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ORACLE VIRTUAL COMPUTE APPLIANCE X3-2

KEY FEATURES
Turnkey converged infrastructure

solution
Automated hardware and software

deployment with the controller software

Software-defined infrastructure in a

wire-once system enabled by Oracle SDN software

First converged infrastructure solution

from a single vendor

Support for Oracle VM Templates and

assemblies enables deployment of ready-to-run VMs containing applications in hours rather than days
Support for many operating systems and

your choice of storage protects your investment and provides easy deployment into your data centers KEY BENEFITS
Accelerate time to application-ready Lower business risks Improve business agility Reduce operational complexity Save time by simplifying purchase,

Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance is an integrated, wire once software-defined infrastructure system designed for rapid deployment of both infrastructure hardware and application software. Whether running any Linux, Oracle Solaris, or Microsoft Windows, Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance supports a large range of OS versions hosted in a converged server, network, and storage environment to enable general purpose, business- and mission-critical application deployments in medium-to-large data centers. High-performance, low-latency Oracle Fabric Interconnect with Oracle SDNtwo products in the Oracle Virtual Networking familyallow automated configuration of the server and storage networks.
Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance: Turnkey Solution, Data Center Scale
Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance is an easy-to-acquire, easy-to-deploy, turnkey solution that integrates compute, network, and storage resources in a software-defined fabric to enable agile and efficient data center deployments. With Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, you get an infrastructure that can be scaled linearly, one server at a time, from 2 to 25 compute nodes per rack. Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance also uniquely provides the capability to rapidly deploy applications, not just hardware, based on the ability to leverage Oracle VM Templates and assemblies that are user created or that are available for download from Oracle. Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance also fits into your existing data center by supporting the operating systems you run and connecting to your choice of storage including Oracles ZFS Storage Appliance or NFS or iSCSI storage from other vendors. By leveraging an integrated system, administrators are free to focus on delivering flexible services, addressing strategic needs, and transforming IT to respond to their customers evolving needs rather than investing considerable time to plan and hand-configure hardware infrastructure from scratch.

product integration, management, and support

Automatic Power Up, Installation, and Configuration

With the Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, users only need to move the rack into place, connect power, network, and storage cables, and power on the system. Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance controller orchestration software automatically powers up, installs, and configures the hardware and software environment. Within minutes, the system is ready, and users can add VMs by using standard Oracle VM Templates or by creating them from scratch. By default, all Oracle software that has been certified for use with Oracle VM is certified for Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, which includes the Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Applications, and Oracle Real Application Clusters.

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Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance offers exceptional value in the following areas:

Accelerated time from power-on to application production: Getting applications to users requires a lot more than just hardware provisioning. End-users need their applications provisioned as well. Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance accelerates deployment of the full, hardware-to-applications stack so you can get applications to users within hours of poweron, rather than days or weeks. Wire-once infrastructure for which Oracle does the wiring for you: The Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance server and storage components sit on a software-defined network fabric allowing installation and configuration of servers and storage to be accomplished through softwareno more physical recabling to reconfigure the environment. Lowered business and IT risks with easy, linear scaling to meet your performance and cost needs over time. Reduced maintenance and support complexity by deploying a preconfigured hardware and software solution. Integration into existing data centers with support for the operating systems and storage you use today.

Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance Software

The following software, which is included with Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, enables scalability, software-defined virtual networking, and GUI-based oversight: Oracle VM: Oracle VM application-driven server virtualization is designed to be highly scalable and built to enable rapid application deployment. Oracle VM supports up to 128 vCPUs and a variety of guest OSs such as Oracle Linux, Oracle Solaris, and Microsoft Windows. Oracle VM is also optimized to accelerate applications deployments. Entire Oracle application stacks such as Oracle Database and Oracle enterprise applications can be deployed in minutes to hours using Oracle VM Templates and assemblies. The ability to quickly and easily deploy applications to a highly scalable virtualized environment enables IT to meet SLAs and reduces time to market for the business. In addition, IT can rapidly deploy test, development, and staging environments. Oracle SDN software: Oracle SDN dynamically connects servers to networks and storage. It eliminates the physical storage and networking cards found in every server and replaces them with virtual network interface cards (vNICs) and virtual host bus adapters (vHBAs) that can be deployed on the fly. Applications and operating systems see these virtual resources exactly as they would see their physical counterparts. Oracle Virtual Networking simplifies complex data center deployments with a wire-once solution and simple software-defined network configurations. Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance controller software: The controller software allows users to manage and monitor the systems hardware, perform software upgrades, create and manage virtual resources (virtual servers, virtual networks, and storage), and monitor utilization of all system resources in real time. The controller software runs on two dedicated management nodes that are configured for high availability with automatic failover in the event of a failure, and it is accessible via a GUI dashboard. The embedded Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance controller software automates the installation, configuration, and management of all the infrastructure components at the push of a button. The users only need to enter basic configuration parameters and then create virtual machines (VMs) manually or by leveraging Oracle VM Templates and assemblies to get a full application up and running in as little as an hour.

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Key Components of Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance X3-2

Virtual Networking: Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance uses ultra-high performance Oracle Fabric Interconnect, a component of the Oracle Virtual Networking family, which has been specially developed using Oracles QDR InfiniBand hardware and software. Each Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance hardware configuration contains multiple redundant QDR InfiniBand switches and Oracle Fabric Interconnect systems that serve as gateways to the data centers Ethernet network. This high-speed fabric supports not only access to shared storage, but also serves as the physical platform for creation of virtual Ethernet networks that allow applications in the cloud to connect to any other application accessible over the data centers standard Ethernet network. The fabric offers extremely low latency (typically 10X faster speeds than Ethernet), 40 Gb/sec throughput, full redundancy, integrated endpoint security, and scalability (without any downtime) with little-to-no degradation in performance as additional VMs and servers are added to the appliance. Compute Nodes: Compute nodes comprise Oracle's Sun Server X3-2 systems containing Intel Xeon CPUs, high-speed dual inline memory modules (DIMM) memory, redundant, 40 Gb/sec InfiniBand host channel adapters (HCAs), and redundant disks. Each compute node runs Oracle VM Server for x86 to provide server virtualization. Compute nodes may be added or removed from Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance configurations without any downtime. The base rack contains 2 compute nodes and can support a maximum of 25 compute nodes. Integrated Storage: Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance features a fully integrated, enterprisegrade Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance for centrally storing the management environment as well as providing data storage for VMs. This storage subsystem is built using Oracles enterprise-class storage products and technology and is designed to be fully redundant for maximum fault tolerance and serviceability in production. The Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance storage subsystem is loaded with high-performance DIMM and flash memory for optimal read/write performance under the most demanding file storage workloads. The storage capacity of Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance can be expanded beyond the internal, included storage, to external data center racks containing more than one Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance or supported storage available from other storage vendors.

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Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance Hardware Specifications Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance Base Rack
Compute Nodes: 2 to 25 Controller Nodes: 2
(2) Intel 2.2 GHz Xeon (8 core) processors 256 GB 1,600 MHz RAM (2) 900 GB HDDs (RAID1) (1) Dual-port QDR InfiniBand HCA (PCIe) (1) GbE management port (BASE-T) Redundant power supplies

Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance

(4) QDR InfiniBand ports (one active and one passive per storage head) 292 GB solid state disk write cache 18 TB serial-attached SCSI (SAS) disks (2) GbE management ports

Oracle Virtual Networking

(2) Oracle Fabric Interconnect F1-15 model with 15 I/O module slots each with: (20) Non-blocking QDR InfiniBand server ports (4) Quad-port 10 Gb Ethernet modules (2) Dual-port 8 Gb Fibre Channel modules*

*Fibre Channel is included, but not supported in the initial release InfiniBand Spine Switch
(36) QDR InfiniBand ports (1) GbE management ports (BASE-T)

Management Switch
(2) 24 ports 10 GbE (BASE-T)

Power in Watts
Maximum (Base/Full): 5,357 / 14,557 Typical (Base/Full): 3,750 / 10,190

Cooling in BTU/Hr.
Maximum (Base/Full): 18,289 / 49,698 Typical (Base/Full): 12,802 / 34,788

Airflow in CFM
Maximum (Base/Full): 847 / 2,301 Typical (Base/Full): 593 / 1,611

Weight
Base Rack Weight with Shipping Pallet: 996 kg (2,197 lbs) Installed Full Rack Weight: 894 kg (1,972 lbs)

Operating Temperature
5 degrees Celsius to 32 degrees Celsius (59 degrees Fahrenheit to 89.6 degrees

Fahrenheit), 10% to 90% relative humidity, noncondensing

Altitude operating temperature: Up to 10,000 feet (3,048 m), maximum ambient

temperature is derated by 1 degree Celsius for every 300 m above 900 m, except in China where regulations may limit installations to a maximum altitude of 6,560 feet (2000 m).

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Physical Dimensions
Height: 42U, 78.66 in 1998 mm Width: 23.62 in 600 mm Depth: 47.24 in 1,200 mm

Preinstalled Software Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance controller Oracle VM Oracle VM Manager Storage Operating System Software Oracle SDN Regulations* Safety
UL 60950-1, 2nd Edition, CAN/CSA-C22.2 No. 60950-1-07, 2
nd Ed., 2011-12, EN60950-1:2006 + A11:2009 + A1:2010 + A12:2011, CB scheme with all country deviations

Emission
RFI/EMI (Class A): FCC CFR 47 Part 15 Subpart B, ICES-003 Issue 5 (2012), EN

55022:2010 ETSI EN 300 386 V1.61 (2012-09), EN61000-3-11:2000, EN61000-312:2011 Immunity

EN 55024:2010; ETSI EN 300 386 V1.6.1 (2012-09)

* In some cases, as applicable, regulatory and certification compliance were obtained at the component level. Certifications*
Safety: UL/cUL, CE, BSMI, GOST R, SMark, CSA C22.2 No. 60950107 2nd Ed, CCC EMC: CE, FCC, VCCI, ICES, KCC, GOST R, BSMI Class A, AS/NZ 3548, CCC Other: Complies with WEEE Directive (2002/96/EC) and RoHS Directive

(2011/65/EU) * In some cases, as applicable, regulatory and certification compliance were obtained at the component level.

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