Table 5-3 outlines the network participation of the components in the Exalogic machines. The table also provides information about their InfiniBand partition membership types. N/A indicates that the component is not part of that network.
Table 5-3 Network Membership of Exalogic Components
| Component | eth- admin | IPoIB- default | IPoIB- admin | IPoIB- storage | IPoIB- virt- admin | IPoIB- ovm- mgmt | IPoIB- vserver- shared- storage | EoIB- external- mgmt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Compute nodes |
Yes |
Full |
Both (full and limited) |
Both (full and limited) |
Both (full and limited) |
Both (full and limited) |
Both (full and limited) |
N/A |
|
ILOM on compute nodes |
Yes |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
|
Storage heads |
Yes |
Full |
Full |
Full |
N/A |
N/A |
Full |
N/A |
|
ILOM on storage heads |
Yes |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
|
Sun Network QDR InfiniBand Gateway Switches (NM2-GW) |
Yes |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
|
Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Switch 36 (NM2-36P) |
Yes |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
|
Cisco switch |
Yes |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
|
PDUs in the Exalogic machine |
Yes |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
|
Guest VMs |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Limited |
N/A |
Limited |
N/A |
|
Exalogic Control components (up to release 2.0.4.x.x) |
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|
Oracle Database VM |
N/A |
N/A |
Full |
Limited |
Full |
Full |
N/A |
N/A |
|
Enterprise Controller VM |
N/A |
N/A |
Full |
Limited |
Full |
Full |
Full |
Full |
|
Proxy Controller VMs |
Yes |
Full |
Full |
Limited |
Full |
Full |
Full |
N/A |
|
Oracle VM Manager VM |
N/A |
N/A |
Full |
Limited |
Full |
Full |
N/A |
Full |
|
Exalogic Control components (release 2.0.6.x.x) |
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|
Exalogic Control VM |
Yes |
N/A |
Full |
Full |
Full |
Full |
Full |
Full |
|
Proxy Controller VMs |
Yes |
Full |
Full |
Full |
Full |
Full |
Full |
N/A |
Note:
For guest VMs on Exalogic connecting to Oracle Exadata Database Machine, the default InfiniBand partition is used.