Key business moved to private cloud! Oracle Push Middleware Machine

▲ Cloud Computing Middleware Machine: Oracle following the database machine after another masterpiece

September 20, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison in his keynote address announcing the launch of the world's first integrated middleware machine Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud System at Oracle OpenWorld 2010, Target aims at enterprise-class data center consolidation and private cloud construction. This is another masterpiece of Oracle following Oracle Exadata database machine databases.

Oracle exalogic Elastic Cloud was dubbed "the Cloud in the box" (Cloud-in-a-box). According to Larry Ellison, Exalogic is actually a complete system that integrates hardware and software resources such as servers, storage, networks, VMS, operating systems, and components in a standard 19-inch, 42U-high cabinet, and can achieve the fastest Java performance, Scalable flexibility and full fault tolerance on demand.

▲ Elastic expansion from 1/4 cabinet, half cabinet, full cabinet to 2-8 cabinet

The author then looked online at Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud's English white paper. It is understood that the Oracle exalogic elastic Cloud Compute node uses 1U dual 12 nuclear rack servers, configured with 64-bit X86 processors, and SSD disks based on InfiniBand I/O architecture.

On the software side, Exalogic integrates Oracle WebLogic server and other Java Oracle Middleware products, and users can choose Oracle Solaris 11 or Oracle Linux 5 operating systems. It can also be integrated with Oracle database 11g, Oracle Real creator clusters, and Oracle Exadata database machine.

▲ Software Support

In addition, any Oracle application software such as Oracle E-business Suite, Oracle Siebel CRM, Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise, Oracle JD Edwards and other industry-specific business software, Can run on this machine without modification.

The author notes that the use of InfiniBand interconnection is a major feature of this middleware machine. In general, when it comes to improving the computing power of data centers, the traditional approach is either to make a computer powerful, that is, to scale-up, or to connect many independent computers, that is, Scale-out, through a network such as Ethernet. Exalogic Elastic cloud is connected by InfiniBand to allow all configurations to form an independent and efficient mainframe computer.

In System Management, Oracle Enterprise Manager controls from application to disk-level management through Grid control and Opscenter. This allows users to monitor each individual hardware component in real time and automatically report the state of the system running. In addition, through integration with Oracle support, this management software can also carry out patch batch processing, from the device firmware layer to the operating system to the JVM, application server and the above Fusion middleware and Oracle application software.

▲exalogic Manageability

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud can increase Internet Web application performance by 12 times times to more than 1 million HTTP requests per second, according to Oracle internal testing; Java message application can be increased 4.5 times times, to 180 messages per second. Here is the test data for some environments:

▲ Performance comparisons for various types of Web application operations

▲OLTP database Performance Improvement 2-3 times

In addition to strong performance, integration is another feature. Since the hardware and software in the factory has been installed configuration, so basically this machine to the user site can be turned on, the user to do the setup and testing work very little. Before leaving the factory, Exalogic has been debugging for many types of workloads, such as compute-intensive, data-intensive, I/o-intensive, so that 95% of the configuration time and 60% of the cost can be reduced.

▲ the integration of hardware and software in the factory is an important feature of this kind of products

So what can such a powerful machine do?

It is understood that the goal of Oracle exalogic Elastic cloud is a large-scale, mission-critical, integrated deployment that can support an enterprise-wide multi-tenant or cloud application environment. It is said to support thousands of applications and is therefore not suitable for use as an integrated platform for enterprise-level data centers.

▲exalogic Goal: Consolidate multiple business loads

Because many enterprises may lack experience in the latest cloud computing technology, lack of confidence, there is no better way, so most are just doing some non-critical load consolidation, such as test environment. Oracle hopes that the launch of Exalogic can help these enterprises to directly cross these testing stages, to carry out key business, production environment load integration, directly into the private cloud environment.