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Software and Hardware Requirements 9
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 ASM
Internal RAID controller for internal
hard drives
Two 73-GB hard drives (RAID 1)
connected to PowerEdge RAID
Controller (PERC)
Three network interface controller (NIC)
ports (one public and two private)
Two optical host bus adapter (HBA)
ports (SAN)
Dell/EMC Fibre Channel storage
system (optional)
See the SDL at dell.com/oracle for
information on supported configurations.
Ethernet switch (three) One switch for public and two switches
for private interconnect. See the SDL at
dell.com/oracle for information on
supported configurations.
Dell/EMC Fibre Channel switch (two) 8 port Fibre Channel switch for two to
six nodes
16 port Fibre Channel switch for seven or
eight nodes