The Exalytics In-memory Machine T5-8 is no longer available for purchase. If you want to run the Exalytics software on a SPARC-based platform, you can install and run the Exalytics software in an Application Domain in SuperCluster M8 or SuperCluster M7 (either an Application Dedicated Domain or an Application I/O Domain). The following applies when running the Exalytics software in an Application Domain in SuperCluster M8 or SuperCluster M7:
You can run the Exalytics software on any Application Domain that you have currently set up for other purposes. In addition, the Exalytics software, and therefore the Application Domain running the Exalytics software, does not have to be mirrored or clustered.
As an example, consider a configuration where you have a SuperCluster M8 or SuperCluster M7 with a single compute server, with the following asymmetric configuration:
PDomain 1 — Contains one CMIOU, with 32 cores and 512 GB of memory, configured with one Database Dedicated Domain
PDomain 2 — Contains three CMIOUs, each with 32 cores and 512 GB of memory, configured with the following domains:
One Database Dedicated Domain, using resources from one CMIOU (32 cores and 512 GB of memory)
One Application Dedicated Domain, using resources from the remaining two CMIOUs (64 cores and 1 TB of memory total)
In this example configuration, the Database Dedicated Domains on PDomains 1 and 2 run Oracle DB RAC (are part of a cluster), and the Application Dedicated Domain on PDomain 2 is available to run the Exalytics software.
Similar configurations are supported for Application Domains running the Exalytics software, such as a second compute server that is set up only with Application Domains running the Exalytics software, or Application I/O Domains that are created specifically to run Exalytics software.
You can set up an entire SuperCluster specifically to run only Exalytics software. In this situation, only Application Domains are configured, with each Application Domain running Exalytics software. Every SuperCluster M8 and SuperCluster M7 has a minimum of three storage servers, which are accessed only by Database Domains. However, you are only required to license Exadata Storage Server disks when they are actually used, which is not be the case in this scenario.
In practice, though, it is more sensible to include two or more Database Domains to take advantage of the included Exadata Storage Servers.
You must install the following assembler package in order to use Exalytics software on an Application Domain in your SuperCluster M8 or SuperCluster M7:
# pkg install pkg:/developer/assembler
Refer to the Exalytics documentation to install and set up the Exalytics software on an Application Domain, available here: