Why Exadata for Oracle Databases?

Many time it comes in our mind that why we should go for Exadata, what benefits we can get if we go for Exadata so here we have given some views based on the Exadata architecture, experience and features. This is the most common question in interview.



No doubt there can be many more advantages than what we have given below as we have only given high level views.

  • Exadata is high performance and high available pre-configured device.
  • It consists of servers,storage networking and software in single pre-configured box which is massively scalable, secure and redundant.
  • Multiple compression tiers are available on Exadata which can help customer to compress data as per business requirement to save storage space.
  • Implementation time is very less compare to non-Exadata systems as it's comes as pre-configured and pre-tested.
  • In case on any issue with the Exadata than we need to communicate with only single vendor which doesn't required to contact multiple vendor like non-Exadata setup so solution of issue could be done quicker.
  • Only DMA (Database Machine Administrator) would be required to manage the Exadata so it can manage with lower TCO which reduce the huge cost of manageability.
  • Exadata provides extreme performance for both DW and OLTP databases which is making it and ideal platform for database consolidation.

Top 14 Commands for Exadata Health Check

There are multiple ways, utilities or commands to monitor Exadata machine. Here we have mentioned the list of dcli commands which can help to get the list of cell alerts, resource consumption details and configuration details in shortest time.


Exadata alert

dcli -l root -g ~/cell_group "cellcli -e list metriccurrent where alertState!=\'Normal\'"

Exadata cell CPU utilization

dcli -l root -g ~/cell_group "cellcli -e list metriccurrent CL_CPUT"

Exadata cells flashdisk with status NOT present

dcli -l root -g ~/cell_group "cellcli -e list physicaldisk attributes name, id, slotnumber where disktype=\"flashdisk\" and status=\'not present\'"

Exadata cell current temperature

dcli -l root -g ~/cell_group 'cellcli -e list cell detail' | egrep temperature 

Exadata alert history

dcli -l root -g ~/cell_group "cellcli -e list metrichistory where alertState!=\'Normal\'" 

Exadata cells battery replacement checks

dcli -l root -g ~/cell_group '/opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64 -adpbbucmd -aALL' |grep replaced

Exadata cells harddisk with status NOT present

dcli -l root -g ~/cell_group "cellcli -e list physicaldisk attributes name, id, slotnumber where disktype=\"harddisk\" and status=\'not present\'" 

Exadata cells services checks

dcli -l root -g ~/cell_group 'cellcli -e list cell detail' | egrep '(cellsrvStatus)|(msStatus)|(rsStatus)'

Exadata cells memory checks

dcli -l root -g ~/cell_group --vmstat="-a 3 2"

Exadata physical memory checks

dcli -g ~/all_group -l root "cat /proc/meminfo | egrep '^MemTotal:|^MemFree:|^Cached:

Exadata physical disk checks

dcli -g ~/all_group -l root /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64 AdpAllInfo -aALL | grep "Device Present" -A 8

Exadata cell fan status

dcli -l root -g ~/cell_group 'cellcli -e list cell detail' | egrep fan 

Exadata storage cell model detail

dcli -l root -g ~/cell_group 'cellcli -e list cell detail' | egrep makeModel -- For cell

dcli -l root -g ~/dbs_group 'dmidecode -s system-product-name'  -- For DB node

Exadata cells power status

dcli -l root -g ~/cell_group 'cellcli -e list cell detail' | egrep power


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