Owner's Manual

9
Installing and Configuring Enterprise Linux
CAUTION: To ensure that the operating system is installed correctly, disconnect all
external storage devices from the system before you install the operating system.
This section describes the installation of the Red Hat and Oracle Enterprise
Linux AS operating system and the configuration of the operating system for
Oracle Database deployment.
Before You Begin
Before you install the Enterprise Linux operating system, download the
Enterprise Linux Quarterly Update ISO images from the Red Hat Network or
Unbreakable Linux Network, and burn these images to CD/DVD. Refer to the
following Web site for information on installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/
Table 8. Minimum Hardware Requirements for a switched or direct-attached single node
iSCSI
Hardware Component Configuration
Dell™ PowerEdge™ system
(single node using Automatic
Storage Management (ASM)
or Oracle Cluster File System
for Linux (OCFS2))
Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron Supported Processor
families
1 GB of RAM with Oracle Cluster File System Version
2 (OCFS2) or Automated Storage Management
(ASM)
Internal RAID controller for internal hard drives
Two 73-GB hard drives (RAID 1) connected to PERC
Three Gigabit Network Interface Controller (NIC)
ports
Two optical host bus adapter (HBA) ports
Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3000i
storage system.
See your Dell PowerVault MD3000i storage system
documentation for more details.
Dell PowerVault MD1000
storage expansion enclosure
(optional).
See your Dell PowerVault MD1000 storage expansion
enclosure documentation for more details.
Gigabit Ethernet switch
Two - iSCSI network
(preferred)
See the Solution Deliverable List (SDL) at
dell.com/oracle for information on supported
configurations.