Monthly Archives: December 2013

Exadata Storage Server Version 12.1.1.1.0 Released

Oracle has released the much-anticipated version of cellsrv compatible with Oracle Database 12.1.0.1 (patch #16980054). Before thinking about upgrading, read MOS note #1571789.1 carefully.  Unless you are planning to run database 12c on your Exadata, it would be advisable to continue down the 11.2 branch of the cellsrv software, which currently has a latest version… Read More »

Oracle Announces Exadata X4-2

Today, Oracle announced the Exadata X4-2 model.  The X4 has some considerable improvements, namely: 12-core Intel Xeon e5-2697 CPUs, up from the 8-core models found in the X3-2 (hello, database licenses!) 256GB RAM per database server, upgradeable to 512GB 96GB RAM per storage server 800GB Sun Flash F80 cards – 3.2TB of storage per cell… Read More »