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Software and Hardware Requirements 9
Gigabit Ethernet switch (two required) See the Solution Deliverable List (SDL)
at dell.com/oracle for information on
supported configurations
Dell/EMC Fibre Channel switch
(two required)
8-port Fibre Channel switch for two
to six nodes
16-port Fibre Channel switch for seven
or eight nodes
Table 2-3. Minimum Hardware Requirements for a Fibre Channel Single Node
Hardware Component Configuration
PowerEdge system (single node
using Automatic Storage
Management
Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron Supported
Processor families
2.5 GB of RAM
Two 73-GB hard drives (RAID 1) connected
to PERC controller or SAS controller
Two Gigabit Network Interface Controller
(NIC) ports
Dell/EMC Fibre Channel storage
system (optional)
See the Solution Deliverable List (SDL) at
dell.com/oracle for information on supported
configurations.
Dell/EMC Fibre Channel switch
(optional)
8-port Fibre Channel switch
Gigabit Ethernet switch
(two required)
See the Solution Deliverable List (SDL) at
dell.com/oracle for information on supported
configurations.
Table 2-2. Minimum Hardware Requirements for a Fibre Channel Cluster (continued)
Hardware Component Configuration