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Exadata Release 12.1.1.1.0 New Features

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 Objectives

After completing this lesson, you should be able to describe the

new features introduced in Exadata release 12.1.1.1.0.

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 Complete Exadata Feature Support for
Oracle Database 12c
• Full offload support:
– Smart scan
– Fast file creation
– Fast incremental backup
• Full IORM support:
– Non-CDB
– Multitenant architecture

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 Using Exadata I/O Resource Management
with Oracle Database 12c
• Non-CDB databases use IORM in the same way as version 11.2
databases
• To manage PDBs within a CDB: CDB resource plan in root

– New CDB resource plan:

—
Defined in the CDB root container Directive: Directive:
—
Allocates resources to PDBs based on share = 3 share = 1
utilization_limit = 75 utilization_limit = 100
shares
—
Can also enforce utilization limits for PDBs
—
Background resource usage is charged PDB: salespdb PDB: reppdb
to the root container
— Example: log file sync
—
Works in conjunction with other resource Intradatabase plan
in reppdb
plans
– Other resource plans are still available:
Directive: Directive:
—
Intradatabase plan is defined inside group percent = 75 group percent = 25
each PDB
—
Interdatabase plan allocates resources
across databases (including CDBs) Consumer group: Consumer group:
reporting ETL
—
Category plan still allocates resources
across categories

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 Support for Mixed Database Versions

• New CELLSRV architecture to support mixed database

versions:
– Separate offload servers for each major database release
– Offload requests are automatically sent to the appropriate
offload server
– No additional configuration or maintenance
Database Server 1 Exadata Storage Server

DB 11.2.X MS RS

DB 12.1.X
CELLSRV

Database Server 2 CELLOFLSRV CELLOFLSRV

DB 12.1.X 12.1.X 11.2.X

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 Cell to Cell Data Transfer

• Cell to Cell transfer in 11.2.X:

1. Database server sends read request to Cell A
2. Cell A sends data to database server
3. Data is stored in the database 1
server memory Database
Server
4. Database server sends data to Cell B 4
• Cell to Cell transfer in 12.1.X: 3
1. Database server sends 1
transfer request to Cell B
2. Cell B reads data from Cell A
2
– Lower network bandwidth
consumption
– Lower database server 2
resource usage
– Used by ASM resynchronization,
resilver, and rebalance operations Exadata Exadata
Storage Server A Storage Server B

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 Summary

In this lesson, you should have learned how to describe the

new features introduced in Exadata release 12.1.1.1.0.

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