Oracle rac on vmware windows

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Let me list two scenarios. They follow Oracle's recommendation of making sure that the VM nodes are on separate physical blades.

Customer three decides to install RAC on a single 16 core blade to serve a RAC database with a single instance to allow future addition of RAC instances on seperate nodes. All three customers can schedule a maintenance window every few months and both have licenses for RAC and VMware already purchased. Which customer has the significantly better performing system? Would you advise customer two to use VMware with RAC only to get the benefit of "point 2", reduced planned downtime? Which customer made the best decision?

BTW: at a Hotsos presentation, one of the presenters told us that a two node cluster should not be allowed. I don't remember the details of why. Do you think a two node RAC cluster is a bad idea? August 01, - pm UTC. I can say this "there are people doing it and they appear happy with the results" do I think it is a good thing personally? My opinion says "no, probably not, I'd rather not with RAC" Which customer has the significantly better performing system?

Probably the one where you used one 16 core server has the best performance, but then you are missing other things. Followed by RAC. A reader, August 02, - pm UTC. Assuming same load, application and database. I would say the customer that identifies the performance bottlenecks server, network, storage, database, August 02, - pm UTC. Arnold, I am not vmware expert. I am just an Oracle DBA and use this skill to have bread and butter for my family. By the grace of God, I have learnt VMware by reading manuals, googling and doing some hit and trial on different options.

I just know how to configure it and to make Oracle RAC run on it. I would not be able to help you on that. Good Luck and just one advice never forget to do Meditation in the name of All Mighty before you sleep everyday and pray for me to be in meditation all the time even at work as this is the only thing that will be with us.

Regards Gurpartap Singh. I would say whosoever wants to feel it just pray for it and do meditation in the remembrance of God and that will do wonders. I have seen many people having fun that that way, actually that is the only thing for which we have taken the birth. Hi Gurpratap, Thanks for this blog, would you mind to share the configuration Processor detail of your installation please?

Thanks Dilip. Hello Dilip, Thanks for visiting the blog. Hello Gurupratap, Thanks for this blog. I am planning to install 11gR2 RAC using your blog. Could you please share with me the location where you downloaded the software's so that I also use the exact image and not lose any patches or rpms. Thank you very much in advance. Regards, Thanzeer.

Congrats Thanzeer for your new laptop. Great to know that you found the note good enough to follow. Here is the list of software required. Host Operating System is Win 7 bit. Get from Microsoft 2.

Google it out, free download 3. Oracle Grid Infrastructire 11gR2 linux bit. Download from ww. Oracle Database Software 11gR2 linux bit. VMware workstation 7. It's not free download though 6. Google it out, free download 7.

Google it out, free download 8. Xming Google it out, free download Good Luck! Thanks for a massage!!!! This article is awesome Thanks for your comments "pks". I have followed all your steps and verified then twice. What could be wrong? Thank You Paramjeet Gill. Hello Paramjeet, thanks for visiting my blog. Click the "Next" button onthe welcome page. Select the "Windows" guest operating system option, and set the version to "Windows Server Standard Edition", then click the "Next" button.

Select the amount of memory to associate with the virtual machine. Remember, you are going to need two instances, so don't associate too much, but you are going to need approximately 1 Gig Meg to compete the installation successfully. Set the disk size to " The latter will make disk access slower, but will save you wasting disk space. Accept "RAC1. On the "Virtual Machine Settings" screen, highlight the "Floppy 1" drive and click the "- Remove" button. Place the first Windows SE disk in the CD drive and start the virtual machine by clicking the "Power on this virtual machine" button.

The right pane of the VMware Server Console should display a boot loader, then the Windows installation screen. Continue through the Windows installation as you would for a normal server. To be consistent with the rest of the article, the following information should be set during the installation. You are free to change the IP addresses to suit your network, but remember to stay consistent with those adjustments throughout the rest of the article.

VMware sometimes creates additional network adapters, which will prevent the clusterware from loading. Delete any additional adapters as follows. Open a command prompt on RAC1 and issue the following commands. Now check for extra network adapters. You would expect two, but if there are more than this, uninstall the greyed out adapters. Rename the two connections to "public" and "private" respectively, making sure you apply the names to the appropriate connections.

The Clusterware installation is very sensitive, so make sure you read the Checking Network Requirements section of the documentation, and make any necessary changes. In addition to the configuration mentioned above, the documentation suggests two more configuration changes that I did not find necessary on VMware Server.

Even so, it is advisable to make the changes. Set the hardware acceleration when prompted by clicking the "Yes" button and following the instructions on the subsequent screens. Shut down the RAC1 virtual machine and create a directory on the host system to hold the shared virtual disks. Click the "Next" button on the welcome screen, then select the hardware type of "Hard Disk" and click the "Next" button.

Some of the tries will already be present, some will not. When the server has started, log in so you can partition the disks. Prior to partitioning the disks on Windows Server , you must enable disk automounting.