Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Owner'S Manual

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Learn About the Exalogic Machine
This chapter describes the features and hardware components of an Exalogic machine.
It also includes usage information related to the Exalogic machine.
This chapter contains these topics:
• About Oracle Exalogic
• Hardware Components of Exalogic
• Exalogic Machine Rack Layout
• Operational Procedures for Exalogic Machines
1.1 About Oracle Exalogic
Oracle Exalogic is an integrated hardware and software system designed to provide a
complete platform for a wide range of application types and widely varied workloads.
Exalogic is intended for large-scale, performance-sensitive, mission-critical application
deployments. It combines Oracle Fusion Middleware software and industry-standard
Sun hardware to enable a high degree of isolation between concurrently deployed
applications, which have varied security, reliability, and performance requirements.
Exalogic enables customers to develop a single environment that can support end-to-
end consolidation of their entire applications portfolio.
Exalogic is designed to fully leverage an internal InfiniBand fabric that connects all of
the processing, storage, memory and external network interfaces within an Exalogic
machine to form a single, large computing device. Each Exalogic machine is connected
to the customer's data center networks via 10 GbE (traffic) and GbE (management)
interfaces.
Customers can integrate Exalogic machines with an Exadata machine or additional
Exalogic machines by using the available InfiniBand expansion ports and optional
data center switches. The InfiniBand technology used by Exalogic offers significantly
high bandwidth, low latency, hardware-level reliability, and security. If you are using
applications that follow Oracle's best practices for highly scalable, fault-tolerant
systems, you do not need to make any application architecture or design changes to
benefit from Exalogic. You can connect many Exalogic machines or a combination of
Exalogic machines and Oracle Exadata Database Machines to develop a single, large-
scale environment.
1.1.1 Features of Exalogic
Exalogic includes the following features:
• complete, pre-assembled, and certified system for maximum performance
• best platform for end-to-end consolidation of large-scale application deployments
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