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Installing Oracle 11.2.0.3 on CentOS 6.3 on VMware Workstation 8.

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In this blog post, we are going to install Oracle 11.2.0.3 64-bit on CentOS 6.3 using VMware Workstation 8. Given that Oracle no longer offers ASMLib for non Oracle branded Linux, we are going to use UDEV rules to manage the disk presentation to ASM.

In my 10-part post on installing Oracle RAC on VMware Workstation I deliberately used an excessive number of screen shots to guide readers through the process. This time I am going to assume you are already comfortable with the Oracle GUI installers, and will skip over excess details to condense this down into a single blog post.

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scsi_id on CentOS 6 on VMware returns null

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You may find the scsi_id command returns a null result in CentOS 6 or RHEL 6 on VMware.

[root@localhost ~]# scsi_id -g -u -d /dev/sdb
[root@localhost ~]#

 
The problem here is that VMware Workstation does not provide unique SCSI identifiers to the virtual SCSI devices. We need to modify the VMX file to make this happen by adding the following directive:

disk.EnableUUID = "TRUE"

 
Restart the VM and now the scsi_id command should work:

[root@localhost ~]# scsi_id -g -u -d /dev/sdb
36000c2980c56d98cc5150a0ac103058d

11gR2 Grid install – clscfg.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libcap.so.1: cannot open shared object file

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You are installing 11gR2 11.2.0.1 Grid Infrastructure on Red Hat 6, CentOS 6 or similar Linux operating system, and right at the very end of the process, the root.sh script blows up with a really odd error:

[root@localhost oraInventory]# cd /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1
[root@localhost db_1]# ./root.sh
Running Oracle 11g root.sh script...

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