11.3.8 High Capacity Exadata Storage Server X8-2 and X8M-2 Hardware Components

Oracle Exadata Storage Server X8-2 and X8M-2 High Capacity servers include the following components:

• 2x 16-core Intel Xeon 5218 Processors (2.3GHz)
• 192 GB RAM (12 x 16 GB DIMMs) – full 6 channels
• X8M-2 only: 12 x 128 GB Intel Optane™ DC Persistent Memory modules
• 12 x 14 TB High Capacity SAS disks, but only 6 drives on Eighth Rack configurations
• 2 x 240 GB M.2 devices for system partitions (partitioned to appear as 150 GB devices)
• 4 x 6.4 TB flash accelerator PCIe cards
• Disk controller HBA with 2 GB cache
• X8M-2 only: 1 dual-port (PCIe 3.0), both ports active, 100Gb/s RDMA Network Fabric Card
• X8-2 only: 2 x InfiniBand 4X QDR (40 Gb/s) InfiniBand ports (1 dual-port PCIe 3.0 Host Channel Adapter (HCA)), all ports active
• 1 Ethernet port for ILOM for remote management

The X8-2 HC server requires Oracle Exadata System Software release 19.2.0 or later. The X8M-2 HC server requires Oracle Exadata System Software release 19.3.0 or later.