Time Required: 10 minutes

Class Materials:

• None

Next we need to edit the Windows registry to change certain behaviours and to make sure we are ready for a RAC install.

Open a command prompt and type regedit to open the Windows registry editor.

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Time Required: 30 minutes

Class Materials:

• None

Next we need to add additional networking components to allow our RAC nodes to communicate.

Oracle RAC requires two separate networks, one for public traffic and one for private cluster traffic. Both adapters must use static IP addresses.

VMware Workstation already installed a Bridged Adapter as part of the install process, and this adapter will provde internet access to our VM. But in most cases, the IP address of this adapter will change as DHCP leases expire, or in the case of a laptop, the machine moves from network to network.

Therefore, we need to add two additional NICs on virtual networks between the RAC nodes, one to be our public network and the other to be our private network.

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Time Required: 30 minutes

Class Materials:

• 50GB of free disk
• An operational VMware Workstation 9 or later install
• Windows Server 2008R2 64-bit install media

To create our Oracle RAC database on Windows on VMware Workstation 9, we first need to create a Windows VM.

I am using an ISO image of Windows Server 2008R2 that I downloaded from MSDN. An MSDN subscription offers developers the opportunity to test out different technologies from Micorosft for development purposes.

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