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Minimum Hardware Requirements for a Direct-attached SAS Configuration
Table 4 through Table 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.
Dell|EMC Fibre Channel
storage
system (optional)
See the Solution Deliverable List (SDL) at
dell.com/oracle for information on supported
configurations
Dell|EMC Fibre Channel
switch (optional)
Eight port fibre channel switch
Gigabit Ethernet switch
(two required)
See the Solution Deliverable List (SDL) at
dell.com/oracle for information on supported
configurations.
Table 4. Minimum Hardware Requirements for a Direct-attached
SAS Cluster
Hardware Component Configuration
Dell™ PowerEdge™ system
(up to two 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™ PowerVault™ MD3000
storage system.
See your Dell PowerVault MD3000 storage system
documentation for more details.
Dell PowerVault MD1000
storage expansion enclosure
(optional).
See your Dell PowerVault MD1000 storage expansion
enclosure documentation for more details.
Gigabit Ethernet switch
(two required)
See the Solution Deliverable List (SDL) at
dell.com/oracle for information on supported
configurations.
Table 3. Minimum Hardware Requirements for a Fibre Channel Single Node (continued)
Hardware Component Configuration