The Dell Database Solutions Engineering team recently completed a reference paper describing the process to deploy Oracle® 10g RAC database on Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS5000XV Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network (SAN) arrays.
This white paper provides an architectural overview and configuration guidelines for deploying a two-node Oracle 10g R2 Enterprise Edition Real Application Clusters (RAC) database with Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003 R2 Enterprise or Standard Edition with SP2 on Dell PowerEdge™ servers with Dell EqualLogic PS5000XV iSCSI SANs. Using the knowledge gained through joint development, testing, and support with Oracle, this Dell Reference Configuration documents “best practices” that help speed Oracle solution implementation and simplify operations and improve performance and availability. The complete paper can be found here.