Overview of Elastic Storage Expansion
With elastic storage expansion, you can dynamically increase your storage capacity to meet your growing workload requirements.
Expand the storage capacity on-demand by scaling up the infrastructure with additional storage servers without being constrained by the standard supported shapes. You can allocate additional storage capacity available from the newly added storage servers to the already deployed VM cluster without disrupting the current running workloads. Additional storage capacity from newly added storage servers is also available for provisioning new VM clusters on the infrastructure.
With the elastic storage expansion capability, you can now:
- Provision of new Exadata Infrastructure with custom storage capacity.
- Start with a smaller storage footprint for the Exadata Infrastructure at install time.
- Expand the storage capacity on existing deployed Exadata Infrastructure on-demand in an automated, elastic fashion.
- Allocate additional storage capacity available from newly added storage servers to already deployed VM clusters and/or use them for provisioning new VM clusters on the infrastructure.
X7-2 Key Additional Resources
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Specification |
Exadata Base System Storage Server X7-2 |
Exadata Storage Server X7-2 |
|---|---|---|
|
Additional Raw Flash Storage Capacity |
6.4 TB |
25.6 TB |
|
Additional Raw Disk Storage Capacity |
48 TB |
120 TB |
|
Additional Usable Storage Capacity |
14 TB |
35.3 TB |
X8-2 Key Additional Resources
|
Specification |
Exadata Base System Storage Server X8-2 |
Exadata Storage Server X8-2 |
|---|---|---|
|
Additional Raw Flash Storage Capacity |
12.8 TB |
25.6 TB |
|
Additional Raw Disk Storage Capacity |
84 TB |
168 TB |
|
Additional Usable Storage Capacity |
24.6 TB |
49.6 TB |
X8M-2 Key Additional Resources
|
Specification |
Exadata Base System Storage Server X8M-2 |
Exadata Storage Server X8M-2 |
|---|---|---|
|
Additional Raw Flash Storage Capacity |
12.8 TB |
25.6 TB |
|
Additional Raw Disk Storage Capacity |
84 TB |
168 TB |
|
Additional Usable Storage Capacity |
24.6 TB |
49.6 TB |
|
Additional Persistent Memory |
- |
1.5 TB |
Elastic scaling of Exadata Storage Servers is subject to the following conditions:
- The Exadata Cloud@Customer system configuration must be based on Oracle Exadata X7 hardware, Oracle Exadata X8 hardware, or Oracle Exadata X8M hardware.
- Each Exadata Cloud@Customer system configuration can have an absolute maximum of 12 Exadata Storage Servers.
- Exadata Infrastructure deployed with base configuration shape can only be expanded using base expansion SKU storage servers.
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Exadata Infrastructures deployed with X7 generation at install time can be scaled with X8 generation storage servers. X8 storage servers used to scale X7 infrastructure will only present the same total usable capacity as all other X7 storage servers that are already part of the infrastructure.
- Exadata Infrastructures deployed with X8M generation at install time can only be scaled with X8M or higher generation storage servers.
Exadata Infrastructures deployed with additional storage servers will be configured as an Elastic shape with the total number of storage servers and usable capacity clearly called out for the given infrastructure.
Before you can scale the number of Exadata storage servers, review the site and network requirements, and the checklists to prepare and deploy Exadata Cloud@Customer. Ensure that you have worked with sales and followed the procurement process. The following figure provides you an overview of the order and deployment process.
