2014/01/06

Exalogic Hardware

Exalogic Hardware Components and layout:
Exalogic machines consist of compute nodes, a storage appliance as well as required InfiniBand and Ethernet networking components.
Each machine has the same rack size(width/highth/length).

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:
  • X2-2: Sun Fire X4170 M2
  • X3-2: Sun Server X3-2
  • X4-2: Sun Server X4-2



30 16 8 4
Storage Appliance:
  • X2-2 and X3-2: Dual controller Sun ZFS Storage 7320 appliance (60 TB)
  • X4-2: 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)
  • X3-2 and X4-2: 48-port Cisco Catalyst 4948E-F-S switch (part number: 7023685)
1 1 1 1










Redundant power distribution units (for the available PDU options, see PDUs in Exalogic)
2 2 2 2


Oracle Exalogic Hardware Evolution:

X4-2 overall:
             



Resources:
Exalogic Machine introduction
Exalogic X4-2 overview
Exalogic X4-2 Datasheet:it consists of specific configuration of X4-2 and the Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software.

X2-2 live Video