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Table 2. Minimum Hardware Requirements for a Fibre Channel Cluster
Hardware Component Configuration
Dell™ PowerEdge™ system
(up to eight nodes using
Automatic Storage
Management (ASM) or Oracle
Cluster File System for Linux
(OCFS2))
Intel
®
Xeon
®
and AMD™ Opteron™ Supported
Processor families
1 GB of RAM with Oracle Cluster File System
Version 2 (OCFS2) or Automated Storage
Management (ASM)
Internal RAID controller for internal hard drives
Two 73-GB hard drives (RAID 1) connected to
PERC
Three Gigabit Network Interface Controller (NIC)
ports
Two optical host bus adapter (HBA) ports
Dell|EMC Fibre Channel
storage system
See the Solution Deliverable List (SDL) at
dell.com/oracle for information on supported
configurations
Gigabit Ethernet switch (two
required)
See the Solution Deliverable List (SDL) at
dell.com/oracle for information on supported
configurations
Dell|EMC Fibre Channel
switch (two required)
Eight port fibre channel switch for two to six nodes
16 port fibre channel switch for seven or eight nodes
Table 3. Minimum Hardware Requirements for a Fibre Channel Single Node
Hardware Component Configuration
PowerEdge system (single node
using Automatic Storage
Management (ASM) or Oracle
Cluster File System for Linux
(OCFS2))
Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron Supported Processor
families
1 GB of RAM
Two 73-GB hard drives (RAID 1) connected to
PERC controller or SAS controller
Two Gigabit Network Interface Controller (NIC)
ports