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https://cloud.oracle.com/en_US/bare-metal https://cloud.oracle.com/en_US/bare-metal, launched last year. Full IaaS Compute platform with both bare metal and VM

https://cloud.oracle.com/en_US/bare-metal https://cloud.oracle.com/en_US/bare-metal, launched last year. Full IaaS Compute platform with both bare metal and VM offerings, LBs, VPN, DBaaS (complete with full RAC and Exadata offerings), and so on. I'm not sure what I can / cannot say regarding customers we're picking up. Don't want to mess things up for the marketing team :) Some public material, of which more is bound to be forthcoming: https://www.oracle.com/uk/customers/yellowdog-1-iaas.html https://www.oracle.com/uk/customers/yellowdog-1-iaas.html

dopamean 9y ago
Thanks for the info!
eloff 9y ago
$5.40/hour to rent one of these bare-metal bad boys: OCPU: 36 Memory: 512GB Local Disk: 28.8TB NVMe SSD That easily mops the floor with AWS and Google on price/performance ratio for running high end database servers. I suppose that shouldn't come as a huge surprise that Oracle's cloud offering would be good for running databases.
- phonon 9y ago
  x1.16xlarge is 64 threads (174.5 ECU), 1 TB RAM, 2 TB SSD, for $6.669 per Hour. x1.32xlarge is double in every respect. i3.16xlarge is 64 threads (200 ECU), 488 GB RAM, 15 TB SSD, $4.992 per hour. Seems competitive.
  - travem 9y ago
    It's competitive if you don't actually need the 28.8TB NVMe SSD. If you actually need that much storage capacity and speed you are looking at provisioning 2 i3.16xlarge's and hoping your application can be distributed across multiple instances.
    - phonon 9y ago
      Sure, and if you need 1 or 2 TB of RAM, Oracle won't be able to help, and that's a much harder parameter to work around... Anyway, my point was that it didn't, IMHO, "easily mop the floor with AWS on price/performance ratio".
  - eloff 9y ago
    On RAM, yes. On random IOPS and throughput to the 28.8TB NVMe storage - no comparison.
    - phonon 9y ago
      Do you have some numbers? According to here [1] an i3.16xlarge will get you "up to to 3.3 million random IOPS at a 4 KB block size and up to 16 GB/second of disk throughput. " What does Oracle claim? I see here they say 1 million IOPS.[2] [1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-instance-type-update-t2-r4-f1-elastic-gpus-i3-c5/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-instance-type-update-t2... [2] http://www.biwasummit.org/biwa/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/844677-CloudCookbookv3.pdf http://www.biwasummit.org/biwa/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/84...

dopamean 9y ago

Thanks for the info!

eloff 9y ago

$5.40/hour to rent one of these bare-metal bad boys: OCPU: 36 Memory: 512GB Local Disk: 28.8TB NVMe SSD That easily mops the floor with AWS and Google on price/performance ratio for running high end database servers. I suppose that shouldn't come as a huge surprise that Oracle's cloud offering would be good for running databases.

phonon 9y ago
x1.16xlarge is 64 threads (174.5 ECU), 1 TB RAM, 2 TB SSD, for $6.669 per Hour. x1.32xlarge is double in every respect. i3.16xlarge is 64 threads (200 ECU), 488 GB RAM, 15 TB SSD, $4.992 per hour. Seems competitive.
- travem 9y ago
  It's competitive if you don't actually need the 28.8TB NVMe SSD. If you actually need that much storage capacity and speed you are looking at provisioning 2 i3.16xlarge's and hoping your application can be distributed across multiple instances.
  - phonon 9y ago
    Sure, and if you need 1 or 2 TB of RAM, Oracle won't be able to help, and that's a much harder parameter to work around... Anyway, my point was that it didn't, IMHO, "easily mop the floor with AWS on price/performance ratio".
- eloff 9y ago
  On RAM, yes. On random IOPS and throughput to the 28.8TB NVMe storage - no comparison.
  - phonon 9y ago
    Do you have some numbers? According to here [1] an i3.16xlarge will get you "up to to 3.3 million random IOPS at a 4 KB block size and up to 16 GB/second of disk throughput. " What does Oracle claim? I see here they say 1 million IOPS.[2] [1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-instance-type-update-t2-r4-f1-elastic-gpus-i3-c5/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-instance-type-update-t2... [2] http://www.biwasummit.org/biwa/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/844677-CloudCookbookv3.pdf http://www.biwasummit.org/biwa/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/84...