The Oracle Exadata Storage Server X6-2 Extreme Flash is an enterprise-class, two rack unit (2U) storage server. It supports the following components:
Two Intel E5-2630 v4, 10-core, 2.2 GHz, 85W processors.
Four 16-GB DIMMs per processor for a maximum of 8 DDR4 DIMMs and a maximum of 128 GB memory.
Six PCIe Gen3 slots. PCIe slots 1, 2, 5, and 6 contain Oracle PCIe NVMe switch cards. PCIe slot 3 contains an InfiniBand QDR-CX3 PCIe host channel adapter (HCA) card.
Eight 2.5-inch hot-pluggable PCIe-based NVMe solid state disk drives (SSDs).
Two hot-pluggable, redundant 1000W power supplies.
Two internal USB ports. One internal USB port is preinstalled with an 8 GB USB drive. The USB drive contains the GRUB boot loader for the operating system.
Exadata preinstalled operating system (OS) image located on NVMe drives 0 and 1.
An on-board Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager (Oracle ILOM) service processor (SP) based on the Emulex Pilot 3 chip.