Owner's Manual

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Minimum Hardware Requirements for an iSCSI Configuration
Table 6 through Table 8 indicate the minimum hardware requirements for an iSCSI
cluster (direct-attached and switched) and a direct attached single node
configuration.
NOTE: The hardware configuration of all the nodes in a cluster must be identical.
Table 5. Minimum Hardware Requirements for a Direct-attached SAS Single Node
Hardware Component Configuration
PowerEdge system Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron Supported Processor
families
1 GB of RAM
Two 73-GB hard drives (RAID 1) connected to PERC
Two Gigabit Network Interface Controller (NIC)
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.
Table 6. Minimum Hardware Requirements for a Direct-attached
iSCSI 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