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10 Gigabit Ethernet and Unified Fabric Features
The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series is first and foremost a family of outstanding access switches for 10 Gigabit Ethernet
connectivity. Most of the features on the switches are designed for high performance with 10 Gigabit Ethernet. The
Cisco Nexus 5000 Series also supports FCoE on each 10 Gigabit Ethernet port that can be used to implement a
unified data center fabric, consolidating LAN, SAN, and server clustering traffic.
Low Latency
The cut-through switching technology used in the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series ASICs enables the product to offer a
low latency of 3.2 microseconds, which remains constant regardless of the size of the packet being switched. This
latency was measured on fully configured interfaces, with access control lists (ACLs), quality of service (QoS), and
all other data path features turned on. The low latency on the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series enables application-to-
application latency on the order of 10 microseconds (depending on the network interface card [NIC]). These
numbers, together with the congestion management features described next, make the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series a
great choice for latency-sensitive environments.
Other features include: Nonblocking Line-Rate Performance, Single-Stage Fabric, Congestion Management,
Virtual Output Queues, Lossless Ethernet (Priority Flow Control), Delayed Drop Fibre Channel over Ethernet,
Hardware-Level I/O Consolidation, and End-Port Virtualization. For more information, see:
3. Platform Components
3.1 Oracle WebLogic Server 11gR1
Oracle WebLogic Server is a scalable, enterprise-ready Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) application
server. The WebLogic Server infrastructure supports the deployment of many types of distributed applications and
is an ideal foundation for building applications based on Service Oriented Architectures (SOA).
The WebLogic Server complete implementation of The Sun Microsystems Java EE 5.0 specification provides a
standard set of APIs for creating distributed Java applications that can access a wide variety of services, such as
databases, messaging services, and connections to external enterprise systems. End-user clients access these
applications using Web browser clients or Java clients. It also supports the Spring Framework, a programming
model for Java applications which provides an alternative to aspects of the Java EE model.
In addition to the Java EE implementation, WebLogic Server enables enterprises to deploy mission-critical
applications in a robust, secure, highly available, and scalable environment. These features allow enterprises to
configure clusters of WebLogic Server instances to distribute load, and provide extra capacity in case of hardware
or other failures.
In the present setup, we clustered Oracle WebLogic 11g (10.3.5) on Cisco UCS B230M1 blade server.
3.2 Oracle Database 11gR2
Oracle Database is an ORDBMS (Object Relational DatabaseManagement System), with its own Volume Manager
and managed Database. Oracle Database 11g Release 2 provides the foundation for IT to successfully deliver
more information with higher quality of service, reduce the risk of change within IT, and make more efficient use of
their IT budgets.