As promised in a recent post, I’ve updated the Oracle 11gR2 RAC on Oracle Linux 5 article. It now uses VirtualBox 4.2.6, rather than 3.2.8 as it was before, and Oracle Linux 5.8. I’ve purposely left it as an 11.2.0.1 installation as you can get this from OTN without needing access to My Oracle Support [...]
I spent today updating my Oracle 11gR2 RAC installation on OL6 article. The original article used an older version of VirtualBox , which meant some of the screen shots looked a little dated. It’s now updated to VirtualBox 4.2.6, so it should be a little less confusing for anyone who is new to VirtualBox. I’ll probably [...]
Followers of my blog know I like doing virtual RAC installations.When I do these I’m focusing very much on the Oracle side of things, leaving the virtualization tool to handle the hardware virtualization, like networking and shared disk. A few weeks ago Gilbert Standen contacted me to say he had done a virtual RAC installation using OpenvSwitch to [...]
Some time ago I wrote an article about configuring DNS for the SCAN address in Oracle 11gR2 RAC. http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/linux/dns-configuration-for-scan.php Over the last couple of days one of the Oakies has given me some feedback on the article based on his experiences with Oracle Linux 5. For my virtual RAC installations I typically do the DNS [...]
I mentioned the day before Open World I put a Virtual RAC on Oracle Linux 6.1 article live. Although the procedure was complete, some of the screen shots were from an old article as I didn’t have time to redo them before my flight. I’ve just run through the procedure again and taken new screen [...]
It’s all a bit last minute, but today I decided to do an Oracle 11gR2 (11.2.0.3) RAC installation on Oracle Linux 6.1 using VirtualBox. The 11.2.0.3 patch has fixed all of the installation issues related to RAC on OL6.1, so it was pretty smooth. The procedure can be seen here. Oracle Database 11g Release 2 [...]
As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve kinda ignored the fact that any operating system other than Linux (specifically Oracle Linux) exists. It’s quite easy to do when you are working with Oracle products and you get to choose your own environment. As a vague nod to the fact that Windows does actually exist, I’ve finally got [...]
With the recent news that the latest version of VirtualBox now supports shared disks, I thought I better give it a go and see if I could do a RAC installation on it. The good news is it worked as expected. You can see a quick run through here: Oracle Database 11g Release 2 RAC [...]
I finally got round to trying an NFS installation of 11gR2 RAC. Oracle Database 11g Release 2 RAC On Linux Using NFS No real surprises here. It all seems a little simpler when using NFS, but it was cronically slow on my crappy kit. Cheers Tim…
A couple of new articles have crept out recently. The first is me pretending to understand DNS. DNS Configuration for the SCAN used with Oracle RAC Database 11g Release 2 I used this configuration in place of the “/etc/hosts” in my VMware RAC installation and it worked great. The second is a brief romp through [...]