Owner's Manual

Deployment Guide 11
System Hardware and Software Configurations
• Each node must include the following minimum hardware peripheral components:
– Two hard drives (73 GB minimum) in the internal hard-drive bay
– Three Gigabit NIC ports
– Two HBAs (one dual-port HBA in case of PowerEdge 1850 and 1950 systems)
• Each node must have the following software installed:
– Windows Server 2003, Standard/Enterprise x64 R2 Edition (see Table 1-1)
– HBA driver
• The Fibre Channel storage must be configured with a minimum of three LUNs created and assigned to
the cluster.
Table 1-5. LUN configuration and sizes
LUN Minimum Size Number of Partitions Used for
1 1 GB 2 (120 MB and 50 MB) Voting disk,
oracle clusterware
registry (
OCR)
2 Larger than your database 1 Database
3 At least twice the size of
your second LUN
1 Flash recovery area