Owner's Manual

6 Deployment Guide

Software and Hardware Requirements

Before you install the Oracle RAC software on your system:

• Download the Red Hat CD images from the Red Hat website at

rhn.redhat.com

• Locate your Oracle CD kit.

• Download the

Dell Deployment

CD images that are appropriate for the solution being installed from

the Dell|Oracle Tested and Validated Configurations website at

www.dell.com/10g

. Burn all these

downloaded CD images to CDs.

Table 1-1 lists basic software requirements for Dell supported configurations for Oracle. Table 1-2

through Table 1-3 list the hardware requirements. For more information on the minimum software

versions for drivers and applications, see "Supported Software Versions."

NOTE: Depending on the number of users, the applications you use, your batch processes, and other factors, you

may need a system that exceeds the minimum hardware requirements in order to achieve desired performance.

NOTE: The hardware configuration of all the nodes must be identical.

Table 1-1. Software Requirements

Software Component Configuration

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS EM64T (Version 4) Update 3

Oracle Database 10g Version 10.2

• Enterprise Edition, including the RAC option for clusters

• Enterprise Edition for single-node configuration

EMC

PowerPath

Version 4.5.1

Table 1-2. Minimum Hardware Requirements—Fibre Channel Cluster

Hardware Component Configuration

Dell™ PowerEdge™ system (two to eight

nodes using Automatic Storage

Management [ASM])

Intel

Xeon

processor family

1 GB of RAM

PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller (PERC) for internal

hard drives

Two 73 GB hard drives (RAID 1) connected to PERC

Three Gigabit network interface controller (NIC) ports

Two optical host bus adapter (HBA) ports

Dell|EMC Fibre Channel storage system See the Dell|Oracle Tested and Validated Configurations website at