ABSTRACT
Fast forward a few years from our first book, Developing Essbase Applications, and we are at it again with our second book. Little did I know when I started lurking on Network 54 years ago looking for Essbase secrets that I would become part of the rich community that cherishes the software. Exalytics was so new at the time I hadn’t been able to touch it. Oracle product management made an X4-4 model available for my use while writing this chapter, and I also have had an X3-4 model at Huron. During
1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 The Hardware 2
1.2.1 The Central Processing Unit 3 1.2.2 Included Storage Options 4
1.3 “Secret Sauce” 6 1.3.1 Exalytics First Software-Related Enhancements 7 1.3.2 Exalytics Restricted Software-Related Enhancements 7 1.3.3 Exalytics Specific Hardware-Related Enhancements 7
1.4 Commodity Comparisons 7 1.5 Architecture and Virtualization 9 1.6 Sizing Exalytics for Your Deployment 9 1.7 Tuning 12 1.8 Testing 16 1.9 The Case for Exalytics 20
1.9.1 Secret Sauce 20 1.9.2 Performance and Scalability 21 1.9.3 Cost Reduction and Server Consolidation 21
1.10 The Process of Attaining Exalytics Systems 21 1.11 The Future 22 1.12 Conclusion and Considerations 22 Copyright Notice Information 22 Acknowledgments 23
2013 and 2014, I worked on some of the largest North American Exalytics X3-4 and T5-8 deployments.
