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Software and Hardware Requirements 13
Table 2-7. Minimum Hardware Requirements for a Switched iSCSI Cluster
Hardware Component Configuration
Dell PowerEdge system [up to
eight nodes for Oracle Enterprise
Edition or up to two nodes for
Oracle Standard Edition 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 PERC
Three NIC ports (one public and two private)
Two Gigabit NIC ports (iSCSI)
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
configurations.
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 configurations.
Dell EqualLogic PS Series Storage* One Dell EqualLogic PS Series array. See the
SDL at dell.com/oracle for information on
supported configurations.
Ethernet switch (two required) Two switches for iSCSI SAN. See the SDL at
dell.com/oracle for information on supported
configurations.
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.
*Dell EqualLogic PS Series Storage is supported only with Red Hat or Oracle
Enterprise Linux AS x86_64 Version 5.x