Time Required: 20 minutes
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Next we need to create the Oracle user account, OS groups and mount point.
The Oracle software will be installed and owned by the oracle user account. In addition, several OS groups are created that allow other non oracle OS users privileged access to the database and grid resources.
Time Required: 60 minutes
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Next we are going to create two networks for our RAC system to talk on.
The Oracle RAC system requires at least two network connections between cluster nodes. One network will be the public IP and the second will be a private IP reserved for inter-cluster traffic.
VMware Workstation makes this setup very simple.
Time Required: 20 minutes
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Next we need to configure the Linux kernel to support Oracle 12cR1.
Before we can install Oracle 12cR1 on our new VM, we need configure the Linux kernel. The following steps modify key settings to allow Oracle to execute.
Time Required: 20 minutes
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Before we can install Oracle 12cR1 on our new VM, we need to load additional RPM packages that are required by the Oracle database and grid.
Time Required: 60 minutes
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To create our Oracle 12c RAC database on VMware Workstation 9, we first need to create a Linux VM.
Oracle 12c will eventually be released for a multitude of platforms, but the initial release only support Solaris SPARC, Solaris x86 and Oracle Linux 6.4.
I don’t own a SPARC machine, so instead I am going to install Oracle 12c RAC on CentOS 6.4.
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.
Time Required: 60 minutes
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Next we are going to install the Oracle Database 11gR2 software.
This is the last part of our ten-part process of installing a two node RAC on VMware Workstation 8.
To begin, download the zip file from the Oracle software download website and unzip on Orpheus. Make sure you are logged into Orpheus as the oracle user so that oracle owns the unzipped files.
Time Required: 60 minutes
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Next we are going to install the Oracle Grid Infrastructure software.
The Grid Infrastructure will provide the Cluster software that allows the RAC nodes to communicate, as well as the ASM software to manage the shared disks.
To begin, download the zip file from the Oracle software download website and unzip on Orpheus. Make sure you are logged into Orpheus as the oracle user so that oracle owns the unzipped files.
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