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Up-Coming XTremIO Launch
EMC's new all-flash array, named XTremIO, will be launched next month. In terms of the market segment for this array, Oracle would certainly be a big target. See, for example, this white paper by the Uptime Institute on XTremIO performance in the context of Oracle and SAP.
An all-flash array is a killer feature for Oracle, especially in the case of a workload that looks like this:
- Large amounts of small block, random I/O
- Read intensive workload
- I/O latency is a performance bottleneck
- I/O bandwidth is a performance bottleneck
- The database will fit into the capacity of an all-flash array (each XTremIO brick has a capacity of 7 TB usable)
It is impressive how many Oracle database workloads look like that. Pretty much any heavily-used production OLTP database (unless it is breathtakingly large) would benefit from XTremIO. Assuming sufficient I/O activity (and what production Oracle database have you seen recently that is not I/O stressed?), an all-flash array will definitely help performance.
Given the costs of running Oracle, any significant performance improvement will return a very nice ROI. An all-flash array is certainly no exception. Fpr this reason, we fully expect for the XTremIO all-flash array to be a huge hit in the Oracle space.
But we would love to hear your thoughts. Please let us know of your plans, if any, to implement XtremIO all-flash arrays for your Oracle production workloads.
zhaos2
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November 1st, 2013 20:00
It is really a good news which will provide another option to improve Oracle DB performance!
jeff_browning
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November 4th, 2013 05:00
Thanks Simon!