Owner's Manual

12 Deployment Guide
Fibre Channel Hardware and Software Configurations
• Each node must include the following minimum hardware peripheral components:
– One or two hard drives (36-GB minimum) in the internal hard-drive bay
– Three Gigabit NIC ports
– Two Fibre Channel HBAs
• Each node must have the following software installed:
– Red Hat Enterprise Linux software (see Table 1-1)
– Fibre Channel HBA driver
– OCFS1 module for the kernel and the configuration tools for OCFS
NOTE: OCFS supports two kinds of kernel, namely hugemem and Symmetric MultiProcessing (SMP).
Choose the OCFS type according to your kernel.
• The Fibre Channel storage must be configured with the following:
– A minimum of three LUNs created and assigned to the cluster
– A minimum LUN size of 5 GB
Configuring Networking and Storage for Oracle RAC 10g
This section provides information on setting up a Fibre Channel cluster running a seed database
and includes the following procedures:
• Configuring the public and private networks
• Securing your system
• Verifying the storage configuration
• Configuring shared storage for Cluster Ready Services (CRS) and the Oracle database
Oracle RAC 10g is a complex database configuration that requires an ordered list of procedures.
To configure networking and storage in a minimal amount of time, perform the following procedures
in order.