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Exadata X2-8 Installation And Pics
I've been talking about starting a blog for a while, and what better to start it with than pictures of "The Great Beast," or "Sasquatch." He's more commonly known as the Exadata X2-8. It's one of the first in the area, and I had the opportunity to sit in on the installation/setup. I've got a few details, then more pics after the jump.
Frontal view of the X2-8
Exadata X2-8 Compute (Database) Nodes
| Model | Sun Fire X4800 |
| CPU | 8x8-core Xeon X7560 2.26GHz |
| Memory | 1TB |
| Internal Disk | 8x300GB SAS 10k RPM |
| Internal RAID | RAID 5 with 1 hot spare |
| Infiniband | 4x dual-port QDR Infiniband PCIe Cards |
| Network | 8x10GbE SFP+ Ports |
| 8x1GbE Ethernet Ports | |
| 1xEthernet ILOM Port |
Exadata X2-8 Cell (Storage) Nodes
| Model | Sun Fire X4270 M2 |
| CPU | 4x4-core Xeon L5640 2.27GHz |
| Memory | 24GB |
| Internal Disk | 12x600GB SAS 15k RPM or 12x2TB SAS 7.2k RPM |
| Internal RAID | Software RAID for OS |
| Infiniband | 1x dual-port QDR Infiniband PCIe Cards |
| Flash | 4x96GB Sun PCIe Flash Cards |
| Network | 4x1GbE Ethernet Ports |
| 1xEthernet ILOM Port |
Anyways, on to the pictures.
X2-8 from the front
X2-8 Requires 2 3-phase connections per PDU
The back is cleaner with the X4800 servers
Front view of X4800
I was hoping to see if it had the option to boot from Solaris or Linux, but it wasn't running the latest version of the Exadata software (11.2.2.3.2) yet.
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June 28th, 2011 - 16:27
Hi Andy, Question for you. Why did your company choose X2-8 v/s X2-2. Because if 1 node is down you are basically down to a single node?
Thanks
June 29th, 2011 - 18:21
This was chosen by a client of ours….They felt that one of the X4800 nodes would be sufficient for their workload, so went with the X2-8. Also, they felt that their application as it exists today would not handle scaling out horizontally across the 8 compute nodes in a full X2-2 rack, thus wanting a cluster of 2 larger nodes.
July 4th, 2011 - 01:55
hi Andy
congrats for new blog
August 9th, 2011 - 06:48
The back is soooo much cleaner than the X2-2. Nice pics.
September 20th, 2011 - 11:16
Andy,
In the power connection cables picture, you mentioned that X2-8 requires two 3-phase switches, but you have shown the picture of single-phase connectors/receptacles. 3-phase connectors are red in color.
Regards,
Vishal Gupta
http://blog.vishalgupta.com
September 20th, 2011 - 11:28
Vishal,
These were the “low voltage” 3-phase (4 pin) connectors. The “high voltage” 3-phase (5-pin) connectors are red.