5 Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software

The Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software is a set of software components, tools, and documentation required to make the Exalogic Elastic Cloud Hardware functional and usable as a platform for Oracle's Fusion Middleware and business applications.

The Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software license grants the right to use all supported features of the software and firmware installed on the Exalogic Elastic Cloud Hardware by Oracle at the time of manufacture.

There are no supported means of operating the Exalogic Elastic Cloud Hardware that does not require use of the Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software. The principal components of the Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software are as follows:

• Exalogic Base Image: a collection of device drivers, device firmware, software libraries and configuration files that allow other software products to make use of the Exalogic Elastic Cloud Hardware and ensure the optimal performance and reliability of the system. Portions of this software extend the Oracle Linux and Oracle Solaris bootable operating system images that are required to operate the Exalogic Elastic Cloud hardware.

• Oracle Traffic Director: an optimized software load balancer feature providing a highly available, high performance routing, caching and network traffic shaping capability for Exalogic.

  Oracle Traffic Director includes the following restricted use licenses:

  • Restricted Use License Oracle WebLogic Server Enterprise Edition Standard Edition restricted to WebLogic Server to be used as a host to provide Java EE runtime environment for Oracle Traffic Director

• Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder: enables rapid configuration and provisioning of multi-tier application topologies onto virtualized and cloud environments.

  Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder includes the following restricted use licenses:

  • Restricted Use License Oracle WebLogic Enterprise Edition restricted to WebLogic Server to be used as a host to provide Java EE runtime environment for Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Deployer in Exalogic Control

  • Restricted Use License Oracle Coherence Enterprise Edition to be used for persistence, state management architecture and high availability for Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Deployer functionality in Exalogic Control

• Exalogic System Utilities: A collection of utilities that are used to configure and validate the configuration, physical state, firmware and software of the Exalogic system.

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software also includes a license-restricted set of features that enables improved performance and reliability of Fusion Middleware products. For information about using these optimizations on the Exalogic Elastic Cloud, see "Enabling Exalogic-Specific Enhancements in Oracle WebLogic Server 11g Release 1" in Exalogic Elastic Cloud Enterprise Deployment Guide: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E18476_01/doc.220/e18479/optimization.htm

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software has the following performance optimization entitlements for each Fusion Middleware product identified below.

This chapter contains the following sections:

• Oracle Coherence
  
• Oracle WebLogic Server
  
• Oracle Tuxedo
  
• Use of Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software on the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance and Oracle Private Cloud at Customer
  

Oracle Coherence

• Oracle Coherence Optimizations for Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software

Oracle WebLogic Server

• Input/ Output and Work Manager Optimizations for Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software

• JDBC and Data Source Optimizations for Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software

• Cluster State Replication Optimizations for Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software

• Socket Direct Protocol for Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software

• Server and Service Migration Performance Optimizations for Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software

• Java Server Page Factory Caching Optimizations for Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software

• Oracle HTTP Client Optimizations for Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software

Oracle Tuxedo

• Oracle Tuxedo Optimization for Inter-node Communication

• Socket Direct Protocol for Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software

• Oracle Tuxedo Optimization for Lock Mechanism

Use of Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software on the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance and Oracle Private Cloud at Customer

Customers migrating their middleware or application deployments from Oracle Exalogic to the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance or Oracle Private Cloud at Customer are granted the right to use their Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software license on both the Oracle Exalogic and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance (or Oracle Private Cloud at Customer) for a period of six months to facilitate the migration, so long as technical support is maintained on the license. During this period of "dual use", the license may only be used for production on one of these systems.

Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software may be used on the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance and Oracle Private Cloud at Customer.

Due to differences in the hardware/software infrastructure, the components and entitlements that are not supported on the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance or Oracle Private Cloud at Customer are listed in the following table:

Table 5-1 Components and Entitlements Not Supported on Oracle Private Cloud Appliance or Oracle Private Cloud at Customer

Components of Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software	Performance Optimization Entitlements
Exalogic Base Image Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Exalogic System Utilities	WebLogic Server JDBC and Data Source Optimizations (Active GridLink for RAC is supported) Socket Direct Protocol for Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software Oracle Coherence Optimized point-to-point communications on Exalogic Oracle Tuxedo Oracle Tuxedo Optimization for Inter-node Communication Socket Direct Protocol for Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software