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Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3000i
storage system.
See your Dell PowerVault MD3000i 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) - private
interconnect
See the Solution Deliverable List (SDL) at
dell.com/oracle for information on supported
configurations.
Table 7. Minimum Hardware Requirements for a switched iSCSI 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™ PowerVault™ MD3000i
storage system.
See your Dell PowerVault MD3000i 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.
Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series
Storage
One Dell EqualLogic PS Series array with 16 15-RPM
SAS disks
Two Gigabit Ethernet switches for iSCSI SAN
Gigabit Ethernet switch
Two - private interconnect
Two - iSCSI network
(preferred)
See the Solution Deliverable List (SDL) at
dell.com/oracle for information on supported
configurations.
Table 6. Minimum Hardware Requirements for a Direct-attached
iSCSI cluster (continued)
Hardware Component Configuration