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Verifying Cluster Hardware and Software Configurations 23

Verifying Cluster Hardware and

Software Configurations

This section provides setup information for hardware and software cluster

configurations.

Before setting up the cluster, ensure that you have the minimum hardware

installed as shown in Table 4-1.

Each node must have the following software installed using:

•

Dell Systems Management Tools and Documentation

DVD (see Ta b le 3-1).

•

Windows Server 2003 SP2 Standard/Enterprise x64 Edition

Windows

Server 2008 SP2 Standard/Enterprise x64 Edition

(see Ta bl e 2-1).

•

Dell|Oracle Windows Resource

CD image version 4.3.

NOTE: Ensure that the HBA drivers are installed.

•

PowerVault MD3000 Resource

CD or

PowerVault MD3000i Resource

(when using the PowerVault MD3000/MD3000i as back-end storage).

The storage must be configured with a minimum of four LUNs or virtual

disks (two for the redundant Voting Disk and Oracle Cluster Registry and two

for the database and Flash Recovery area) assigned to cluster nodes.

Table 4-1. Virtual Disk (LUN) Configuration and Sizes

LUNs or

Virtual Disk

Minimum Size Number of Partitions Used for

1 3 GB 5 (3 x 275 MB and

2 x 300 MB)

Voting disk (3 x 275 MB)

Oracle Cluster Registry

(2 x 300 MB)

2 Larger than

the database

1 Database

3 At least twice

the size of the

database

1 Flash Recovery Area