16 Use InfiniBand Partitions in Exalogic Physical Environments

This chapter describes how to use InfiniBand partitions for network isolation on Exalogic's InfiniBand fabric in the Exalogic physical environment.

Note:

If you are connecting your Exalogic machine to Oracle Exadata Database Machine on the same InfiniBand fabric, you must use the default partition for data traffic between Exalogic machine and Oracle Exadata Database Machine. In this scenario, if you wish to implement network isolation, you can configure IP subnets on the default IPoIB network interface.

In addition, see Important Notes for Combined Exalogic-Exadata Fabric Users for more information about using partitions in this scenario.

This chapter contains the following sections:

• Overview of Partitioning

• Understand Partition Keys

• Before You Begin

• Move from a Default Partition to a Custom Partition

• Create an IPoIB Partition and Adding Ports

• Delete a Partition

• Create a Partition for EoIB and Associating the pkey with a VNIC and VLAN

• Perform the Post-Configuration Steps

• Important Notes for Combined Exalogic-Exadata Fabric Users

• Partitioning Limitations