B.12 Connecting an Exalogic Full Rack and an Exadata Full Rack

Figure B-12 illustrates how an Exalogic full Rack and an Exadata full rack are connected on the same InfiniBand fabric.

Figure B-12 Exalogic Full Rack and Exadata Full Rack

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In Figure B-12, NM2-GW represents a Sun Network QDR InfiniBand Gateway Switch (leaf switches). NM2-36P represents a Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Switch 36 (spine switch).

In this configuration, the cabling within the Exadata machine is preserved. Only the traffic on the Exalogic machine and the Exalogic-to-Exadata traffic use the spine switches. The Exadata machine's local traffic is restricted to the leaf switches of the Exadata machine. InfiniBand subnets can be created to separate traffic without any re-cabling.

This scenario is explained in detail in Connecting an Exalogic Machine Quarter Rack and an Exadata Database Machine Quarter Rack. It is included in this appendix for the sake of completeness.