Hardware Components Of Exalogic - Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Owner's Manual

Hardware Components of Exalogic

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1.2 Hardware Components of Exalogic
The Exalogic machines consist of compute nodes, a storage appliance, and InfiniBand
and Ethernet networking components. The number of these components in each
machine varies based on the hardware configuration.
Table 1-1
Component
Sun Rack II 1242
Compute nodes:
•
Oracle Server X6–2
• Previous versions of the hardware: Sun Fire X4170
M2 (X2–2), Sun Server X3-2, Sun Server X4-2, and
Oracle Server X5-2.
Storage Appliance:
• X6-2: Oracle ZS5–ES storage appliance
• X2-2 and X3-2: Dual controller Sun ZFS Storage
7320 appliance (60 TB)
• X4-2 and X5-2: Oracle ZS3-ES storage appliance
Sun Network QDR InfiniBand Gateway Switches
(NM2-GW)
Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Switch 36 (NM2-36P)
Cisco Ethernet management switch
• X2-2: 48-port Cisco Catalyst 4948 switch (part
number: 371-4784-N)
• X6-2, X5-2, X4-2, and X2-2: 48-port Cisco Catalyst
4948E-F-S switch (part number: 7023685)
Redundant Power Distribution Units (PDU). See
in Exalogic
You can connect up to eight Exalogic machines, or a combination of Exalogic and
Exadata on the same InfiniBand fabric, without the need for any external switches.
1-2 Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Machine Owner's Guide
Note:
The hardware components listed in this chapter are for Exalogic machines
shipped from the factory.
Hardware Components of Exalogic
for the available PDU options.
Full Half
Rack Rack
1 1
30 16
1 1
4 2
1 1
1 1
PDUs 2 2
Quarter Eighth
Rack Rack
1 1
8 4
1 1
2 2
0 0
1 1
2 2