5.3 Prerequisites for Connecting Exalogic Machine to External Ethernet
Network
Depending on the type of your Ethernet device, you should use cables and
transceivers to connect an Exalogic machine to your existing network. For more
information, see Connectivity Between Exalogic Machine and External LAN Through
Sun Network QDR InfiniBand Gateway Switch.
5.4 Initial Network Configuration of Exalogic Machine
After you connect your Exalogic machine to the external Ethernet network using
cables and transceivers, you must configure the following Exalogic components to add
them to the network:
1.
Mandatory: Cisco Ethernet Switch
2.
Optional: vNICs on Sun Network QDR InfiniBand Gateway Switches for Ethernet
over InfiniBand (EoIB) connectivity, if necessary
3.
Mandatory: Compute nodes
4. Mandatory: Storage heads
5. Mandatory: Sun Network QDR InfiniBand Gateway Switches
6. Optional: Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Switch 36, if you are connecting your
Exalogic machine to another Exalogic machine rack or to an Oracle Exadata
Database Machine rack
Note:
You can use the Oracle Exalogic Configuration Utility set of tools and scripts
to configure the compute nodes, storage heads, and Sun Network QDR
InfiniBand Gateway Switches. For more information about Exalogic
Configuration Utility, see Configure the Exalogic Machine Using ECU.
You must configure the Cisco Ethernet Switch manually. For more
information, see Configuring the Cisco Ethernet Switch.
For information about configuring VNICs for Ethernet connectivity, see
Configure Ethernet Over InfiniBand.
For information about configuring the Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Switch 36
manually in multirack scenarios, see Use the Sun Datacenter InfiniBand
Switch 36 in Multirack Configurations.
5.4.1 Configuring the Cisco Ethernet Switch
The host name, IP address, DNS and NTP configurations must be configured for the
Cisco Ethernet switch. Before configuring the switch, note the following:
• The Cisco Ethernet switch should not be connected until the running
configuration has been verified, and any necessary changes have been made by
the network administrator.
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