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Oracle 11gR2 11.2.0.3 2-node RAC on Windows 2008 on VMware Workstation 9 – Part I

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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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