Owner's Manual

12 Deployment Guide
Fibre Channel Hardware and Software Configurations
• Each node must include the minimum hardware peripheral components as described in Table 1-2.
• Each node must have the following software installed:
– Red Hat Enterprise Linux software (see Table 1-1)
– Fibre Channel HBA driver
• The Fibre Channel storage system must be configured with the following:
– A minimum of three LUNs created and assigned to the cluster storage group (see Table 1-5)
– A minimum LUN size of 5 GB
Cabling Your Storage System
You can configure your Oracle cluster storage system in a direct-attached configuration or a four-port
SAN-attached configuration, depending on your needs. See the following procedures for both
configurations.
Table 1-5. LUNs for the cluster storage group
LUN Minimum Size Number of Partitions Used For
First LUN 512 MB three of 128 MB each Voting disk, Oracle Cluster
Registry (OCR), and
storage processor (SP) file
Second LUN Larger than the size of your database one Database
Third LUN Minimum twice the size of your
second LUN
one Flash Recovery Area