Daily Archives: October 27, 2012

Oracle 11gR2 2-node RAC on VMware Workstation 8 – Part VIII

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Time Required: 60 minutes

Class Materials:

  • 5GB of disk space
  • an ASCII text editor

Next we are going to add some shared disk to our new freshly minted VMs

VMware Workstation makes the allocation of shared disk to VMs very simple. Shared disk has been the biggest obstacle to create Oracle RAC clusters at home, but now VMware gives us a reliable and portable solution that does not require fire-wire hacks, your own NFS server or a SCSI disk array.

Best of all this whole solution can exist on a single laptop, so you can take your RAC on the road.

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Oracle 11gR2 2-node RAC on VMware Workstation 8 – Part VII

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Time Required: 60 minutes

Class Materials:

  • none

Next we are going to give our two new VMs identities.

As discussed in the previous section, I have decided to name my VMs Orpheus and Eurydice. In this section we will give each machine a hostname plus static IP address on the VMnet2 and VMnet3 networks we created earlier.

This will allow our two operatic lovers to communicate both publicly and privately.

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