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8 Software and Hardware Requirements
Minimum Hardware Requirements
The following sections list the hardware requirements for Fibre Channel,
direct-attached SAS, and iSCSI configurations. For more information
on specific hardware components, see the documentation included
with your system. For more information about Dell Supported hardware
configurations, see the Solution Deliverable List (SDL) for each
Dell Validated Component at dell.com/oracle.
NOTE: To achieve the required performance, choose a system that exceeds the
minimum hardware requirements based on the number of users, the applications
you use, and the batch processes.
Minimum Hardware Requirements for a Fibre Channel Configuration
Table 2-2 through Table 2-3 indicate the minimum hardware requirements
for a Fibre Channel cluster and single-node configuration.
NOTE: The hardware configuration of all the nodes in a cluster must be identical.
Table 2-2. Minimum Hardware Requirements for a Fibre Channel 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 Automatic Storage
Management (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 optical host bus adapter (HBA) ports
Dell/EMC Fibre Channel storage
system (optional)
See the Solution Deliverable List (SDL)
at dell.com/oracle for information on
supported configurations