Oracle Exalogic is an integrated hardware and software system designed to provide a complete platform for a wide range of application types and widely varied workloads. Exalogic is intended for large-scale, performance-sensitive, mission-critical application deployments. It combines Oracle Fusion Middleware software and industry-standard Sun hardware to enable a high degree of isolation between concurrently deployed applications, which have varied security, reliability, and performance requirements. Exalogic enables customers to develop a single environment that can support end-to-end consolidation of their entire applications portfolio.
Exalogic is designed to fully leverage an internal InfiniBand fabric that connects all of the processing, storage, memory and external network interfaces within an Exalogic machine to form a single, large computing device. Each Exalogic machine is connected to the customer's data center networks via 10 GbE (traffic) and GbE (management) interfaces.
Customers can integrate Exalogic machines with an Exadata machine or additional Exalogic machines by using the available InfiniBand expansion ports and optional data center switches. The InfiniBand technology used by Exalogic offers significantly high bandwidth, low latency, hardware-level reliability, and security. If you are using applications that follow Oracle's best practices for highly scalable, fault-tolerant systems, you do not need to make any application architecture or design changes to benefit from Exalogic. You can connect many Exalogic machines or a combination of Exalogic machines and Oracle Exadata Database Machines to develop a single, large-scale environment.
Exalogic includes the following features:
complete, pre-assembled, and certified system for maximum performance
best platform for end-to-end consolidation of large-scale application deployments
ready to deploy
linearly scalable
enterprise-ready
enterprise-level software and hardware support