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12 Software and Hardware Requirements
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.
Table 2-7. Minimum Hardware Requirements for a switched iSCSI cluster
Hardware Component Configuration
Dell PowerEdge system
(up to eight nodes for Oracle
Enterprise Edition or up to two
nodes for Oracle Standard Edition
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 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.
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
Gigabit Ethernet switch (two)
private interconnect (two)
iSCSI network (preferred)
See the Solution Deliverable List (SDL) at
dell.com/oracle for information on
supported configurations.
*Dell EqualLogic PS Series Storage is supported only with Red Hat or Oracle
Enterprise Linux AS x86_64 Version 5.x.
Table 2-6. Minimum Hardware Requirements for a Direct-attached iSCSI Cluster
Hardware Component Configuration