Oracle® Exalogic Enterprise Deployment Guide
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Oracle® Fusion Middleware Exalogic Enterprise Deployment Guide Release EL X2-2 and EL X3-2 E18479-10 October 2012 Oracle Fusion Middleware Exalogic Enterprise Deployment Guide, Release EL X2-2 and EL X3-2 E18479-10 Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Primary Author: Gururaj Contributing Author: Showvik Roychowdhuri Contributors: Ballav Bihani, James Bayer, Kaizhe Huang, Michael Lehmann, Naresh Revanuru, Ola Tørudbakken, Peter Bower, Rich Mousseau, Sridhar Ranganathan, and Will Lyons. This software and related documentation are provided under a license agreement containing restrictions on use and disclosure and are protected by intellectual property laws. Except as expressly permitted in your license agreement or allowed by law, you may not use, copy, reproduce, translate, broadcast, modify, license, transmit, distribute, exhibit, perform, publish, or display any part, in any form, or by any means. 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Contents Preface ................................................................................................................................................................. ix Intended Audience...................................................................................................................................... ix Documentation Accessibility..................................................................................................................... ix Related Documents ..................................................................................................................................... ix Conventions ................................................................................................................................................. ix Before You Begin .......................................................................................................................................... xi 1 Enterprise Deployment Overview 1.1 What is Enterprise Deployment?.............................................................................................. 1-1 1.2 Prerequisities ............................................................................................................................... 1-2 1.3 Terminology................................................................................................................................. 1-2 1.4 Benefits of Oracle Recommendations ...................................................................................... 1-4 1.4.1 Built-in Security ................................................................................................................... 1-4 1.4.2 High Availability ................................................................................................................. 1-5 1.4.3 Performance.......................................................................................................................... 1-5 1.4.4 Application Isolation........................................................................................................... 1-5 1.5 Overview of Oracle Exalogic Configured Environment....................................................... 1-6 1.5.1 Network ................................................................................................................................ 1-6 1.5.2 Sun ZFS Storage 7320 appliance........................................................................................ 1-6 1.5.3 Oracle Software.................................................................................................................... 1-6 1.6 Administrator Roles and Permissions ..................................................................................... 1-7 1.7 Task Roadmap............................................................................................................................. 1-7 2 Reference Topology and Slicing Diagram 2.1 Scenario1: Exalogic Machine Connected to Oracle Database or RAC over 10 Gb Ethernet .... 2-1 2.2 Scenario2: Exalogic Machine Connected to Oracle Exadata Database Machine via InfiniBand 2-3 2.3 Processor Cores for Exalogic X86 Machines ........................................................................... 2-4 2.4 Introduction to Tiers................................................................................................................... 2-4 2.4.1 Web Tier ................................................................................................................................ 2-4 2.4.1.1 Parameters for Web Server Plug-Ins.......................................................................... 2-5 2.4.2 Application Tier ................................................................................................................... 2-5 2.4.3 Data Tier................................................................................................................................ 2-5 iii 2.5 Load Balancer Requirements..................................................................................................... 2-6 2.6 Example: Horizontal Slicing Within Exalogic Machine Quarter Rack................................ 2-7 3 Network, Storage, and Database Preconfiguration 3.1 Important Notes for Oracle Solaris Users................................................................................ 3-1 3.2 Machines ...................................................................................................................................... 3-2 3.3 Network........................................................................................................................................ 3-3 3.3.1 General Network and InfiniBand Setup........................................................................... 3-4 3.3.2 Network Diagram for Exalogic Machine ......................................................................... 3-4 3.3.3 Enterprise Deployment Network Configuration............................................................ 3-6 3.3.3.1 IP Address and Network Channel Requirements ................................................... 3-6 3.3.3.2 Determining Network Interface and Channel Requirements for a WebLogic Managed Server and the Administration Server 3-8 3.3.3.3 IP Addresses for Private InfiniBand Fabric Used by WebLogic Clusters and Coherence Clusters 3-9 3.3.3.4 IP Addresses for WebLogic Clusters When HTTP or T3 Traffic Is Via Ethernet over InfiniBand (EoIB) 3-16 3.3.3.5 Optional Network Configuration ........................................................................... 3-17 3.3.4 Virtual Server Names....................................................................................................... 3-19 3.3.4.1 exalogic.mycompany.com ....................................................................................... 3-20 3.3.4.2 admin.mycompany.com........................................................................................... 3-20 3.3.4.3 exalogicinternal.mycompany.com .......................................................................... 3-20 3.3.5 Load Balancers .................................................................................................................