Which type or types of network traffic are transported over the internal InfiniBand interconnect in Exadata
Database Machine X5?
A.
IDB protocol traffic, clustered ASM traffic, and clustered database instance traffic
B.
IDB protocol traffic and clustered database instance traffic only
C.
IDB protocol traffic and clustered ASM instance traffic only
D.
Both clustered ASM and clustered database instance traffic only
E.
IDB protocol traffic only
Explanation:
Oracle Exadata uses the Intelligent Database protocol (iDB) to transfer data between Database Node and
Storage Cell Node.
iDB is used to ship SQL operations down to the Exadata cells for execution and to return query result sets to the database kernel.