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10 Software and Hardware Requirements
Minimum Hardware Requirements for a Direct-attached SAS Configuration
Table 2-4 through Table 2-5 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 2-4. Minimum Hardware Requirements for a Direct-attached SAS Cluster
Hardware Component Configuration
Dell PowerEdge system
(up to two nodes using
Automatic Storage Management
(ASM))
Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron Supported
Processor families
2.5 GB of RAM with 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.