Oracle Exalogic

[4] The hardware component of the X2-2 appliance consisted of: a group of 1-unit Intel Xeon servers, each equipped with two six-core 2.93 GHz processors and two solid-state drives for operating system and swap space; a common storage area network; and a set of InfiniBand and Ethernet switches.

Two 400 GB SSDs (RAID1) and redundant power supplies Two 64-bit operating systems run on the server nodes of the appliance: Oracle Linux version 5.5 or Solaris 11.

Exalogic is deployed by the University of Melbourne, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States, Amway, the Hyundai Motor Group, Bank of Chile, Haier, and Deutsche Post DHL, Public Authority of Minors Affairs (PAMA) in Kuwait .

[11][12] Mark Benioff, founder of Salesforce.com, presumes that any appliance principally lacks scalability for the end-user compared with the infrastructure, supplied as service, and notes that the Exalogic approach is actually a rollback to the obsolete mainframe computer concept.

[14] However, any computing environment is a collection of servers, and since many Exalogic machines can be combined, it is not limited to the single box capacity, which may be considered as merely a building block.