Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 for Oracle RAC Configuration Guide Extracts for HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite, Second Edition, May 2008

Planning SGeRAC Installation and Configuration
Installation Requirements
Chapter 2
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Installation Requirements
Make sure each node on which you want to install or upgrade SGeRAC meets the
installation requirements.
• “Hardware Requirements” on page 26
• “Supported Software” on page 27
• “Supported Operating Systems” on page 28
• “Supported HP-UX Operating Environments” on page 28
• “Required HP Patches” on page 29
Hardware Requirements
Make sure that you have the correct equipment to install SGeRAC
Table 2-1 Hardware Requirements
Item Description
SGeRAC
Systems
From two to eight HP-UX systems connected to the public network
running HP-UX 11i v2 or 11i v3.
HP recommends that each system have two or more CPUs at 2GHz
or higher.
DVD Drive One drive that is accessible to all nodes in the cluster.
Disks Typical SGeRAC configurations require that shared disks support
applications that migrate between systems in the cluster.
Note: On HP-UX 11i v2 and v3 you must use DMP devices for I/O
fencing.
The coordinator disk does not store data, so configure the disk as the
smallest possible LUN on a disk array to avoid wasting space.
Disk Space See “Disk Space (local)” on page 27
RAM Each SGeRAC system requires at least 256 megabytes.
HP recommends 2 GB or more of physical memory.
Swap Space HP recommends at least double of main memory.
Network
Links
Two or more 100BaseT or Gigabit Ethernet links directly linking
each node to the other node to form a private network that handles
direct inter-system communication.
HP recommends switches for the private network links. These links
must be of the same type; you cannot mix 100BaseT and Gigabit.