Re: How to install Oracle 10g RAC on OEL Linux 5 using VmWare?

From: Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:41:11 -0500
Message-ID: <ad3aa4c90909170541m59a213cj893768d4e1197d27_at_mail.gmail.com>

I never managed to successfully share drives that way on vmware workstation. However, when I created a third vm, running openfiler, I was able to share iscsi virtual drives from that. This was a more realistic approach anyway.

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:52 AM, D'Hooge Freek <Freek.DHooge_at_uptime.be>wrote:

> When I did some testing with rac and vmware workstation, I had to add the
> following lines to my vmx file:
>
> disk.locking = "FALSE"
> diskLib.dataCacheMaxSize = "0"
> diskLib.dataCacheMaxReadAheadSize = "0"
> diskLib.dataCacheMinReadAheadSize = "0"
> diskLib.dataCachePageSize = "4096"
> diskLib.maxUnsyncedWrites = "0"
>
> regards,
>
> Freek D'Hooge
> Uptime
> Oracle Database Administrator
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>
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> Behalf Of Syed Sabdar Hussain [sabdar.ocdba_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: 16 September 2009 20:01
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> Subject: How to install Oracle 10g RAC on OEL Linux 5 using VmWare?
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to install Oracle 10g RAC on OEL Linux 5 using VmWare. But
> getting the following error.
>
> “the location /dev/sdb1, entered for the oracle cluster registry (ocr) is
> not shared across all the nodes in the cluster….”.
>
> I checked the ownership and permissions are correct. And also zeroed the
> /dev/sdb1.
>
> If you know any solution, or any reference for installing Oracle 10g RAC on
> OEL Linux 5 using VmWare will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> SYED.
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>

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