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VMware ESX and Oracle RAC…

It looks like those possible VMware ESX articles I mentioned yesterday are now on the VIOPS site.

10g RAC on RHEL4 using ESX Server and NFS

11g RAC on RHEL5 using ESX Server and NFS

If you’re interested in the enterprise VMware kit it’s worth taking a look at the site. New stuff is being added all [...]

Oracle 11g RAC on Windows…

I guess you would have to be in a coma to not notice that Oracle 11g is now out for Windows 32-bit.
To celebrate this release I’ve done an 11g RAC on Windows 2003 article, which is an update of my 10g RAC on Windows 2003 article. With both installations, if you get the networking stuff [...]

Articles and stuff…

Articles:
I think I’m finally getting myself back on track. It’s been an unusual few weeks though.
I spent quite some time complaining that I couldn’t think of anything to write about and hoping 11g would inspire me. Since the release of 11g and the inevitable installation articles, I’ve felt rather lethargic again. Getting into a new [...]

Oracle 11g RAC on NFS…

As a follow-on from my 10g RAC on NFS article, I thought it would be nice to have an 11g RAC on NFS article. The process is very similar, with a couple of exceptions:

The Virtual IP Configuration Assistant (vipca) runs in silent mode without any problems now. Under 10g, you had to use a “real” [...]

Oracle 10g RAC using NFS…

I’ve mentioned it before, but I really like Kevin Closson’s blog. For some time he’s been evangelizing about Oracle RAC over NFS, so I thought I would give it a go to see what it’s all about and here is the result.
Oracle 10g RAC On Linux Using NFS
I was only using two machines, and I [...]

10g RAC on Linux…

I spent the Bank Holiday weekend playing with 10g RAC on Linux. I don’t have a FireWire disk, and I didn’t want to destroy my NAS, so I decided to user VMware Server to fake it. That process resulted in this:
Oracle Database 10g Release 2 (10.2.0.1) RAC Installation On CentOS 4 Using VMware Server
It’s got [...]