Owner's Manual

6 Deployment Guide
NOTE: Depending on the number of users, the application you use, your batch processes, and other factors, you
may need a system that exceeds the minimum hardware requirements in order to achieve your desired performance.
NOTE: The hardware configuration of all the nodes must be identical.
Table 1-1. Software Requirements
Software Component Configuration
Windows Server 2003 Standard x64 R2 Edition
Oracle Database 10g R2 Version 10.2.0.1
Standard Edition, including the RAC option for clusters
Oracle Patchset Version 10.2.0.2
EMC
®
PowerPath
®
(Fibre Channel clusters only) Version 4.5
Table 1-2. Minimum Hardware Requirements for the Fibre Channel Cluster Configuration
Hardware Component Configuration
Any of the following Dell PowerEdge™ systems:
PowerEdge 1850 system (up to two nodes)
PowerEdge 1950 system (up to two nodes)
PowerEdge 2850 system (up to two nodes)
PowerEdge 2900 system (up to two nodes)
PowerEdge 2950 system (up to two nodes)
Intel
®
Xeon
®
processor family.
1 GB of RAM.
Dell PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller (PERC) card
for internal hard drives.
Two 73 GB hard drives connected to a PERC card.
NOTE: Dell recommends two 73 GB hard drives (RAID 1)
connected to a PERC 4e/Di, PERC 4e/Si, or a PERC 5/i card
based on your system type. See your PowerEdge system
documentation for more details.
Three Gigabit network interface controllers (NICs).
Two QLogic or Emulex optical host bus adapters (HBAs)
(one QLE2462 dual port HBA for use with
PowerEdge 1850/1950).
Dell|EMC CX300/CX500/CX3-20 Fibre Channel
storage system
See the Dell|Oracle Tested and Validated Configurations
website at www.dell.com/10g for information on supported
configurations.
Gigabit Ethernet switch (two) See the Dell|Oracle Tested and Validated Configurations
website at www.dell.com/10g for information on supported
configurations.