to ensure that
response times and throughput are predictable for critical business processes. This
contrasts with other cloud providers that silently overprovision hardware and may not
be able to deliver the expected resources during busy periods such as quarter-ending
time.
Customers have complete access to all Oracle Database and OS features to ensure
smooth and simple migration. Each compute node is configured with a single Virtual
Machine (VM) owned by the customer. Customers have root privilege for the Exadata
compute node VMs and DBA password on the Oracle Databases, so they can
configure the system as they like, and load additional agent software on the Exadata
compute nodes to conform to business standards or security monitoring requirements.
Customers perform familiar database administration and OS administration tasks aided
by cloud automation for backups, patching, and upgrades.
All supporting infrastructure for Exadata Service is deployed, maintained and managed
by Oracle, including datacenter networking, private Exadata InfiniBand networks,
physical Exadata compute and storage servers, firmware, and Exadata storage
software. This allows customers to focus on their business needs and application
requirements, and not IT infrastructure management.
Database and OS patching is initiated by customers on their preferred schedule while
infrastructure patching is performed automatically by Oracle.

Use Cases
Exadata Service fits a wide variety of business use cases that are governed primarily
by two principles the enterprise-proven reliability and functionality of Oracle
databases, and the agility of Cloud to quickly meet business requirements. Business
users dont have to wait for long IT budgetary approvals and procurement cycles to
deliver time-sensitive applications.

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Exadata Service is an ideal fit for:

Running business-critical production OLTP or analytic databases at almost any scale

without incurring the capital expenditure and complexity of maintaining the underlying
IT infrastructure. Oracle Database In-Memory enables ultra high-performance
analytics to be run on dedicated analytic databases or directly on OLTP databases.

Consolidating a variety of workloads using multiple Oracle Databases or Oracle

Multitenant.

Maintaining synchronized Oracle standby or replica databases for disaster recovery

and/or query offloading using Oracle Active Data Guard or Oracle GoldenGate.

Quickly provisioning high-performance Oracle databases for ad-hoc business

reasons such as feature development, functionality testing, application certification,
proof-of-concept, and try-before-buy.

Executing time-sensitive large-scale business applications such as launching a webbased marketing campaign, running loyalty programs, and rolling out new business
initiatives.

ORACLE EXADAT A HARDWARE

Fastest Networking

40Gb/sec InfiniBand Networking

Fastest Storage
Ultra-fast PCI Flash
Up to 120GB/sec Throughput
Up to 3.6 Million 8K I/Os per sec
millisecond response time

Fastest Compute
Fastest x86 Processors

Large Memory Capacity

Complete Redundancy

256 GB per Server

ORACLE EXADAT A SOFTWARE,

All Exadata Software features, such as:

Smart Scan

Storage Indexes

Data Mining Offload

Hybrid Columnar Compression

Smart Flash Cache

Smart Flash Logging

In-Memory Fault Tolerance

I/O Resource Management

Network Resource Management

Instant Failure Detection

Sub-second I/O Latency Capping

Columnar Flash Cache

JSON/XML Smart Scan

Direct-to-Wire OLTP protocol

Test/Dev Snapshots

Fastest RAC Node Failure Recovery

Fastest Data Guard Redo Apply

Fastest GoldenGate

Fastest Backup using Offload to

Storage

An attractive aspect of all these use cases for existing Oracle Database customers is
that their applications and data models do not have to change. Their Data Center
simply expands to include the elasticity and flexibility of the Oracle Cloud.

Access and Security

The Exadata Service provides secure high-performance access from both on-premises
systems and from other Oracle Public Cloud services. To ensure consistent highperformance and isolation, multiple separate physical networks are provided on each
Exadata Server.

The Client Network provides 10Gb/sec connectivity for applications to send and
receive data to/from databases.

The Database Admin Network provides a separate physical network for customer
administrators and Oracle Enterprise Manager.

The Backup Network provides 10Gb/sec connectivity for high-bandwidth use cases
such as Backup, Data Loading, and Data Guard disaster recovery.

InfiniBand is used internally for ultra-high speed compute-to-compute and computeto-storage networking.

A secure isolated Cloud Management network is used by Oracle to manage the

servers, storage and switches. This network is not accessible to customers.

Fig. 1: Access and Security Model for Exadata Service

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Secure application connectivity is ensured by using Secure SQL*Net through an SSH

tunnel or IPsec VPN. A firewall whitelist containing customers source IP addresses
restricts network access to their allocated Exadata Service instances. InfiniBand
security is enforced using InfiniBand partitioning which provides network isolation on
the InfiniBand network. Customer databases run in a separate VM container on the
Exadata servers to restrict access to hardware resources. Databases created on the
Exadata Service are required to have their tablespaces encrypted (using Oracle
Databases Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) capability), in order to provide an extra
layer of protection.

Provisioning
Exadata Service includes a simple easy-to-use web-based provisioning wizard through
which customers can quickly provision their database instances. This wizard is
available through Oracles Cloud Portal, http://cloud.oracle.com. After purchasing and
activating a subscription to Oracle Database Cloud Service, customers simply choose
Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service as the desired service subscription type while
provisioning a database.

Fig. 2: Choosing Exadata Service through Oracle Cloud Portal

The customer-chosen Exadata configuration defines the number of database servers

and storage servers in the environment allocated to the customer, as well as the
database server CPU cores enabled. Subsequently, as part of deploying the database
instances, customers can choose additional attributes such as database administration
security credentials, and whether or not to provision storage space for local backups.
These selections fundamentally determine the capacity and performance
characteristics of the system.

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Fig. 3: Configuring Exadata Service

High Availability
Exadata Service comes with all the high availability (HA) capabilities that are an
integral part of the Exadata platform. Exadata has completely redundant hardware
including redundant InfiniBand networking, redundant Power Distribution Units (PDU),
redundant power supplies, and redundant database and storage servers. Oracle RAC
protects against database server failures. ASM provides data mirroring to protect
against disk or storage server failures. Oracle RMAN provides extremely fast and
efficient backups to disk or to cloud. Oracles Flashback technology allows backing out
user errors at the database, table or row level.
Because of its industry leading availability, Exadata has been deployed by leading
companies for their most critical applications including interbank fund transfers, online
securities trading, real-time call tracking and web-based retailing. The best practices
guiding Exadata Service are largely derived from the deep experience that Oracle has
developed as part of deploying Exadata in these highly available environments.

Backup & Recovery

Exadata Service provides automatic built-in database backup facilities, with weekly full
backups and daily incremental backups. At the time of provisioning the service,
customers can choose backups to be stored on either cloud storage or local storage.
Backups based on Cloud Storage leverage Oracle Database Backup Cloud Service,
which is an RMAN-integrated solution to send Oracle Database backups directly to
Oracle Storage Cloud. This presents the most affordable and elastic option to store
backups for Exadata Service.
Customers also have the option to choose backing up to local storage, which is
configured as the Fast Recovery Area (FRA) associated with the allocated Exadata
instance. This delivers the fastest backup and recovery solution.

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Migration to Exadata Service

Full compatibility between on-premises databases and databases in Exadata Service
makes the migration to Exadata Service easy and low risk. Following established
Oracle Database best practices, two types of migration methodologies are supported:

Logical Migration this methodology allows data reorganization as part of migration.

Database solutions that can be used for this purpose are Oracle Data Pump and
Oracle GoldenGate.

Physical Migration this methodology, which is a byte-to-byte copy of the data, offers
the simplest way to migrate databases. Solutions that can be used for this purpose
are RMAN backup, Transportable technologies, and Data Guard. Customers can also
restore from a backup made on the Oracle Public Cloud through the Oracle Database
Backup Service.

Scaling Exadata Service

With Exadata Service, customers can easily scale their business by expanding their
allocated infrastructure. This can be done in two ways:

Add compute processing power within the allocated configuration this can be done
by enabling additional CPU cores, within the limits for the allocated configuration (ref.
Table 1).

Migrate an Exadata Service instance to a more powerful configuration, e.g. from a

Quarter Rack to a Half Rack. This is done when the processing power or storage
capacity / bandwidth that is required exceeds the amount that is available with the
allocated configuration.

Conclusion: Transform IT, Unleash Business Potential

Exadata Service includes the most versatile and functional database technology
Oracle Database, on the most powerful platform Exadata, with the simplicity and cost
effectiveness of Oracle Public Cloud.
Enterprise-proven database capabilities are now instantly available to maximize
productivity, lower risk and speed time-to-value. To embrace the Cloud, customers
now do not have to compromise their SQL functionality, performance, availability, data
models, or transactional integrity. No changes to on-premises applications are required
either, enabling rapid and easy migration to the cloud, or deployment of a hybrid cloud
strategy.
With a database platform uniquely engineered for extreme performance, along with
fast deployment, simplified management, low operating costs and reduced risks,
Exadata Service is the best Cloud Database platform available today.

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Table 1. EXADATA SERVICE: Technical Specifications

Quarter Rack

Half Rack

Full Rack

Number of Database Servers

Number of OCPUs

28 68

56 136

112 272

Total Memory

496 GB

992 GB

1,984 GB

Number of Storage Servers

61

121

Total Flash Capacity

19.2 TB

38.4 TB

76.8 TB

Total Usable Disk Capacity

42 TB

84 TB

168 TB

Max DB Size Supported (local backup)

16.8 TB

33.6 TB

67.2 TB

Max DB Size Supported (no local backup)

33.6 TB

67.2 TB

134.4 TB

30 GB/sec

60 GB/sec

120 GB/sec

900 K

1.8 M

3.6 M

Max SQL Flash Write IOPs

500 K

1M

2M

Max SQL Disk Bandwidth3

4.5 GB/sec

9 GB/sec

20 GB/sec

Max SQL Disk IOPs4

7K

14 K

28 K

Max Data Load Rate6

5 TB/hr

10 TB/hr

20 TB/hr

Max SQL Flash Bandwidth

Max SQL Flash Read IOPs

1. Note that Exadata Service Half Rack and Full Rack Configurations differ from on-premises half rack
and full rack. The Exadata Service Half Rack is twice the size of a Quarter Rack and has six storage
servers. The Exadata Service Full Rack is twice the size of the Half Rack and has twelve storage
servers.
2. After high-redundancy mirroring, but before database compression.
3. Bandwidth is peak physical scan bandwidth achieved running SQL, assuming no database
compression. Effective user data bandwidth is higher when database compression is used.
4. Based on 8K I/O requests running SQL.
5. Based on 8K I/O requests running SQL. Flash write I/Os measured at the storage servers after ASM
mirroring, which issues multiple storage I/Os to maintain redundancy.
6. Load rates are typically limited by database server CPU, not I/O. Rates vary based on load method,
indexes, data types, compression and partitioning.

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