Owner's Manual

12 Deployment Guide
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 for use with PowerEdge 1850/1950 system)
• Each node must have the following software installed:
– Windows Server 2003, Standard 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 (see Table 1-6)
Cabling Your Storage System
You can configure your Oracle cluster storage system in a direct-attached configuration or a four-port
SAN-attached configuration, depending on your needs. See the following procedures for both configurations.
Figure 1-3. Cabling in a Direct-Attached Fibre Channel Cluster
Table 1-6. LUNs for the Cluster Storage Group
LUN Minimum Size Number of Partitions Used For
First LUN 1 GB two (120 MB and 50 MB) Voting disk and OCR
Second LUN Larger than the size of your database one Database
Third LUN Minimum twice the size of your second LUN one Flash recovery area
HBA ports (2)
cluster node 1
cluster node 2
HBA ports (2)
0
1 1
0
CX3-20 storage system
SP-B
SP-A
FE0
FE1
FE0
FE1