Tim Hall of oracle-base.com fame wrote a guide on installing Oracle RAC on VMware Server... to think that people are scared of running RAC on ESX, and here's Tim doing the job on our free, hosted product! Great work, Tim!
Of course, we couldn't leave it like that, so I logged on to Tim's website, registered myself, and asked him if he'd be interested in doing the same on ESX Server....
....once we got him some Not For Resale licenses to help him along with full access to our products, Tim arranged his own hardware and - this is the amazing bit - whilst consulting around the country he STILL managed to find time to install our products, create RHEL virtual machines, install RAC and get it all written up!
After working with myself and Tushar on getting things up and running and onto VIOPS, I think the whole thing took about a week in elapsed time and a couple of days in actual effort.
The end results are fantastic, and you can see them here:
Check out Tim's website for more goodies.
More applications proven practices are planned - why not contribute your own, or help us prioritize the ones that you want to see first? Post a question in the discussion forum, or just get going and submit your own proven practice - it's really easy!
Steve Chambers
Bob Stephens
I remember when Oracle had VMware VM templates on the Oracle Technology website for free download to create a simple, two-node RAC cluster on a laptop or small desktop. I actually installed and configured this myself while I was at NetApp, in early Oracle 10g Release 1 days. Of course, the hardening of Oracle's position with respect to VMware quickly put a stop to that. This fills the gap left by that removal nicely. Thanks very much.