Each Exalytics Machine by default is shipped with all core processors enabled. Therefore, the X2-4 and X3-4 machines are shipped with 40 active core processors, the X4-4 machine is shipped with 60 active core processors, the X5-4 machine is shipped with 72 core processors, and the X6-4 machine is shipped with 72 core processors.
Depending on the requirements of the applications that you run, you can use the Exalytics Capacity on Demand Utility to configure the Oracle Exalytics operating system to change the number of active core processors on each Exalytics Machine.
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