Storage Server Features; Storage Server Components - Oracle Exadata X5-2 Installation Manual

Storage Server Features

Storage Server Features
The Oracle Exadata Storage Server X5-2 Extreme Flash is an 8-slot (expandable to 12) NVM
Express (NVMe) solid state disk (SSD) configuration designed in the Oracle Server X5-2L
form factor with no changes to the chassis, motherboard, fans, PCIe slots, or rear IO. This
configuration uses up to 12 of the existing 24 slots in the disk cage. The chassis supports six
Gen3 PCIe slots, two of which are x16 while the remaining four are x8. To support the 12
PCIe NVM Express SSDs, four PCIe Gen3 x8 switch cards connect to each of the three NVMe
SSDs.

Storage Server Components

TABLE 1
Feature
Processor
Memory
Storage
PCI Express (PCIe) I/O
slots
Ethernet ports
USB 2.0 ports
Video (VGA) ports
Service processor (SP)
10 Oracle Exadata Storage Server X5-2 Extreme Flash Installation Guide • July 2018
Oracle Exadata Storage Server X5-2 Extreme Flash Components
Description
Two Intel E5-2630, 8-core, 2.4-GHz, 85W processors
■ Four integrated DDR4 memory controllers per processor.
Four 8-GB DIMMs per processor for a maximum of eight DDR4 DIMMs and a
maximum of 64-GB memory.
A minimum of eight up to a maximum of 12 2.5-inch hot-pluggable PCIe-based NVMe
SSDs
Note - Oracle PCIe switch controller cards are required for controlling and managing
NVMe SSDs.
Six PCIe Gen3 slots that accommodate low-profile PCIe cards:
■ Slots 1, 2, 5, and 6: x8 electrical interface, contain Oracle PCIe switch controller
cards. Each switch card supports three NVMe SSDs.
■ Slots 3 and 4: x16 electrical interface. Slot 3 contains a dedicated InfiniBand (IB)
QDR-CX3 PCIe host bus adapter card; slot 4 is a spare slot.
Four 10GBASE-T RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) ports on the rear panel.
Two front, two rear, and two internal.
Note - The internal USB ports are preinstalled with redundant USB drives. The primary
USB drive contains the GRUB boot loader for the operating system; the secondary USB
drive is a mirrored image of the primary USB drive.
One rear high-density DB-15 video port.
The storage server has an integrated service processor (SP). The SP provides IPMI 2.0-
compliant remote management capabilities. The SP features:
■ Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) 3.2.4
■ Local Oracle ILOM command-line access using a serial connection
■ Support for Ethernet access to the SP through a dedicated, 10/100/1000BASE-T
management port (NET MGT) and optionally through one of the host Ethernet ports
(sideband management)