We are pleased to announce the next-generation Oracle Database Appliance X11. Designed by the best Oracle experts, the Oracle Database engineering team, and evolving to meet the demands of modern IT. Oracle Database Appliance X11 continues to provide:

  • Appliance Simplicity: Unique end-to-end automation makes it simple to deploy, operate, and support the full database software and hardware stack
  • Highest Reliability and Security: Unique integration with Oracle Database is designed for availability across all types of outages and updates and can improve security
  • Lowest Cost: Unique automation, optimization, and software licensing can greatly reduce capital, labor, and maintenance costs

 

Oracle Database Appliance has been adopted worldwide across industries by a wide range of customers. It is a trusted solution for small and medium enterprises to power all their database needs​ and for the largest enterprises to power departments and remote sites​. Oracle Database Appliance enables customers to run Oracle Databases and applications, and all types of workloads are supported, including OLTP, Analytics, in-memory, databases, and artificial intelligence.

 

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Oracle Database Appliance X11 is the next generation hardware, now even faster, for the same price. It offers:

Latest ultra-fast AMD EPYCTM x86 processors

  • Accelerate OLTP and Analytics up to 11% compared to X10

Latest ultra-fast memory

  • Accelerate in-memory workloads up to 33% compared to X10

Latest ultra-fast flash storage

  • Millions of OLTP IOs/sec, analyze a terabyte of data in seconds

With the new capabilities, Oracle Database Appliance X11 can run existing workloads faster, or run more workloads for no additional cost.

  • Oracle Database Appliance X11 delivers higher real-world performance: Oracle database transactions per second (TPS) have dramatically improved across the latest five ODA generations. ODA X11 HA delivers up to 3.6X higher real-world database TPS than ODA X7.

ODA is the only platform that allows Standard Edition 2 to run on servers that use CPU chips that are based on multi-chip modules​.

  • Standard Edition 2 is allowed on bare-metal and virtualized systems​. Oracle Database release 23ai databases are supported on DB systems (VM).
  • Uniquely allows running both Database Standard Edition 2 and Enterprise Edition on the same server to reduce licensing​ costs

ODA with KVM hard partitioning allows Oracle Databases to be licensed in a virtual machine, enabling the remaining ODA hardware to run applications​. This eliminates the need for dedicated application servers, reducing costs and enhancing latency.

ODA uniquely provides a complete Oracle database platform with automation for the full software and hardware stack
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Oracle Database Appliance is designed by the best Oracle experts in the world, the Oracle Database Engineering team.
Oracle Database Appliance standardizes, automates, hardens, and optimizes the full database software and hardware stack, ensuring full stack:

  • Simplicity
  • Reliability
  • Security
  • Performance
  • Support

In addition, and because the full ODA stack is identical across customers, all ODA customers benefit from the experience of others running on diverse database environments..

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On the contrary, multi-vendor solution for database are complex, fragile, and risky.

Customers or system integrators are responsible for integrating, optimizing, and securing all hardware and software layers. 

They must continuously test and certify updates across all components of the multi-vendor stack.

There is no single source for support.

Problems that span vendors are extremely difficult and time-consuming to resolve.

Oracle Database Appliance removes all these constraints by providing a complete Oracle database platform with automation for the full software and hardware stack.

 

Recent Oracle Database Appliance Software Enhancements

Oracle continually updates Oracle Database Appliance software to make existing and new systems easier to deploy, manage, and use. Some of the current and recent software enhancements include:

  • Oracle Database Appliance X11 ships with Oracle Database Appliance SW 19.25 and Oracle Linux 8 delivering improved performance, security, and management infrastructure.
  • Support for Multiple Databases on Oracle Database Appliance DB Systems. Supports the deployment of multiple databases in a DB system on Oracle Database Appliance using ODACLI commands and BUI. 
  • Support for Passwordless Multi-User Access on Oracle Database Appliance Bare Metal and DB Systems.Supports passwordless multi-user access, where you create multiple users with different roles that restrict them from accessing resources created by other users and also restrict the set of operations they can perform using ODACLI commands.
  • Support for Creating TDE-Enabled Databases on Oracle Database Appliance Using Oracle Key Vault. Supports the creation and restoration of TDE-enabled databases, with support for storing their encryption keys on Oracle Key Vault. You can either provide the credentials of users in Oracle Key Vault or directly provide an endpoint created on Oracle Key Vault to create the databases on Oracle Database Appliance.
  • Enterprise Edition High Availability. This Oracle Database Appliance exclusive capability lets you automatically protect single-instance Oracle databases. When creating databases on Oracle Database Appliance, you can enable or disable high-availability for single-instance Enterprise Edition Oracle Database.
  • Migrating and Registering TDE-Enabled Databases. You can easily migrate Oracle databases with Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) that are created outside the Oracle Database Appliance framework into your Oracle Database Appliance deployment using the “odacli register-database” command. After successful registration of the TDE-enabled database, the lifecycle management of databases and TDE wallets are supported, similar to any TDE database created using Oracle Database Appliance.
  • Registering Oracle Data Guard on Oracle Database Appliance. You can migrate existing Oracle Data Guard configuration and register with Oracle Database Appliance using integrated Oracle Data Guard configuration capabilities. 
  • Oracle Database Appliance multi-user access. Multi-user access enhances the security of your appliance and provides an efficient mechanism for role separation. With multi-user access, you can provide separate access to database administrators to manage databases and create multiple users with different roles that restrict them from accessing resources created by other users and restrict the operations they can perform.

 

Summary

Oracle Database Appliance X11 delivers greater value than multi-vendor platforms by providing an easy-to-deploy and use solution for Oracle Database workloads. It includes more powerful CPU cores, faster memory speed, and higher overall performance, starting at the same price as the previous generation system. This allows you to run existing workloads faster or more Oracle Database workloads in less time and with less infrastructure than ever before. When using Oracle Database Appliance, the database license cost savings alone can pay for the ODA hardware ​and the additional savings from labor, system software, automation, reliability, and data compression further add to ODA’s value.

To learn more, please visit the Oracle Database Appliance website, or contact your Oracle Sales team to find out how Oracle Database Appliance can help you.