SLOB on Violin 3000 Series with Infiniband

Last week I invited Martin Bach to the Violin Memory EMEA headquarters to do some testing on both our 3000 and 6000 series arrays. Martin was very interested in seeing how the Violin flash memory arrays performed, having already had some experience with PCIe-based flash card vendor. There are a few problems with PCIe flash … Continue reading SLOB on Violin 3000 Series with Infiniband →

Exadata Re-Racking Service

I've heard from a few sources now that Oracle is offering a new Exadata Re-racking service for quarter and half racks. The idea, as I understand it, is that if you have your own rack equipment in your data centre and don't want to use the rack that Exadata comes preinstalled in, you can pay … Continue reading Exadata Re-Racking Service →

SLOB testing on Violin and Exadata

I love SLOB, the Silly Little Oracle Benchmark introduced to me by Kevin Closson in his blog. I love it because it's so simple to setup and use. Benchmarking tools such as Hammerora have their place of course, but let's say you've just got your hands on an Exadata X2-8 machine and want to see … Continue reading SLOB testing on Violin and Exadata →

The History of Exadata

I've been working on a timeline for the history of Exadata, starting with the HP Oracle Database Machine and working through to the X2 series. It's interesting to see how Oracle's presentation of the product has changed over time, particularly the marketing messages. Also, if you didn't know better you would probably think that Engineered … Continue reading The History of Exadata →