Quick Start Manual

12 Software and Hardware Requirements
Table 2-6. 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 or AMD Opteron Supported
Processor families
1 GB of RAM with OCFS2 or 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 SAS 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 2-7. Minimum Hardware Requirements for a Direct-attached SAS Single Node
Hardware Component Configuration
Dell PowerEdge system Intel Xeon or 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.