Owner's Manual

6 Deployment Guide
• Download the Dell Deployment CD images from the Dell | Oracle Tested and Validated
Configurations website at
www.dell.com/10g , and create working Dell Deployment CDs from the CD
images.
Table 1-1 lists basic software requirements for Dell’s Supported Configurations for Oracle. Table 1-2
through Table 1-3 list the hardware requirements. For detailed information on the minimum software
versions for drivers and applications, see "Supported Software Versions" on page 41.
NOTE: Depending on the number of users, the application 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 cluster nodes must be identical.
Table 1-1. Software Requirements
Software Component Configuration
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS EM64T
(version 4)
Quarterly update 2
Oracle Database 10g Version 10.2
• Enterprise Edition, including the RAC option for clusters
• Enterprise Edition for single-node configuration
EMC
®
PowerPath
®
(Fibre Channel
clusters only)
Version 4.5
Table 1-2. Minimum Hardware Requirements—Fibre Channel Cluster
Hardware Component Configuration
Dell™ PowerEdge™ system (two to eight
nodes using Automatic Storage
Management [ASM])
3-GHz Intel Xeon
®
processor
1 GB of RAM
PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller (PERC)
controller for internal hard drives
Two 36-GB hard drives (RAID 1) connected to a PERC
Three Gigabit NIC ports
Two optical host bus adapter (HBA) ports
Dell | EMC Fibre Channel storage
system
See dell.com/10g for information on supported
configurations
Gigabit Ethernet switch (two) See dell.com/10g for information on supported
configurations
Dell | EMC Fibre Channel switch (two) Eight ports for two to six nodes
Sixteen ports for seven or eight nodes