Quick Start Manual

12 Software and Hardware Requirements
Dell™ PowerEdge™ 6950, 2970, M605,
R805, R905, system (up to eight nodes
using Automatic Storage Management
(ASM) or Oracle Cluster File System
(OCFS))
• AMD Opteron™ processor family.
• 1 GB of RAM.
• Two 73-GB hard drives connected to an
internal RAID controller.
NOTE: It is recommended to use two
73-GB hard drives (RAID 1) connected to
an internal RAID controller based on
your system. See your PowerEdge system
documentation for more details.
• Three Gigabit Network Interface
Cards(NICs).
• Two host bus adapters (HBAs) for use
with PowerEdge 6950 or 2970.
• 1 QME2472/QME2572 or LPe1105-
M4/LPe1205 [dual port] HBA for use
with PowerEdge M605/M805/M905.
Gigabit Ethernet switch (two required) See dell.com/oracle for information on
supported configurations.
For Dell/EMC AX4-5F, CX3-10C, CX3-20,
CX3-20F, CX3-40, CX3-40F, CX3-80,
CX4-120, CX4-240, CX4-480, CX4-960
Fibre Channel storage systems
See the Dell | EMC system
documentation for more details.
For Direct-attached SAS
Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3000 with
MD1000 expansion storage system.
See your Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3000
and MD1000 storage system
documentation for more details.
For Direct-attached or switched iSCSI
Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3000i with
MD1000 expansion storage system.
See your Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3000i
and MD1000 storage system
documentation for more details.
Dell EqualLogic PS Series Storage One Dell EqualLogic PS Series array
with sixteen 15,000 RPM SAS disks.
Two Gigabit Ethernet switches for
iSCSI SAN.
Table 2-2. Oracle Database 10g/11g Enterprise Edition on Microsoft Windows
Server 2003 R2 SP2 or Windows Server 2008 SP2 Standard/Enterprise x64
Editions Minimum Hardware Requirements (continued)
Hardware Component Configuration