Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud is the integrated equipment room and the program system developed, tested and configured by Oracle for accomplishment of the applications written on Java and other languages with the highest performance. This machine provides the full-function infrastructure of cloud computing (cloud computing) consolidating the broadest spectrum of Java applications and applications of other types and meeting the most strict requirements to the service level.

The machine of a middleware develops success of the database machine Oracle Exadata Database Machine. Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud combines the latest 64-bit processor technology based on architecture of x86, an input-output subsystem based on InfiniBand technology and a storage device subsystem based on solid-state disks (SSD) with the Oracle WebLogic Server application server leading in the market, other middleware of Oracle of a corporate class based on Java and also the Oracle Solaris operating system or Oracle Linux – at choice.

The software was configured for use in the machine Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud of modules of input-output to provide performance measures by 10 times the best, than at the application server of a standard configuration.

The machine Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud developed for large-scale responsible projects provides the platform for the critical distributed applications. Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud can support thousands of applications with different requirements to security, reliability and performance that does this machine by the ideal platform for consolidation of resources of an enterprise-wide data processing center.

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud increases performance of all products of the Oracle Fusion Middleware family and also improves performance of the applications run on the Oracle WebLogic Server application server both in operating environment of Oracle Linux, and in Oracle Solaris 11. The machine is also optimized for integration into Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Real Application Clusters and Oracle Exadata Database Machine.

Any business applications of Oracle, including Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Siebel CRM, Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise, Oracle JD Edwards and industry solutions of Oracle, will steadily work on the machine Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, without requiring any modifications.

The integrated system

The machine Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud includes the latest high-performance hardware based on architecture of x86, the Oracle WebLogic Server application server leading in the industry and the software of Exalogic. All this is developed by Oracle for achievement of the maximum opportunities with the minimum preparation for work. Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud is delivered already collected, tested and configured for the purpose of sharp reduction of a time frame from delivery of the machine before complete working deployment with support of accomplishment of applications.

"Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud represents the complete system including servers, network, a storage device subsystem, the virtual machine, the operating system and a middleware which are designed for joint work — the head of Oracle corporation Larry Ellison told. — The machine Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud shows excellent results, including the highest performance of Java applications, the flexible opportunities of a storage device subsystem given on demand and complete fault tolerance".

Performance of Java applications

During internal tests the machine Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud in a configuration of one hardware rack showed the following results:

12-fold performance improvement for Internet-applications - up to 1 million HTTP requests per second. 4.5-fold performance improvement for message exchange Java applications - up to 1.8 million messages per second.

The input-output subsystem based on InfiniBand using the highest performance level of transactions of input-output of original InfiniBand technology uses new architecture for parallel input-output, efficiency of the multi-core processor and optimization of a stack of input-output of Java.

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud is the platform of consolidation of Java applications capable to service workloads of all enterprise, from small applications of level of division to crucial corporate ERP infrastructures and applications of the mainframe postponed for the machine.

The GridLink for Exadata function allows to perform superreliable and high-performance integration into the database, providing instant recovery of the JDBC interface after failures and transaction compatibility of transactions between the Oracle WebLogic Server application server executed by the machine Exalogic, and a cluster of Oracle Real Application Clusters, executed by the machine Oracle Exadata Database Machine.

Crucial applications

The technology of a subsystem of input-output Exalogic provides the high level of fault tolerance with almost instant switching to reserve modules and absolutely exact localization of faults of applications that allows the enterprises to consolidate numerous crucial applications on one system with extremely low risk.

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud T3-1B

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud T3-1B is the offer for corporate clients providing the optimized performance, scalability and availability of the "cloud" Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud system, the integrated machine of binding software (middleware machine) thanks to the SPARC Solaris platform.

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud represents the integrated equipment room and the program system tested and configured by Oracle for accomplishment of the applications written on Java and other languages with a high performance. The announced Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud T3-1B model allows to integrate possibilities of the SPARC servers running Oracle Solaris 11 Express OS, input-output subsystems based on InfiniBand technology, the Oracle WebLogic Server application server and other binding software of Oracle of a corporate class based on Java, says Oracle.

According to the developer, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud can provide support thousands of applications imposing different requirements to security, reliability and performance therefore Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud is an effective remedy for consolidation of resources of enterprise-wide DPCs. Along with support of multi-user access to all-corporate resources and capability to meet the high requirements to the level of service, it does Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud by the optimal platform for cloud computing, claim in Oracle.

The Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud T3-1B model offered Oracle for work in the environment of Oracle Solaris optimized for accomplishment of multithreaded applications allows clients to carry out monitoring and diagnostics of the hardware for the purpose of prevention of possible failures in its work due to integration into the SPARC T-Series servers running Oracle Solaris of technology of preventive self-diagnostics Oracle Solaris Predictive Self Healing. Besides, clients will be able to reduce a downtime of the equipment thanks to a subsystem of Oracle Solaris SMF (Service Management Framework) which will help to restart automatically a system in case of unforeseen failures.

Within Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud clients will also be able to consolidate existing applications of Oracle Solaris using the integrated Oracle Solaris 10 Zones function allowing to perform transfer of all applications in virtual environment of Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud without changes.

According to Oracle, Exalogic Elastic Cloud increases performance of all products of the Oracle Fusion Middleware family, at the same time a system is optimized for integration into Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Real Application Clusters and Oracle Exadata Database Machine.

Testing in Russia (Moscow)

In October, 2011 the FORS company and representative office of Oracle CIS announced that Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud is set and became available to testing in ExaStack Studio - a demo center of FORS company in Moscow. The complete, integrated high-performance hardware and software system Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud is optimized and ready to the work together with Oracle Exadata which is earlier unrolled in a demo center. Now the companies interested in significant performance improvement of the computing systems can test the databases and applications on this equipment.

The hardware and software system of new generation Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud represents set optimum balanced for joint work a component: the preconfigured and high-performance computing modules, the high-speed network bus Infiniband and a subsystem of disk data storage. The Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud complex is a high-performance hardware platform for all product family of Oracle Fusion Middleware, all business applications and industry solutions of Oracle, corporate private clouds and also applications of independent developers.

Advantages of the machine of a middleware of Oracle Exalogic are most brightly shown at solving of tasks of the increased complexity: creation of DPCs of new generation and services on the basis of SaaS, deployment of front office and portal solutions with high frequency the addresses, consolidation of applications upon transition to SOA/BPM the platform and also ensuring radical fall forward of transaction processing. Besides, Oracle Exalogic is the optimal platform for powerful billing solutions, ERP-, CRM systems and other business applications of Oracle.

The director of business development of FORS company Nikolay Zezyulinsky notes: "Inclusion in the product Exalogic Elastic Cloud portfolio is logical continuation of all that was made by us earlier. Exadata & Exalogic working together is the this ExaStack which marked break in the Russian market. It means new opportunities for business, release from routine procedures for the choice for customers a component of the created systems, to determination of optimum balanced configurations, setup and expensive integration hardware and program a component. We are sure that technology advantages of the solution in combination with experiment and examination of FORS on products of Oracle will open the new horizons for business growth – as ours, and our partners and clients".

In ExaStack Studio of FORS company the finished solution for cardinal performance improvement of work both databases, and applications – Exastack which integrates working together with Oracle Exadata and Oracle Exalogic is proposed. The maximum effect is reached as a result of synergy: processing speed of databases increases in 10 and more times, time of request processing of the application server in addition is many times reduced. The joint speed of request processing of users reached as a result allows to bring business to qualitatively other level.

Opening of a demo center of FORS of ExaStack Studio with acting with Oracle Exadata Database Machine allowed to save up examination on the optimized hardware and software system. More than ten different applied systems are tested, IT specialists of the companies-razarabotchikov and system integrators were trained to administration of Oracle Exadata. Now this positive experience will be used and expanded when rendering professional support to the partners and customers interested in acquisition and the Oracle Exalogic installation.

"The optimized hardware and software system Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud is natural result of strategy of corporation on development of the platform. He integrates a full range of software and hardware solutions, uses open standards and mutual coordination between all components that as a result gives ease of use and maximum efficiency – Dmitry Shepelyavy, the Director of the department of work with the commercial organizations, Oracle CIS says. - We comprehensively support the initiative of FORS company. Advantages of Exadata and Exalogic are not just the amount of advantages due to the choice certain hardware and the software. The quintessence of these complexes consists that they closely are among themselves integrated. And ExaStack Studio provides to partners and clients an opportunity in it to be convinced and estimate in practice in Russia".

Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software of version 2.0

The Oracle corporation announced the new version of the solution Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software 2.0 in July, 2012. The hardware and software system is optimized for accomplishment of business applications, offers innovations for simplification and cost reduction, eliminates business risks and allows to seize the new market opportunities.

In general the optimized hardware and software system Oracle Exalogic provides: elimination of risks of deployment of applications and binding software thanks to the simplified deployment ("one mouse click") of difficult, multilevel business applications; a gain (up to 10-fold) productivities of Oracle Applications, Java applications and other business applications; acceleration (up to 6-fold) deployments of applications that allows clients to react to the changing requirements of the market quicker.

According to developers, the optimized Oracle Exalogic HSS constructed based on open industry standards supports virtualization of crucial business applications from close to initial (in comparison with physical servers) performance by means of integration of Oracle VM. The solution is used by the high-speed communication interface of input-output based on Oracle Exabus technology which connects all components of the Oracle Exalogic complex and is the cornerstone of the high performance and scalability of Oracle Exalogic.

At the same time, the hardware and software system provides high adaptation capability ("elasticity") at the level of applications thanks to the integrated management of a complete technology stack — "from applications to disk arrays" (application-to-disk) — using Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c. Oracle Exalogic supports consolidation of numerous applications on one system as the private environment of cloud computing, at the same time eliminating risks of security thanks to complete isolation of applications. Besides, the solution includes Oracle Traffic Director which is the built-in controller of delivery of the Application Delivery Controller applications, for safe management and routing of large volumes of traffic of applications with a high performance, reported in Oracle.

"The optimized hardware and software system Oracle Exalogic constructed on open industry standards can provide consolidation of hundreds of Java applications and applications of other platforms and, at the same time, offers lower total cost of ownership due to support of bigger number of transactions on smaller hardware and program resources with the simplified management" — Hasan Rizvi, the senior vice president for the Oracle Fusion Middleware and Java Products directions said.

In the whole Oracle Exalogic provides to clients and partners the optimized hardware and software system which increases performance and can protect and increase profitability of the existing and future investments into software products of Oracle, emphasized in corporation.

"Oracle Exalogic is the logical choice for accomplishment of business applications of Oracle Applications, including Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Siebel CRM, Oracle PeopleSoft, Oracle JD Edwards and also industry solutions of Oracle, says Oracle. — These applications were optimized, tested, tested and certified for achievement of exclusive performance on the hardware and software systems Oracle Exalogic".

Oracle Exalogic is optimized for accomplishment of the products of the Oracle Fusion Middleware family based on standards, including the Oracle WebLogic Server application server and also Oracle Coherence, Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Tuxedo technologies. The product Oracle Tuxedo ART 12c is optimized for work on Oracle Exalogic to help clients to reduce IT expenses at the expense of a fast rekhosting of IBM CICS, IMS and applications with batch processing of data. Besides, Oracle Exalogic is developed to use all opportunities of the database machine Oracle Exadata Database Machine and integrated with Oracle Database and cluster Oracle Real Application Clusters technologies.

Oracle Exalogic X3-2

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud integrates in the structure the equipment rooms and software tools developed together to provide the exclusive performance, reliability and scalability for applications on Java, Oracle Fusion Middleware, business applications of Oracle Applications, the Tuxedo platform and other applications, at the same time offering decrease in total cost of ownership, risks and increase in efficiency of users and also uniform technical support from one supplier.

The new version of Oracle Exalogic X3-2 equipped with the most modern and fast processors, a flash memory and network infrastructure works running the software of Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software 2.0 that allows to reach exclusively high performance for strategically important and large-scale projects of deployment of applications including in private cloud environments on the basis of the IaaS model ("infrastructure as service").

"Oracle Exalogic offers the latest technical developments in the form of the optimized hardware and software system with flexible scaling options, the high level of readiness and lower total cost of ownership. The complex is specially developed to help clients with management of the most difficult and resource-intensive applied workloads, – the executive vice president of Oracle Hasan Rizvi emphasized. – The new version of Oracle Exalogic provides exclusively high performance of crucial applications and allows to simplify considerably their infrastructures and also provides possibilities of the accelerated output to the market of the new products and further cost reduction and risks connected with IT".

Oracle Exalogic X3-2 up to 60 times increases density of deployment of applications thanks to a combination of virtualization of resources of input-output on Single Root I/O Virtualization technology (SR-IOV) and servers and also to increase in volume of physical RAM (with 2.9 TB in X2-2 configuration up to 7.7 TB in the new X3-2 Full Rack configuration).

Oracle Exalogic X3-2, fully using advantages of the latest Intel® Core™ processors (Sandy Bridge) of Xeon, provides performance improvement of applications to 3.5 times in comparison with Oracle Exalogic X2-2 and offers 33% more main cores in the Oracle Exalogic Full Rack configuration (480 cores instead of 360).

Oracle Exalogic X3-2 can accelerate deployment of applications almost for 95%, providing a full support of virtualization of servers, storage systems and network resources in combination with the IaaS model that allows to accelerate deployment of applications with the help "ready to deployment" (ready-to-deploy) of templates.

The full support of new model of licensing of Trusted Partitions implemented in Oracle Exalogic provides flexible licensing of software products of Oracle. The prices of new configurations remained the same that allows clients to receive higher performance of the equipment at the same price.

Oracle Exalogic X3-2 includes the software of Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software 2.0 and is delivered with the product Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c for management of a full technology range of Oracle and and complete lifecycle of a cloud of the enterprise – "from applications to a disk".

The new Oracle Exalogic X3-2 systems are completely compatible to the Oracle Exalogic X2-2 systems. The existing Oracle Exalogic X2-2 systems can be also upgraded using the computing Oracle Exalogic X3-2 nodes.

Clients from 43 countries and 22 industries already razverernut the Oracle Exalogic complexes.

The optimized hardware and software system Oracle Exalogic gives to clients and partners an opportunity to reduce costs, to simplify use, to eliminate business risks, to protect and as much as possible to accelerate an investment payback in the existing and future software products of Oracle.

Oracle Exalogic is the logical choice for accomplishment of business applications of Oracle, including Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Siebel CRM, Oracle PeopleSoft, Oracle JD Edwards, Oracle ATG Web Commerce, and industry solutions of Oracle. These applications were optimized, checked, tested and certified for Oracle Exalogic for the purpose of achievement of exclusive performance.

Oracle Exalogic develops functionality of the products of the Oracle Fusion Middleware family based on standards, including the Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle Coherence, Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Tuxedo technologies leading in the market.

Oracle VM Templates

The Oracle corporation provided in January, 2013 the new Oracle VM Templates templates for the optimized hardware and software system Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud. The new templates intended for fast installation of a number of business applications of Oracle incorporated the best practices of deployment based on long-term experiment of more than 70 thousand clients on Oracle applications.

The Oracle Exalogic Oracle VM Templates templates are released for use with Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.3, Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.1, Oracle PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8.52 and Oracle Siebel CRM of versions 8.1.1.8 and 8.2.2. These are the first Oracle VM Templates templates which are specially created for Oracle Exalogic, they supplement the existing set of the Oracle VM Templates templates which support tens of products of Oracle.

Each business application of Oracle was tested, checked, tested and optimized on the hardware and software system Oracle Exalogic by groups of development Oracle Applications for achievement of exclusive performance. Oracle Exalogic provides reliably protected, failsafe, based on open standards platform for consolidation of business applications of Oracle, Java and also other suppliers.

"The Oracle Exalogic complex was developed "from scratch" for business applications and binding software to simplify deployment to lower cumulative ownership cost, – Hasan Rizvi, the executive vice president of Oracle emphasized. – The Oracle Exalogic Oracle VM Templates templates for Oracle Applications use advantages of the integrated hardware-software stack of Oracle to the managed predictable deployment of the multilevel corporate applications crucial for business of our clients as directly at the enterprise, and in the environment of cloud computing".

The Oracle Exalogic Oracle VM Templates templates for business applications of Oracle can help the companies:

•   Reduce deployment time from weeks to minutes
•   Accelerate error correction using the preset templates for patch sets for business applications of Oracle
•   Consolidate business applications on Oracle Exalogic for more effective and rational use of hardware
• Clients can also use the Oracle Exalogic Oracle VM Templates templates for Oracle

Applications for cost reduction and simplification of start of business applications of Oracle for the account:

•   deployments component of business applications of Oracle "one mouse click";
•   consolidations of crucial business applications in completely virtualized environment;
•   reductions of resources of applications in compliance with business needs thanks to opportunities of self-service of a private cloud environment that allows to unroll applications up to 10 times faster [1] thanks to Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c;
•   creations of basic or main images (golden images) for fast deployment and also for archiving, copying and redistribution.

The Oracle VM Templates templates represent images of the virtual machine which are based on experience and the best practices of Oracle and contain previously grouped, set and configured business applications which are not requiring installation. Oracle VM Templates can be loaded from the website Oracle E-Delivery and to unroll on Oracle Exalogic.

The optimized hardware and software systems Oracle Exalogic X3-2 are the newest generation of Oracle Exalogic. They provide by 3.5 times higher performance of applications and also acceleration of number of requests and messages per second for web applications – by 4.4 times and 4.6 times respectively – in comparison with the previous generation. At the same time the cost of complexes remained the same.

2013: Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud X4-2

On December 23, 2013 the Oracle corporation announced receipt in sale of the optimized hardware and software system Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud X4-2.

Description

Oracle Exalogic X4-2 has higher capacity in comparison with the previous version and, according to developers, in combination with Oracle Exabus technology, provides almost invariable response time for the virtualized applications, increasing advantages of consolidation. Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud X4-2 hardware offer the increased amount of RAM, the increased capacity disk and a flash memory.

Innovations

In the new version of software of Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software the possibility of consolidation of different architecture of deployment of applications is implemented (the systems of virtualization with hypervisors, i.e. without OS — bare metal; the virtualized environments; IaaS-solutions) in one hardware rack, a possibility of use of templates and packets of virtualization using Oracle VM Templates and Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder.

"Oracle Exalogic provides high performance in combination with uniform technical support for Java and business applications of Oracle Applications — Thomas Kurian, the executive vice president of Oracle emphasized. — The new version of Oracle Exalogic provides to IT departments reasonable approach to virtualization of their workloads which will allow to simplify considerably their infrastructure and to reduce costs".

According to Oracle, because of the increased computing density and an expanded range of options of deployment, costs for deployment and consolidation of the corporate Exalogic Elastic Cloud X4-2 applications below, in comparison with the previous version.

The corporation claims - Exalogic Elastic Cloud X4-2 provides:

• 50% more than computing power counting on a server node when using the Oracle Sun Server X4 servers with 12-core Xeon Processor E5-2697 v2 processors;

• deployment 720 main cores, 7.7 TB RAM and 24 TB flash memory of storage in one hardware rack for high computing density;

• for 33% of high capacity of resources of storage thanks to the storage system of Oracle ZS3 Series Storage designed together with the optimized hardware and software systems of Oracle for achievement of high capacity of input-output.

According to the statement of corporation, customers can unroll the virtualized crucial business applications and execute them without performance penalty on the Oracle Exalogic complexes with Oracle VM Server and Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder.

Advantages

By Oracle Exalogic X4-2 it is certified for In-Memory Applications Oracle applications — the optimized solutions of Oracle for calculations in RAM that allows to perform the specialized analysis of transaction data in real time. The corporation considers the hardware and software system Oracle Exalogic X4-2 the optimal platform for accomplishment of Oracle applications of In-Memory Applications as the increased amount of RAM does possible their work 10-20 times faster.

Use of Oracle Exalogic by 26 times increases web application server performance for Oracle WebLogic Server in comparison with open source-реализацией Java EE executed on ^[1].

Oracle Exalogic provides:

• fivefold increase in capacity of Oracle Coherence thanks to decrease in waiting time by 7 times in comparison with the Ethernet-platform of 10 Gbps;
• increase by 17 times of number of the processed transactions of Oracle BPEL per second in comparison with the COTS platform;
• increase by 8 times of capacity of Oracle Tuxedo thanks to decrease by 4 times of waiting time in comparison with the comparable hardware configuration which does not have optimizatsy Oracle Exalogic.

In plans of Oracle - to integrate Oracle Exalogic with Nimbula Director. As envisioned by corporation, OpenStack-compatible API interfaces will help customers to manage flexibly computing powers and resources of data storage and also to freely move workloads with Oracle Exalogic to "cloud" of Oracle Public Cloud and back.

The optimized hardware and software system Oracle Exalogic X4-2 is delivered with a possibility of the choice of the operating system — Oracle Linux or Oracle Solaris.

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