Re: Completely unsupported, I know (RAC 11g on a laptop)
From: <gareth_at_jamms.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 02:52:42 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <4e53dbff-4855-458a-8001-9efb77f4fdd6_at_l16g2000pra.googlegroups.com>
On 28 Apr, 01:29, Palooka <nob..._at_nowhere.com> wrote:
> I am trying (for self educational purposes) to install RAC (11g) on a
> laptop using VMware with two guest clients (CentOS5 masquerading as
> RHEL5) in a cluster.
>
> Does anyone have an idea what the minimum physical RAM is on the host?
> I have 2GB, so when I try to allocate 1GB each to the nodes it gets a
> bit unstable. However, if I allocate 512M to each guest, their OS is
> perfectly stable, but there does not seem to be sufficient resource to
> start the ASM instances successfully.
>
> I think I need to upgrade the laptop to 4GB physical RAM before this
> will work. What is the opinion of the panel?
>
> Thanks,
> Palooka
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 02:52:42 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <4e53dbff-4855-458a-8001-9efb77f4fdd6_at_l16g2000pra.googlegroups.com>
On 28 Apr, 01:29, Palooka <nob..._at_nowhere.com> wrote:
> I am trying (for self educational purposes) to install RAC (11g) on a
> laptop using VMware with two guest clients (CentOS5 masquerading as
> RHEL5) in a cluster.
>
> Does anyone have an idea what the minimum physical RAM is on the host?
> I have 2GB, so when I try to allocate 1GB each to the nodes it gets a
> bit unstable. However, if I allocate 512M to each guest, their OS is
> perfectly stable, but there does not seem to be sufficient resource to
> start the ASM instances successfully.
>
> I think I need to upgrade the laptop to 4GB physical RAM before this
> will work. What is the opinion of the panel?
>
> Thanks,
> Palooka
What's my opinion? Apart from the fact that you're crazy? :)
I don't know off the top of my head, however, 2GB seems like it's never going to be enough to achieve what you want. I think a RAM upgrade is your best bet.
HTH -g Received on Tue Apr 28 2009 - 04:52:42 CDT