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Software and Hardware Requirements 11
Minimum Hardware Requirements for a Direct-attached SAS Configuration
Table 2-6 through Table 2-7 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.
Table 2-5. Minimum Hardware Requirements for a Fibre Channel Single Node
Hardware Component Configuration
PowerEdge system (single node
using Automatic Storage
Management or Oracle Cluster
File System for Linux(OCFS2))
Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron Supported
Processor families
1 GB of RAM
Two 73-GB hard drives (RAID 1) connected
to PERC controller or SAS controller
Two Gigabit Network Interface Controller
(NIC) ports
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)
8-port Fibre Channel switch
Gigabit Ethernet switch
(two required)
See the Solution Deliverable List (SDL) at
dell.com/oracle for information on supported
configurations.