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 with Oracle Cluster File System Version 2 (OCFS2)

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