Oracle RAC hardware requirements

Question:  How do I see the minimum hardware requirements for Oracle RAC?

Answer: Oracle RAC hardware is release dependent and you can run RAC on a PC.  It's best to get the step-by-step directions from the book "Personal Oracle RAC Clusters: Create Oracle 10g Grid Computing at Home".

For a complete listing of the minimum hardware requirements for RAC in UNIX/Linux, see the RAC hardware compatibility for UNIX.  In part, these requirements include:

Category	Technology
Network Interconnect Technologies	Ethernet 100 Mbps or 1 Gigabit NIC's and Switches 10 Gigabit (see notes)
	InfiniBand (IB) RDS over IB is supported IP over IB is supported
Storage Technologies All storage products must be supported by the server (host) and storage vendors	Fibre Channel (FC)
	Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
	SCSI
	iSCSI
	NFS File Server
Cluster File System/Volume Manager	OCFS 2
	OCFS
	GFS 6.x
	PolySeve Matrix Server CFS 3.x
	Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System (SFCFS) for Oracle RAC

Platform	Technology Category	Technology
Linux x86	Server/Processor Architecture	32-bit x86 Architecture
Linux x86-64 (AMD64/EM64T)	Server/Processor Architecture	64-bit x86 Architecture
Linux Itanium (IA64)	Server/Processor Architecture	64-bit IA64 Architecture

Platform	Technology Category	Technology
IBM Power Linux	Server/Processor Architecture	IBM System p, i, BladeCenter JS20, JS21
	Network Interconnect Technologies	Direct Ethernet in partitions between systems
	Cluster File System/Volume Manager	GPFS 2.3, 3.1
IBM zSeries Linux	Server/Processor Architecture	IBM System z
	Network Interconnect Technologies	VLAN within one System z Ethernet over Gigabit OSA card for two System z HyperSockets
IBM S/390 Linux	Server/Processor Architecture	Servers that support the certified Linux/390 releases
	Network Interconnect Technologies	HyperSockets

Again, consult Oracle Corporation for the most up-to-date hardware for RAC.