Deployment Guide

Deployment Guide 15
•HBA drivers.
•
PowerVault MD3000 Resource CD (when using the PowerVault MD3000 as
backend storage)
The storage must be configured with a minimum of four virtual disks/LUNs
(two for the redundant Voting Disk and Oracle Cluster Registry and two for
the database and Flash Recovery area) assigned to cluster nodes.
Setting Up Your Fibre Channel Cluster
After a Dell Managed Services representative completes the setup of your
Fibre Channel cluster, verify the hardware connections and the hardware and
software configurations as described in this section. Figure 1-1, Figure 1-2,
and Table 1-4 illustrate the required cluster connections for a storage area
network (SAN)-attached Fibre Channel cluster with two nodes.
Table 1-3. Virtual Disk (LUN) Configuration and Sizes
Virtual
Disk/LUN
Minimum Size Number of Partitions Used for
1 2 GB 5 (3 x 50 MB and
2 x 120 MB)
Voting disk
(3 x 50 MB)
Oracle Registry
(2 x 120 MB)
2 Larger than the
database
1 Database
3 At least twice the size
of the database
1 Flash Recovery Area