{"id":2910,"date":"2012-02-20T13:23:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T17:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onlineappsdba.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/20\/exalogic-for-beginners\/"},"modified":"2012-02-22T16:50:43","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T20:50:43","slug":"exalogic-for-beginners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineappsdba.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/20\/exalogic-for-beginners\/","title":{"rendered":"#Exalogic for Beginners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onlineappsdba.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/screen-shot-2012-02-16-at-222805.png\" title=\"Exalogic\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineappsdba.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/screen-shot-2012-02-16-at-222805.png\" alt=\"Exalogic\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This post covers overview of Exalogic Machine from Oracle&#8217;s <strong>Exa Family<\/strong> (<font color=\"#ff0000\">Exadata and Exalytics are other two products from Exa family<\/font>)<\/p>\n<p>Exalogic is pre-configured <strong>Hardware Machine<\/strong> with <strong>Operating System<\/strong> and <strong>Fusion Middleware<\/strong> (<font color=\"#ff0000\">Weblogic 11g, Coherence, JRockit\/Hotspot, Grid Control to manage WebLogic<\/font>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong>: <font color=\"#ff0000\">FMW Applications like SOA, WebCenter , OBIEE, IAM are <strong>NOT<\/strong> part of default Exalogic Machine<\/font>. You can install these products on Exalogic Server separately.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><u>Hardware in Exalogic includes<\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong>a) <u>Compute Nodes<\/u><\/strong>: These compute nodes provide processing to application and are collection of <strong>30 Sun Fire M2 servers<\/strong> (each compute node consisting of CPU, RAM, FlashFire Solid State Disk\/SSD, Inifiniband Ports and GB Ethernet Ports)<\/p>\n<p><strong>b) <u>Storage Appliances<\/u><\/strong> : These provide storage<strong> disk for applications <\/strong>to store data and collection of up to <strong>20 disks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong>: <font color=\"#ff0000\">Operating System is installed on Solid State Disk (SSD) on compute node and <strong>NOT<\/strong> on storage appliance<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong>c) <u>InfiniBand Switches<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0: \u00a0Connect to Host Channel Adapters (HCA) of Compute Nodes. These switches also act as Ethernet Gateway to connect Exalogic to external LAN over ethernet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>d) <u>InfiniBand Fabric<\/u><\/strong>: 32 Gb\/second InfiniBand Quad Data Rate (QDR) fabric for exalogic internal communication.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Applications running on one compute node communicates with applications running on another compute node using this InfiniBand network.<\/li>\n<li>Exalogic machines communicate with Oracle Exadata Database Machines for database connectivity via <strong>IPoIB<\/strong> (IP over InfiniBand)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>e) <u>Management Switch<\/u><\/strong> : For management traffic to monitor and manage Exalogic and application.<\/p>\n<p><strong>e) <u>Power Distribution Unit<\/u><\/strong> (PDU)<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Quarter\/Half\/Full\/Multi Rack<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onlineappsdba.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/multirack.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineappsdba.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/multirack.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Exalogic Server is available in<\/p>\n<p>a) <strong>Quarter Rack <\/strong>(8 Compute Nodes, 786 GB RAM, 1 storage appliance)<br \/>\nb) <strong>Half Rack<\/strong> (16 Compute Nodes, 1.5 TB RAM, 1 storage appliance)<br \/>\nc) <strong>Full Rack<\/strong> (30 Compute Nodes, 2.8 TB RAM, 1 storage appliance)<br \/>\nd) <strong>Multi Rack<\/strong> : You can connect up to eight Full racks to make Multi Rack Exalogic Server using InifiniBand (<strong>Spine Module<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Other Key Points to Exalogic<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>1.<\/strong> Solid State Disk on Compute Nodes is used for <font color=\"#ff0000\">Operating System<\/font> only<br \/>\n<strong>2.<\/strong> Disks on Storage Appliances are used to store application files and application data<br \/>\n<strong>3.<\/strong> InfiniBand provides network connectivity between compute nodes and storage appliances<br \/>\n<strong>4.<\/strong> Management switches isolates <strong>management &amp; monitoring traffic<\/strong> from <strong>client traffic<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>5.<\/strong> Exalogic (hosting Fusion Middleware) can also be connected to Exadata (hosting Database) using Infiniband (without need of any external switches)<br \/>\n<strong>6.<\/strong> Exalogic currently supports two operating systems <strong>Oracle Linux<\/strong> and <strong>Solaris Express<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onlineappsdba.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/onlineappsdba_4501.png\" title=\"onlineAppsDBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineappsdba.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/onlineappsdba_4501.png\" alt=\"onlineAppsDBA\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post covers overview of Exalogic Machine from Oracle&#8217;s Exa Family (Exadata and Exalytics are other two products from Exa 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