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6 Deployment Guide
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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 (version 3)
operating system for Intel
®
Extended
Memory 64 Technology (EM64T)
Quarterly update 4
Oracle 10g for Intel EM64T Version 10.1.0
• Enterprise Edition, including the RAC option for clusters
• Enterprise Edition for single-node configuration
EMC
®
PowerPath
®
(Fibre Channel clusters only)
Version 4.3
Table 1-2. Minimum Hardware Requirements—Fibre Channel Cluster
Hardware Component Configuration
Dell™ PowerEdge™ 1850, 2800, or 2850
system (two to eight nodes using Oracle
Cluster File System [OCFS] or
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 CX300, CX500, or CX700
Fibre Channel storage system
See dell.com/oracle for information on supported
configurations
Gigabit Ethernet switch (two) See dell.com/oracle 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