Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

What's New in This Guide

• New and Changed Features for 12c (12.1.3)
• Other Significant Changes in This Document for 12c (12.1.3)
• New and Changed Features for 12c (12.1.2)
• Other Significant Changes in This Document for 12c (12.1.2)

1 Deploying Coherence Applications

• 1.1 Deploying Standalone Coherence Applications
  • 1.1.1 Deploying a Data Tier
  • 1.1.2 Deploying an Application Tier
  • 1.1.3 Deploying a Proxy Tier for Extend Clients
  • 1.1.4 Deploying Extend Clients
• 1.2 Deploying Coherence Applications to WebLogic Server
  • 1.2.1 Overview of the WebLogic Server Coherence Integration
  • 1.2.2 Packaging Coherence Applications for WebLogic Server
    • 1.2.2.1 Building a Coherence GAR Module
    • 1.2.2.2 Packaging a GAR Module in an EAR Module
  • 1.2.3 Setting Up a WebLogic Server Domain Topology for Coherence
    • 1.2.3.1 Create a Coherence Cluster
    • 1.2.3.2 Create Coherence Deployment Tiers
    • 1.2.3.3 Create Managed Coherence Servers For a Coherence Deployment Tier
  • 1.2.4 Deploying Coherence Applications To a WebLogic Server Domain
  • 1.2.5 Performing Basic Coherence Administration Tasks
• 1.3 Deploying Coherence Applications to an Application Server (Generic)
  • 1.3.1 Deploying Coherence as an Application Server Library
  • 1.3.2 Deploying Coherence in a Java EE Module
    • 1.3.2.1 Deploying Coherence Within an EAR
    • 1.3.2.2 Deploying Coherence Within a WAR
• 1.4 Running Multiple Applications in a Single Cluster
  • 1.4.1 Specifying a Scope Name
  • 1.4.2 Scoping Applications in WebLogic Server
  • 1.4.3 Scoping Applications in a Java EE Environment (Generic)
    • 1.4.3.1 Isolating Applications in a JavaEE Environment
    • 1.4.3.2 Sharing Application Data in a JavaEE Environment
  • 1.4.4 Scoping Applications in a Standalone Environment
  • 1.4.5 Providing a Custom Scope Resolver

2 Platform-Specific Deployment Considerations

• 2.1 Deploying to Oracle HotSpot JVMs
  • 2.1.1 Heap Sizes
  • 2.1.2 AtomicLong
  • 2.1.3 OutOfMemoryError
• 2.2 Deploying to IBM JVMs
  • 2.2.1 OutOfMemoryError
  • 2.2.2 Heap Sizing
• 2.3 Deploying to Linux
  • 2.3.1 TSC High Resolution Timesource
  • 2.3.2 Unique Multicast Address on Distinct Clusters
• 2.4 Deploying to Solaris
  • 2.4.1 Solaris 10 (x86 and SPARC)
  • 2.4.2 Solaris 10 Networking
  • 2.4.3 Solaris Network Interface Cards
  • 2.4.4 Solaris Link Aggregation
• 2.5 Deploying to Windows
  • 2.5.1 Performance Tuning
  • 2.5.2 Personal Firewalls
  • 2.5.3 Disconnected Network Interface
• 2.6 Deploying to OS X
  • 2.6.1 Multicast and IPv6
  • 2.6.2 Unique Multicast Addresses and Ports
  • 2.6.3 Socket Buffer Sizing
• 2.7 Deploying to z/OS
  • 2.7.1 EBCDIC
  • 2.7.2 Multicast
• 2.8 Deploying to AIX
  • 2.8.1 Multicast and IPv6
  • 2.8.2 Unique Multicast Addresses and Ports
• 2.9 Deploying to Virtual Machines
  • 2.9.1 Multicast Connectivity
  • 2.9.2 Performance
  • 2.9.3 Fault Tolerance
• 2.10 Deploying to Cisco Switches
  • 2.10.1 Buffer Space and Packet Pauses
  • 2.10.2 Multicast Connectivity on Large Networks
  • 2.10.3 Multicast Outages
  • 2.10.4 Multicast Time-to-Live
• 2.11 Deploying to Foundry Switches
  • 2.11.1 Multicast Connectivity
• 2.12 Deploying to IBM BladeCenters
  • 2.12.1 MAC Address Uniformity and Load Balancing

3 Performing a Network Performance Test

• 3.1 Running the Datagram Test Utility
• 3.2 How to Test Network Performance
  • 3.2.1 Performing a Point-to-Point Test
    • 3.2.1.1 Performing a Bidirectional Test
  • 3.2.2 Performing a Distributed Test
• 3.3 Understanding Report Statistics

4 Performing a Multicast Connectivity Test

• 4.1 Running the Multicast Test Utility
• 4.2 How to Test Multicast
• 4.3 Troubleshooting Multicast Communications

5 Performance Tuning

• 5.1 Operating System Tuning
  • 5.1.1 Socket Buffer Sizes
  • 5.1.2 High Resolution timesource (Linux)
  • 5.1.3 Datagram size (Microsoft Windows)
  • 5.1.4 Thread Scheduling (Microsoft Windows)
  • 5.1.5 Swapping
  • 5.1.6 Load Balancing Network Interrupts (Linux)
• 5.2 Network Tuning
  • 5.2.1 Network Interface Settings
  • 5.2.2 Network Infrastructure Settings
  • 5.2.3 Switch and Subnet Considerations
  • 5.2.4 Ethernet Flow-Control
  • 5.2.5 Path MTU
  • 5.2.6 10GbE Considerations
• 5.3 JVM Tuning
  • 5.3.1 Basic Sizing Recommendation
  • 5.3.2 Heap Size Considerations
    • 5.3.2.1 General Guidelines
    • 5.3.2.2 Moving the Cache Out of the Application Heap
  • 5.3.3 Garbage Collection Monitoring
• 5.4 Coherence Communication Tuning
  • 5.4.1 Validation
• 5.5 Data Access Patterns
  • 5.5.1 Data Access Distribution (hot spots)
  • 5.5.2 Cluster-node Affinity
  • 5.5.3 Read/Write Ratio and Data Sizes
  • 5.5.4 Interleaving Cache Reads and Writes

6 Production Checklist

• 6.1 Datagram and Multicast Recommendations
• 6.2 Network Recommendations
• 6.3 Cache Size Calculation Recommendations
• 6.4 Hardware Recommendations
• 6.5 Operating System Recommendations
• 6.6 JVM Recommendations
• 6.7 Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Recommendations
• 6.8 Security Recommendations
• 6.9 Application Instrumentation Recommendations
• 6.10 Coherence Modes and Editions
• 6.11 Coherence Operational Configuration Recommendations
• 6.12 Coherence Cache Configuration Recommendations
• 6.13 Large Cluster Configuration Recommendations
• 6.14 Death Detection Recommendations

A Log Message Glossary

• A.1 TCMP Log Messages
• A.2 Configuration Log Messages
• A.3 Partitioned Cache Service Log Messages