The Key Values of Oracle Exalogic for Java Applications
Oracle Exalogic is the best solution for Java applications in terms of performance and high availability. My customer was able to …
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Oracle's Exalogic is a converged infrastructure appliance.
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What is Oracle Exalogic?
Oracle Exadata is a full-stack solution designed to improve the performance,
scale, security, and availability of an enterprise’s Oracle Databases.
It incorporates more than 60 unique features, such as Smart Scan SQL
offload, that are coengineered with Oracle Database to accelerate OLTP,
analytics and machine-learning applications. The vendor states Exadata reduces
capital costs and management expenses by enabling IT departments to
consolidate hundreds of databases onto a single system. Companies can
deploy Exadata on-premises, in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, or as a
Cloud@Customer solution, and use Autonomous Database to simplify and
accelerate digital transformations.
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Oracle Exalogic is the best solution for Java applications in terms of performance and high availability. My customer was able to consolidate several installations of WebLogic servers in one single Exalogic virtual configuration, without re-writing the applications. So, my customer saved the maintenance costs of their systems and also improved the performance of mission critical applications without any code change.
- Private Cloud: in the virtual configuration, you can create several accounts and assign different resources (vCPU, RAM, etc.) to several departments in your organization.
- SDP & Infiband: Oracle Exalogic can be connected to Oracle Exadata using Infiniband Fabric, to take advantage of high bandwidth and low latency network to connect Weblogic to Oracle Database.
- Standardization: Oracle WebLogic Server running on Oracle Exalogic is the same software running on a normal Linux machine, so you can easily move Java applications without changing it, and immediately benefit from the Exalogic Optimizations.
- My customers don't appreciate the Enterprise Manager Ops Center to monitor/maintain Exalogic. Maybe, the user interface could be simplified.
- Increase stability and performance of Weblogic Server applications.
- Platinum Support: the patching process is simplified because storage/firmware/OS/binaries are patched in the same time by the same vendor.
- Cost savings for hardware maintenance.
December 10, 2015
Oracle Exalogic, why or why not - a technicians tale
Over the past two years Data Intensity has worked with many customers to deploy different Oracle Engineered Systems, including ODA, Exalogic, Exalytics and Exadata. Over the last 12 months I have actively worked to deploy 5 Oracle Exalogic, 5 Exadata and 3 ZFS devices as the base platform for a large ERP deployment. Oracle applications which are running in this platform include Oracle EBS, PLM, PDH, SOA, OBI, and GRC.
- The primary benefit we have noticed from the Exalogic platform is performance. This systems was definitely purpose built for the needs of a highly available and heavily utilized application environment. The incredible throughput over NFS and heavy read cache ZFS appliance lend well to high read quick transaction type workloads. When implemented in conjunction with an Exadata environment the throughput between your application and database is simply amazing.
- Additionally we have found that the time to deploy is lower than that of a more cumbersome Oracle VM infrastructure. I don't believe that this specific value proposition is all that great when comparing the deployment time of a VMware based solution, but will add value when compared to an in-house solution based on the same Oracle VM virtualization.
- Finally we have found that the standardize configurations, while not all that unique to engineered systems, have added value when deploying Oracle application which tend to have strict configuration requirements.
- My major complaint with the Exalogic platform is in the resilience of the ZFS appliance within the platform. This device should fail-over to the redundant controller when issue occur, however we have had three events in which this did not happen and a complete outage followed.
- Additionally Oracle sales has a tendency to exaggerate the simplicity of this platform. The management overhead is great, and while my company provides managed service, for our specific customer they were surprised to find out how much work goes into run-and-maintain support.
- Unfortunately we are still early on in the deployment phase so true ROI isn't calculable at this point. We do however believe we have built a highly scale-able solution that will allow the companies core ERP systems to grow as they do.
It's hard to compare Oracle Exalogic Engineered Systems with anything else on the market. It's so purpose built for application performance and intended to be used in conjunction with other Oracle Engineered Systems. As I alluded to earlier in this review the cost may not be worth the investment if the performance isn't needed. Oracle offers other solutions like the Oracle PCA which will meet the need for licensing compliance at a much lower cost of ownership and may fit better into your current infrastructure.