Owners Manual

Dell Integrated Systems for Oracle Business Analytics (DISOBA) – Owner’s Guide 1.0
the hardware in the rack. Table 2 shows the model of switches that are used for all the
traffic that flows in and out, and within the DISOD Solution rack.
DISOD Network Switches
LAN Switches (ToR)
2 x Dell Networking S6000 40Gb Ethernet Switches
SAN Switches
2 x Brocade 6510 16GB Fibre Channel Switches
Management Switch
1 x Dell Networking S60 1Gb Ethernet Switch
Table 2 DISOD Network Switches
The following sub-sections describe these switches in more detail.
2.4.1 Dell Networking S6000 Ethernet Switches
Redundant high bandwidth Dell Networking S6000 40GbE switches are setup as Top-of-
Rack switches. In order to provide flexibility, the S6000s are pre-configured to provide
both 10GbE and 40GbE ports to plug the DISOD in to the customer’s network
environment.
The S6000 switches are primarily used for:
 Oracle Public Network: Provide public network to connect the customer’s
Application Servers to the Oracle database’s public network.
 Oracle Private Network: Provide private network for the Oracle Real Application
Cluster (RAC) database’s private interconnect traffic.
 Remote Management: Provides connectivity to DISOD’s dedicated private
management network (S60 switch) for customers and Dell Services/Support to
remotely be able to monitor and manage the hardware components in the DISOD
solution rack.
Both the S6000 switches are configured as Layer-2 switches. The switches ship with the
following pre-configurations:
 Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP)
 Virtual Link Trunking (VLT)
 Pre-defined port functions and configuration
 VLAN and Port Channels
For more details on the S6000 switch configurations refer to S6000 Switch
Configurations.
2.4.2 Brocade 6510 Fibre Channel Switches
In order to sustain the high throughput and performance delivered by the DAAD storage
arrays, redundant high bandwidth Brocade 6510 16Gbps Fibre Channel switches are used
to connect the database nodes to the shared storage. These switches ship with pre-
configured port-based zoning in order to provide out-of-box access to the storage
volumes from the database nodes.