Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud - 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.
Note:
The hardware components listed in this chapter are for Exalogic machines
shipped from the factory.
Table 1-1 Hardware Components of Exalogic
Component Full
Rack
Half
Rack
Quarter
Rack
Eighth
Rack
Sun Rack II 1242 1 1 1 1
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.
30 16 8 4
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
1 1 1 1
Sun Network QDR InfiniBand Gateway Switches
(NM2-GW)
4 2 2 2
Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Switch 36 (NM2-36P) 1 1 0 0
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)
1 1 1 1
Redundant Power Distribution Units (PDU). See PDUs
in Exalogic for the available PDU options.
2 2 2 2
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.
Hardware Components of Exalogic
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