I have just put together some videos to demonstrate installing Oracle RAC 11g R2 successfully in VMWare, simulating 3 separate nodes. I will be adding a 4th node in VMWare to demonstrate how to add (and later remove) nodes and RAC instances in open databases.
These videos show how viable it can be to use VMWare to build a test RAC enviroment, even with the latest version, 11g R2, despite the system requirements espoused by Oracle. I take great pains to build the VMs and prep them for installation success, and I will later document all these processes and possibly create videos of the process too.
Please enjoy and let me know what you think!
Video 1 shows Grid Infrastructure installing on 3 VMWare nodes
Video 2 was destroyed when Camtasia decided to crash and leave no temp files behind; it was the installation of 11g R2 Database in RAC
Video 3 shows DBCA starting up
Video 4 shows 3 instances of the RAC database up and kicking
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Nice stuff Eric. And congrats on joining the Blogoshere
I’ve highlighted you new site on my blog, and will see whether some of the Oracle Aggregators will include it.
Great work!
Can I get access to Video 2 again? Are you going to redo it since was it was destroyed.
Suneet.
I am going to work on a new series of videos that starts from scratch through to completion… following a structured architecture so it’s easy to search for what you need to see.
do you recomend 3 node cluster vs 7 nodes cluster what’s the gain of having 7 nodes instead 3 nodes?
Thanks for sharing your videos. Your videos were simple and informative and it motivates me to learn more about oracle products.
Hi Eric,
Can u send me the links of all the 11gR2 RAC videos?
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