Re: Laptop Oracle exercises

From: Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 10:24:46 -0600
Message-ID: <CAJvnOJbnKqU3zp2EJD4TRhe+MkL0N+PyQhRAVpuDZCQ3YutbjQ_at_mail.gmail.com>

Many of the RAC exercises available that use virtual machines work around many storage issues by setting up shared virtual disks directly. I have found that it is a much more realistic exercise to set up a third virtual machine running Openfiler or similar software to share out the disks as iscsi devices. This makes you learn how to connect to the iscsi device, setup the shared disks using ASM or udev, etc., all problems that you are likely to run into in the real world that you wont necessarily see from using a shared virtual disk.

You might also be able to use the openfiler server as your dns server when you set up the SCAN, rather than using a hosts file. Once again, a much more realistic exercise than using the hosts.

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Chris Taylor < christopherdtaylor1994_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> I would also add EXPERIMENT EXPERIMENT EXPERIMENT (as you go) with the any
> of the above labs. By breaking something (or screwing it up), you build a
> better understanding of the whole process.
>
> Chris
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Hans Forbrich <fuzzy.graybeard_at_gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> 1) Go to http://otn.oracle.com and look for the Technical Articles in
>> the menu on the left side. A lot of these have set up details.
>>
>> 2) Go to http://otn.oracle.com and search "Build RAC". A number of good
>> articles, including those by Jeffery Hunter (
>> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/hunter-rac11gr2-iscsi-088677.html
>> )
>>
>> 3) Go to http://racattack.org/12c which leads directly to the RAC Attack
>> step-by-step for 12c, based on 2VMs on a 4GB RAM laptop
>>
>> 4) Go to http://Orafac.com and browse. Nearly every page has something
>> useful, and the 12c install atricles are right up front.
>>
>> 5) Ditto for http://oracle-base.com as in
>> http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/11g/data-guard-setup-11gr2.php
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> On 10/01/2014 2:38 AM, Ronan.Merrick_at_cso.ie wrote:
>>
>> Do you have a link to those articles please?
>>
>>
>>
>

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