Additional Infiniband Network Requirements And Specifications; Transceivers And Cables; Hca, Port Specifications And Cable Requirements - Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Owner's Manual

Table 6-3
Optical Module on
Exalogic's Sun
Network QDR
InfiniBand Gateway
Switch
QSFP module
QSFP module

6.6.7 Additional InfiniBand Network Requirements and Specifications

Table 6-4
Table 6-4
Component/Item
InfiniBand quad data rate (QDR) host
channel adapters (HCAs)
Unused ports in (Sun Network QDR
InfiniBand Gateway Switches (NM2-GW
leaf switches)
Unused ports in Sun Datacenter
InfiniBand Switch (NM2-36P) spine switch
Note: This switch is used in multirack
configurations only.

Transceivers and Cables

Cable Needed
QSFP MTP to 4 LC
A minimum of one
optical cable per
NM2-GW is needed,
but two cables per
NM2-GW are
recommended.
QSFP – QSFP
A minimum of one
optical cable per
NM2-GW is needed,
but two cables per
NM2-GW are
recommended.
lists additional InfiniBand specifications and cable requirements.

HCA, Port Specifications and Cable Requirements

Understand Network Requirements and Configuration 6-15
Introduction to Oracle Exalogic Network Configuration
Ethernet Switch Transceiver Needed
Vendor
A Sun Oracle switch
or a 10 GbE standard
switch from a third-
party vendor
A Sun Oracle switch
or a 10 GbE standard
switch from a third-
party vendor
Exalogic Exalogic Exalogic
Machine Machine Machine
Full Rack Half Quarter
Rack Rack
30 16 8
0 6 16
36 0 Not
applicable
For Sun Oracle
switch: x2129/3 SFP
+/XFP SR module
For third-party
switches: SFP+/XFP
module provided by
the switch vendor
For Sun Oracle
switch: x2124A QSFP
module
For third-party
switches: QSFP
module provided by
the switch vendor
Note: Exalogic ships
with QSFP
transceivers, by
default. Customers
may use them on the
data center switch
side if they use a Sun
Oracle 10GbE switch,
such as the Sun
Network 10 GbE
Switch 72p.
Two
Exalogic
Machines
60
6
4