These videos will be published in a seemingly random order, partly related to how I decide to edit/cut them.  Also there will be some differences in video/audio quality as I improve my processes over time.  The videos were not necessarily shot in the order of execution, but I will sequence them in a “Playlist” on youtube so it’s easy to figure out the order in which they should be watched.

Please keep in mind there will be gaps.  At present, I have put four new videos up; my intention is the following set of videos:

1. Working with VMWare: Understanding guests, multiple virtual NICs, vmnet, vmdks, and the cloning process
2. Install Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL, RHEL, CentOS) 5.4 or 5.3 using a kickstart file to build a generic “base brick machine” (BBM)
3. Understanding runlevels and booting into single user mode with GRUB and Linux
4. Create an iSCSI target host using a BBM (not bloated openfiler)
5. Create a router using a BBM to serve as a gateway and DHCP server for the public network of a RAC
6. Create a DNS server using a BBM, and create zones for Oracle Grid Infrastructure GNS
7. Install Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10.2.0.x and patch to 10.2.0.5 (10gR5) on a BBM
8. Understanding ssh user equivalency and using the basics of authorized_keys
9. Prepare a BBM for Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g R2
10. Install Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g R2 in VMWare on 2 nodes
11. Run root scripts for Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g R2
12. Install Oracle Database Real Application Clusters (RAC) 11g R2 on 2 nodes
13. Creating a RAC 11g R2 database using DBCA

Arguably steps 4 and 9 are probably the most difficult for configuring a RAC; #4, creating the shared storage “device” (in this case, a server running OEL with iSCSI target software) and #9, attaching the nodes to this device.

The 4 videos I’ve prepared and uploaded so far:

4. Create an iSCSI target host using a BBM
9. Prepare a BBM for Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g R2
10. Install Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g R2 in VMWare on 2 nodes
11. Run root scripts for Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g R2

The playlist that I will maintain with this full list of videos is at this link.
http://www.youtube.com/user/masterschema#grid/user/8DBBE5E49A28EA6A

I messed up the NTP configuration, so the root.sh during the Grid Infrastructure install failed.  My intention is to build up a demo environment to show off all the features of 11gR2 as best as possible, all in Virtual Machines so that you can simulate the same educational environment on your own poor-man’s-garage-cluster. =)

I’ll whip up some documentation and procedures some time next week if there’s any interest from the community.  If no interest is expressed, I shall just keep my own notes for personal purposes and publish tidbits that might mean very little to others, so let me know (via comments or otherwise) what you think, and what you’d like to see.

Host machine: MacBook Pro (my portable lab) with 4GB of ram and built-in HD for all VM storage; VMWare Fusion 2.0.5; 2 Nodes attempted with Grid Infrastructure (ASM and Oracle Clusterware components).