2.1.3 Increased Number of Virtual Machines on Database Servers

Starting with Exadata X10M database server hardware, Oracle Exadata System Software release 24.1.0 introduces various optimizations that enable up to fifty (50) virtual machine (VM) guests on each KVM host. This capability gives customers much greater flexibility to utilize the large number of CPU cores available starting with Exadata X10M.

In addition to enabling more guests, the optimizations in Oracle Exadata System Software release 24.1.0 reduce the deployment time for each guest to approximately half of the time required in earlier releases. Regardless of whether you need to deploy 50 guests or just a few, this improvement benefits all users on all systems using Oracle Linux KVM.