1 Introduction to Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exadata Storage Expansion Rack

Oracle Exadata Database Machine is engineered to be the highest performing and most available platform for running Oracle Database.

Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exadata Storage Expansion Rack are hardware systems that consist of multiple components. This chapter provides an overview of Exadata systems, and usage information.

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For ease of reading, the name "Oracle Exadata Rack" is used when information refers to both Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exadata Storage Expansion Rack.

Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exadata Storage Expansion Rack are described in the following topics:

• Oracle Exadata Architecture
  Oracle Exadata is a modern architecture featuring scale-out industry-standard database servers, scale-out intelligent storage servers, and an extremely high speed internal RDMA Network Fabric that connects the database and storage servers.
• Oracle Exadata Configurations
  Oracle Exadata can come in a specific configuration, for example the half rack, or use an elastic configuration with a custom number of database servers and storage servers.
• Oracle Exadata Database Machine Performance Features
  Oracle Exadata Database Machine not only provides high performance and scalability but also unique technology.
• Oracle Exadata Rack Limits and Restrictions