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Software and Hardware Requirements 13
Minimum Hardware Requirements for an iSCSI Configuration
Table 2-8 through Table 2-9 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 2-8. 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 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 PERC
Three Gigabit Network Interface Controller
(NIC) ports
Two Gigabit Network Interface Controller
(NIC) 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.
Gigabit Ethernet switch
(two required) - private
interconnect
See the Solution Deliverable List (SDL) at
dell.com/oracle for information on supported
configurations.