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:
Mandatory: Cisco Ethernet Switch
Optional: vNICs on Sun Network QDR InfiniBand Gateway Switches for Ethernet over InfiniBand (EoIB) connectivity, if necessary
Mandatory: Compute nodes
Mandatory: Storage heads
Mandatory: Sun Network QDR InfiniBand Gateway Switches
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.
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.
The Cisco Ethernet switch should not be connected to the network until the IP addresses on all components have been configured in the Exalogic machine. This is to prevent any duplicate IP address conflicts which are possible due to the default addresses set in the components when shipped.
The following procedure describes how to configure the Cisco Ethernet switch: