Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure - X 11M and X 11MV - Version 1.8 - Overview

Nov 1, 2026

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Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure and Exadata Cloud Infrastructure X 11M and X 11MV describe Oracle’s cloud database offering built on Exadata hardware. The service combines Oracle Database with Exadata to provide simplicity, elasticity, and cloud economics, while supporting fully featured Oracle Enterprise Edition databases. It is co-managed by Oracle and customers, offering root access and full DBA privileges. The infrastructure enables high performance and availability for migrations, dedicated single-tenant isolation, and automation that reduces operational effort. The document highlights Exadata’s OLTP, DW, analytics, AI, and hybrid workloads, and explains X 11M/X 11MV upgrades such as faster CPU, DDR5, PCIe NVMe flash, XRMEM via RDMA, and expanded VM capabilities.

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Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure

Exadata Database Service overview

Customer control and co-management

Exadata Cloud Infrastructure X 11M and X 11MV

Platform capabilities and migration benefits

Workload support and deployment options

What’s New in X 11M and X 11MV

Hardware and performance upgrades

Exadata Hardware Architecture

Storage tiering and connectivity

Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure X 11 M and X 11 MV Exadata Cloud Infrastructure X 11 M and X 11 MV in Public Cloud Run Oracle’s most powerful, available, and flexible cloud database service – Oracle Exadata Database Service – on dedicated Exadata Cloud Infrastructure, the most powerful, available, and secure database cloud platform, with the simplicity agility, and elasticity of a public cloud deployment. Exadata Database Service Exadata Database Service combines the world’s \#1 database technology, Oracle Database, with Exadata, in a choice of either the public cloud or customer data centers, delivering the simplicity, elasticity, and economics of a cloud-based deployment. It offers fully-featured Oracle Enterprise Edition databases with pay per use software licensing on Exadata subscribed to as a service. Exadata Database Service is co-managed by Oracle and customers. Oracle manages the infrastructure while customers manage their operating environments. Customers have the flexibility to control many aspects of the service, which provides capabilities similar to their on-premises environments while facilitating the transition from on-premises to the cloud with no application changes. Powerful cloud automation enables customers to manage the service with minimal effort while still providing full access to database instances, database homes, and Grid Infrastructure. Customers have root access to the virtual machines (VMs) hosting the databases in the Exadata database servers, as well as full DBA privileges for the databases they provision. Customers can configure the database VMs as required and deploy additional software, such as backup and monitoring agents. Exadata Cloud Infrastructure Exadata Cloud Infrastructure is the premiere public cloud platform for Oracle databases. It supports two Oracle Database cloud services; Exadata Database Service and Autonomous Database. Exadata Cloud Infrastructure offers the same extreme performance and availability realized by thousands of organizations deploying Exadata on-premises. Full Oracle Database compatibility simplifies and reduces the risk of critical cloud migrations. With online server expansion and support for the largest workloads, Exadata Cloud Infrastructure helps maximize business agility and operational flexibility as workload requirements grow. The combination of cloud economics, powerful “We migrated over 100 custom application environments andover 50 databases from a legacy data center to OCI with Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure in half of the expected time for greater stability, security, and efficiency.” Bradley Mills Head of Software Engineering Talcott Resolution “We are very satisfied with the Exadata servers in Oracle Cloud. They meet our requirements for data throughput, data volume, complexity, and response time.” Jochen Hinderberger Senior Director Production & SW Support Systems Renesas Design Germany GmbH 1 Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure X 11M and X 11MV / Version 1.8 Copyright © 2026, Oracle and/or its affiliates / Public automation and infrastructure maintained by Oracle experts also lowers IT costs, eliminates most operational tasks, and frees personnel to focus on core business functions. Exadata Cloud Infrastructure is dedicated to a single tenant, providing complete isolation from other cloud customers. Exadata: The Best Database on the Best Cloud Platform Exadata has been the industry leading database platform for over a decade and is established as the best performing, highest available, and most secure platform for deploying Oracle databases. Exadata was designed from the beginning as a cloud architecture featuring scale-out database servers and scale-out intelligent storage servers. It delivers many smart hardware and software innovations for Oracle databases, distinguishing itself from generic converged systems. Exadata has been engineered to run

FAQs

What does Exadata Database Service combine and what benefits does it target?

It combines Oracle Database with Exadata to deliver simplicity, elasticity, and cloud-based economics, while supporting fully featured Oracle Enterprise Edition databases on a pay-per-use model.

How is Exadata Database Service managed between Oracle and customers?

Oracle manages the infrastructure, while customers manage their operating environments. Customers receive root access to database VM hosts and full DBA privileges for provisioned databases.

What are the key enhancements in Exadata Cloud Infrastructure X 11M and X 11MV?

The document highlights more and faster CPU cores, faster DDR5 memory, faster PCIe NVMe flash, new Exadata Remote Direct Memory Access memory (XRMEM), higher storage capacity, lower storage latency, and scaling capabilities for VMs and VM clusters.

Nov 1, 2026

Uploaded by Kyle