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10 Software and Hardware Requirements
Minimum Hardware Requirements for a Direct-Attached SAS Configuration
Table 2-4 through Table 2-5 indicate the minimum hardware requirements
for a direct-attached SAS cluster and single-node configuration.
NOTE: The hardware configuration of all the nodes in a cluster must be identical.
Table 2-4. Minimum Hardware Requirements for a Direct-Attached SAS Cluster
Hardware Component Configuration
Dell PowerEdge system [up to
two nodes using ASM or Oracle
Cluster File System for Linux
(OCFS2)]
Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron supported
processor families
1 GB of RAM with OCFS2 or ASM
Internal RAID controller for internal hard drives
Two 73-GB hard drives (RAID 1) connected to
PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC)
Three Gigabit NIC ports (one public and two
private)
Two SAS host bus adapter (HBA) ports
Dell PowerVault storage system See your Dell PowerVault storage system
documentation for more details. See the SDL at
dell.com/oracle for information on supported Dell
PowerVault Storage Systems.
Dell PowerVault storage
expansion enclosure (optional)
See your Dell PowerVault storage expansion
enclosure documentation for more details. See the
SDL at dell.com/oracle for information on
supported Dell PowerVault Storage Systems.
Ethernet switch (three required) One switch for public and two switches for private
interconnect. See the SDL at dell.com/oracle for
information on supported configurations.