8 Connecting Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine to Oracle Big Data Appliance

This chapter describes how to connect Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine and an Oracle Big Data Appliance together on the same InfiniBand fabric.

It contains the following sections:

• Hardware Requirements
  
• Software Requirements
  
• Physical Connectivity
  
• InfiniBand Connection Validation (Layer-2)
  
• IPoIB Configuration (Layer-3)
  
• IPoIB Validation