Dell | Oracle Tested and Validated Configurations

The Dell | Oracle^®  Software Product Matrix represents the detailed software information on the Dell supported configuration for Oracle Database 9i with Real Application Clusters on Red Hat^® Enterprise Linux^®  AS.

As new software updates are introduced, Dell performs ongoing testing and quality assurance. While they are not on the deployment CD, the following updates can be applied to a Dell supported configuration running Oracle database or RAC:

Dell | Oracle Database 9i Enterprise Edition version 2.3 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1 (updated 4/12/2004) Dell | Oracle Database 9i Enterprise Edition version 2.3 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1 (updated 3/28/2004)

1. Single Node Configuration

Figure 1 shows an overview of the hardware and connections required for the Single Node configuration.

Figure 1.1: Dell | Oracle Single Node with Internal Storage

Figure 1.2: Dell | Oracle Single Node with External Storage

2. Fibre Channel Cluster Configuration

Figure 2 shows an overview of the hardware and connections required for the fibre channel configuration. Up to eight nodes are supported.

Figure 2: Dell | Oracle Fibre Channel Cluster Architecture