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10 Software and Hardware Requirements
Minimum Hardware Requirements for a Fibre Channel Configuration
Table 2-4 through Table 2-5 indicate the minimum hardware requirements
for a Fibre Channel cluster and single-node configuration.
NOTE: The hardware configuration of all the nodes in a cluster must be identical.
Table 2-4. Minimum Hardware Requirements for a Fibre Channel Cluster
Hardware Component Configuration
Dell PowerEdge system (up to eight
nodes for Oracle Database Enterprise
Edition or up to two nodes for Oracle
Database Standard Edition using
Automatic Storage Management (ASM)
or Oracle Cluster File System for Linux
(OCFS2))
Intel
®
Xeon
®
or AMD™ Opteron™
Supported Processor families
1 GB of RAM with Oracle Cluster
File System Version 2 (OCFS2) or
Automatic Storage Management (ASM)
Internal RAID controller for internal
hard drives
Two 73-GB hard drives (RAID 1)
connected to PowerEdge RAID
Controller (PERC)
Three Gigabit Network Interface
Controller (NIC) ports
Two optical host bus adapter (HBA) ports
Dell/EMC Fibre Channel storage
system (optional)
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)
8-port Fibre Channel switch for two
to six nodes
16-port Fibre Channel switch for seven
or eight nodes