Owner's Manual

Deployment Guide 5

This document provides information for installing, configuring, reinstalling, and using your

Oracle 10

software following Dell’s Supported Configurations for Oracle. The following topics are

covered:

• Software and hardware requirements

• Installing and configuring Red Hat

Enterprise Linux

• Verifying cluster hardware and software configurations

• Configuring networking and storage for Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) 10

• Installing Oracle RAC 10

• Configuring and deploying Oracle Database 10

(single node)

• Adding and removing nodes

• Reinstalling the software

• Additional information

• Troubleshooting

• Getting help

• Obtaining and using open source files

For more information on Dell’s Supported Configurations for Oracle, see the Dell and Oracle

website at

dell.com/oracle

Software and Hardware Requirements

Before you install the Oracle software on your system:

• Locate the Red Hat CDs included with your CD kit.

• Locate your Oracle CD kit.

• Download the

Dell Deployment

CD images from the Dell and Oracle website at

dell.com/oracle

, 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 42.