Connecting exadata and exalogic with infiniband

1. InfiniBand cabling
Oracle exaData & Exalitics
Johan Louwers

2. Oracle exaData
The Exadata Database Machine X2-8 is designed for database
deployments that require very large amounts of data, delivering
extreme performance and scalability for all applications including
Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), Data Warehousing (DW) and
consolidation of mixed workloads. It comes complete with two 8-
socket database servers, 14 Oracle Exadata Storage Servers,
InfiniBand switches and more than 5 terabytes of Exadata Smart
Flash Cache to support extremely fast transaction response times
and high throughput.
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3. Oracle exaLytics
The Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine is the industry‟s first engineered in
memory analytics machine that delivers no-limit, extreme performance for
Business Intelligence and Enterprise Performance Management applications.
The Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine hardware is a single server that is
optimally configured for in-memory analytics for business intelligence workloads
and includes powerful compute capacity, abundant memory, and fast networking
options.
The Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine features an optimized Oracle BI
Foundation suite (Oracle BI Foundation) and Oracle TimesTen In-Memory
Database for Exalytics.
Business Intelligence Foundation takes advantage of large memory, processors,
concurrency, storage, networking, operating system, kernel, and system
configuration of the Oracle Exalytics hardware. This optimization results in better
query responsiveness, higher user scalability and markedly lower TCO compared
to standalone software. The TimesTen In-Memory Database for Exalytics is an
optimized in-memory analytic database, with features exclusively available on
Oracle Exalytics platform.
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4. InfiniBand
InfiniBand is a switched fabric communications link used in high-performance
computing and enterprise data centers. Its features include high throughput,
low latency, quality of service and failover, and it is designed to be scalable.
The InfiniBand architecture specification defines a connection between
processor nodes and high performance I/O nodes such as storage devices.
Infiniband host bus adapters and network switches are manufactured by
Mellanox and Intel
Source: wikipedia
Source : http://www.hpcwire.com
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5. Oracle exaData full rack InfiniBand cabling
Spine switch
8 Database servers 8 Database servers
Leaf switch 1 Leaf switch 2
7 inter-switch links
14 storage cells 14 storage cells
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6. Oracle exaData full rack InfiniBand cabling
Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Switch 36
Leaf switches
Spine switch
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7. Oracle exaData InfiniBand connect to Exalytics
Spine switch
8 Database servers 8 Database servers
Leaf switch 1 Leaf switch 2
7 inter-switch links
14 storage cells 14 storage cells
Exalytics
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8. Oracle exaData InfiniBand connect to Exalytics
For high availability purposes,
connect the two ports of the
InfiniBand card, which is installed
in the Oracle Oracle Exalytics In-
Memory Machine, to separate leaf
switches of the Oracle Exadata
Database Machine.
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9. Contact information
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10. About Capgemini
With more than 120,000 people in 40 countries, Capgemini is one
of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and
outsourcing services. The Group reported 2011 global revenues
of EUR 9.7 billion.
Together with its clients, Capgemini creates and delivers
business and technology solutions that fit their needs and drive
the results they want. A deeply multicultural organization,
Capgemini has developed its own way of working, the
Collaborative Business ExperienceTM, and draws on Rightshore ®,
its worldwide delivery model.
Rightshore® is a trademark belonging to Capgemini
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