Comments on: Oracle RAC 11g R2 Install How-To in VMWare and iSCSI

By: Marcello Travassos

Marcello Travassos — Mon, 23 May 2011 11:42:17 +0000

Hi,

Could you please provide me the steps to complete step 6 – Create a DNS server using a BBM, and create zones for Oracle Grid Infrastructure GNS?

Thanks in advance.

Marcello Travassos.

By: Macy

Macy — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 03:28:38 +0000

Excellent work! I hope you can finish all the videos for all the steps specially the networking (router/dns setup) using BBM. thanks!

By: Jag V

Jag V — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 22:01:26 +0000

Thank you for putting together a great article.
I just followed the your document and able to complete until creating CentOS_BASE_RAC , RAC vm is able to discover the target/Luns available on iscsi machine. when I shutdown CentOS_BASE_RAC, “Synchronizing SCSI cache for disk sdm ” start .. after 3 attempts of 180s it fails to sync. I guess this is happening because network connection were closed before the “Synchronizing SCSI cache” step and CentOS_RAC_BASE vm unable to reach iSCSI server. Is this a bug ..or am I missing configuration like _netdev in /etc/fstab for network dependant drives? I am using Cent OS 5.5 x86_64 version( I am experiencing the same issue with Cent OS 5.4 x86_64). At the end it failes on all disks sdb-sdm, and shutdown process completes.
Did any have faced this issue?
Thank you.

By: Ben Prusinski

Ben Prusinski — Sat, 15 May 2010 04:34:05 +0000

Eric,

Excellent videos! I am looking forward to hopefully see a step by step guide to setup 11gR2 RAC with VMWare on the Mac.

Cheers,
Ben

By: Simar Singh

Simar Singh — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:02:51 +0000

Hi Eric

I really liked these videos. I have the following question:

In the very first video you say I will be preparing this node for SAN and I will start from the base build from previous video. Where is that previous video?

Regards

By: Jose Baduria

Jose Baduria — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:37:45 +0000

This is great. I followed video for step 4 and was successful in creating the iscsi LUNS. I followed video for step 9. I got to the point that i was running the iscsiadm -m discovery -t sendtargets -p XXXXXX command and I come up with no output. If I just run iscsiadm -m discovery I get XXXXXX:3260 via sendtargets. I might have missed something but can’t figure it out. I already went thru the video twice.

By: Johnny

Johnny — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:40:29 +0000

There is a lot of very good information here. I have been playing with the concepts on a test machine at home. It has been awesome. You mentioned having notes for this. Is it possible to get a copy? I am interested in the step of creating the iscsi luns with tgtadm and having them available in ASM. I seem to be missing a step. The luns are created by when I do the ASM install I am not able to see them as Cantidate disks. I am using 1 disk for all of this. Thanks.

By: Daniel Mburu Kimethu

Daniel Mburu Kimethu — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:09:16 +0000

Nice staff dude!!
I am very wet on this and want to dive very deep. Keep me busy watching and scratching my head

By: Ayo

Ayo — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:47:53 +0000

Nice tutorials – i am looking forward to the first two videos as those will serve as a foundation for trying out what you are showing in the videos.

Keep up the great videos – thanks.

By: Marly

Marly — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:31:09 +0000

Great Blog – keep it up! Saved me hours of time building my own. Thank you!