Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud is a standard data center building block that provides a fully integrated Private Cloud platform that is ideal for a wide range of mission-critical enterprise application workloads, from middleware and custom applications to packaged applications from Oracle and hundreds of 3rd party application and tool vendors.
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. The InfiniBand technology used by Exalogic offers significantly high bandwidth, low latency, hardware-level reliability, and security.
Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud offers several new features and benefits, including the following:
Supports virtualization.
Includes new management software components to aid in all aspects of hardware and software management for Exalogic's virtualization solution. These capabilities are included in a new software stack named Exalogic Control.
Offers a unified interface for interacting with the Exalogic platform to configure, use, and optimize infrastructure resources.
Allows applications and management tools to interact with the Exalogic platform via Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) APIs that are exposed to customers.
Manages resource supply, configuration, and utilization.