Installation of RAC

As we know, if you want to setup Oracle Server especially for testing purpose it would be better to setup it on your virtual
al PC, not on PC directly. For this purpose, you can use software named VMware to achieve this aim. In this document, firstly we discuss how we can use VMware, how we can setup it, create a new Virtual PC. On the next articles, well discuss how to install OS (as an operating system, Im using Centos) on this virtual machine. CentOS is a freely-available operating system that is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux system. Then well try to setup Oracle Server (10g Release 2) on this virtual machine In this article, lets show how we can setup and create new VMware Virtual machine and prepare it for further OS installation 1. First of all, enter to the official site of VMware and download VMware Workstation with a 30day free evaluation from this address: https://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/?p=workstation-w Currently Im using version 6.0.0 and all these examples are compatible and tested with this version 2. After downloading VMware workstation, install it on your PC
3. Setup will open Welcome Screen
Click on Next button and choose Typical option
4. By clicking Next buttons, to begin the installation, click on Install button at the end
5. This will install VMware Workstation software on your PC, After installation complete, click on Finish button. Then restart your PC. Then open this software
6. In this step we try to create new virtual machine. Enter to File menu, then New-> Virtual Machine Click on Next button, then check Typical option as below
Then click Next button, and check your OS version. In this example, as were going to setup Oracle server on CentOS, well check Linux option and from version option well check Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
By clicking Next button, well give a name to our virtual machine, and give directory to create this new virtual machine
Then select Use bridged networking option and click Next.
Then youve to define size of hard disk by entering its size. Ill give 15 GB hard disk space and please check Allocate all disk space now option. Although it will take longer to create new hard disk, youll see high performance of your virtual machine when installing new applications and adding new files. If you uncheck this option, new hard disk will be created automatically, but when you install new applications, it will impact your performance, because it will allocate space each time new files added or applications installed Thats all. Your virtual machine is ready to use
Here, you can delete Sound Adapter, Floppy and USB Controller by entering Edit virtual machine settings. If youre going to setup Oracle Server, please make sure youve increased your Memory (RAM) to 1GB In the next article, well show how to setup CentOS on this newly created virtual machine. Its very easy, believe me
Installing CentOS on VMware Step by Step

Posted by Kamran Agayev A. on January 5th, 2009
Today, Im going to show you, installation of CentOS on a virtual machine First of all, weve to download CentOS. CentOS is a freely-available operating system that is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux system. You can download the latest release (5) from its website. To download, please refer to download page of CentOS web site
http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/5/isos/i386/ Select nearest location and begin downloading *.iso files. After you finish downloading *.iso files, you have to mount it and let your VMware recognize it as a virtual cd or dvd. For this purpose, I prefer to download one DVD *.iso installation file. Please open VMware, double click on CD-ROM (IDE 1-0) item, select Use ISO image option and click Browse button to select your recently downloaded *.iso installation file of CentOS as shown below
Now you virtually inserted you installation DVD into DVD-ROM. And youre ready to install your OS virtually.
You should change your Memory to 1024 MB for your further Oracle installation. Double click on Memory item and set it to 1024 Then click Power button to start your virtual pc
When your virtual pc starts, youll see welcome screen of installation CentOS
If youll not be able to see this screen, then restart your virtual pc and click Esc button for Boot menu. And from this menu, select CD-ROM Drive Click enter. The installation will tell you to begin testing of your installation cd or dvd. Select Skip button. It will skip testing your cd media and save your time
Then youll get another welcome screen, you only have to click next button on this screen
Select your language of installation and click Next
Then, select your keyboard configuration to use it for the system youre installing and click Next
Then, youll be warned to create new partitions by erasing ALL DATA on your newly created hard drive. As theres no information in this drive, youll select Yes
In this step, just let it remain selected and click next
Then therell be warning You have chosen to remove all Linux partitions (and ALL DATA on them) on the following drives: /dev/sda Are you sure you want to do this? Click Yes Then, youll see Network Configurations screen, as it is your test virtual pc, dont change anything and click next. You can change whatever you want after installation, for now, let it continue in this way and click Next
From this screen, select your region and click Next
Then, youll be prompted to enter password for root user, enter it and click Next
To install packages, especially for working with Oracle Server, select all options except Clustering and Storage Clustering. Then select Customize now option and click Next
Then, from Base System menu, select Legacy Software Support, System Tools and click Next
Now, youre ready for installation. Click next on this screen, the installation will begin
Youll see how all packages are installing. After a while, your OS will be ready for use
After the installation is completed, click Reboot button to reboot your OS
After reboot, youll face with another Welcome screen. Therere some steps need to be completed Click Forward button on the screen.
Here, just disable your Firewall. Its only for test purpose, dont disable your Firewall on real system! And click forward button
For testing purpose, it would be good to disable SELinux too
Then keeping Kdump disabled, click Forward
If you need, make your Date and Time configuration and click Forward
If you want to create a new user, you can fill these blanks. You can pass this step too by clicking Forward button
Then Click Finish and the system will reboot
After reboot, CentOS will be opened and youll be prompted to enter username (root) and password (roots password)
Your Centos is ready to use! Congratulations.
In the next article, Im going to show installation of Oracle 10g Release 2 on our Centos OS
Additionally, while using an operating system inside VMware, you recognize that every time you have to enter to its area and then press Ctrl+Alt buttons to leave this area and to return to your system. To solve this issue, you should install VMware Tools.
As the VMware Tools will be installed from CD-Rom device, you should disconnect your connected CD-Rom device as shown below
Next, Select VM menu on VMware application and select Install VMware Tools menu item.
Then click Install button on this message box to Install VMware Tools
Then enter to My Computer and double click on CD-ROM Drive. Youll see there two packages.
Now, double click on *.rpm file to setup After installation complete, copy another *.gz file to anywhere in hard drive. In our example we are coping it to tmp directory inside FileSystem, paste the file into this folder, right click on it and select Extract Here menu item
Then enter to the folder vmware-tools-distrib and double click on vmware-install.pl file and click Run in Terminal button
Then, whenever youre asked to enter the value, just click enter But when youre prompted to enter value for the display size of your X, be careful to enter default value. If you want your Virtual Machine to be little size, enter 2 (800-600) Thats all! Your VMware Tools installed. Now you can enter to VMwares area and exit it without clicking Ctrl+Alt P.S. If youll face with VMware hgfs: HGFS is disabled in the host error, just reboot your system
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Step by Step installing Oracle 10g RAC on VMware

Posted by Kamran Agayev A. on April 5th, 2011 In this guide Im going to show you the process of creating Oracle 10g R2 RAC on OEL4. First of all I have to mention that Ive prepared this guide based on the well known RAC on VMWare guide of for Vincent Chan which can be found at OTN. After using that guide Ive decided to create a more screenshot based explained guide and prepared this blog post which contains 150 screenshots! These days wordpress.com is working veeeeery slowly, so it took me two days to upload all images and create this blog post That was really boring. But now the blog post is online and I would be glad to hear the visitors valuable feedbacks. In this tutorial, we use OEL4 because Oracle 10gR2 is not compatible with OEL5 (as the db was released before the OS released) As in my all tutorials, I use vmware virtual machine. In this guide I will create two virtual machines. Lets start creating the first machine. But before it, create three directories inside one folder (for example c:\vmware) [code]C:\vmware\rac1 C:\vmware\rac2 C:\vmware\sharedstorage[/code] Create the following virtual machine in the first folder and create all shared storages in the third folder
Click Next
Select Typical and click Next
Select Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and Click Next
Provide the name of the virtual machine (rac1), select the location for vmware disk (you can make it c:\vmware\rac1) and click Next
Select bridged network and click next
Define the size of the hard drive of the virtual machine and click Next (set it to 20 GB and dont check Allocate all disk space now checkbox)
Mount the ISO image of the OEL4 installation and start adding more four hard drives and one Ethernet device. Click on Add button
Select Hard Disk and click Next
Select Create a new virtual disk and click Next
Select SCSI and check Independent->Persistent and click Next
For the first device, specify the disk size as 3gb, check Allocate all disk space now and click Next
Create a separate folder named C:\vmware\sharedstorage in your hard drive, set the name of the new hard drive to ocfs2disk.vmdk.
After creating the first device, create more three devices with 4GB in size (asmdisk1.vmdk, asmdisk2.vmdk, asmdisk3.vmdk) and make all of them Independent->Persistent and dont allocate the disk space for each of them
Next, start changing the device node for each of them. Start from the firstly added hard drive, select it, click on Advanced button and make it SCSI 1:0. For next hard drive make it 1:1 and so on
Add new Ethernet device
Change the network connection to Host-only
Make sure that the last state of your virtual machine looks like as its seen above
Then locate the configuration file of the virtual machine and start editing it
Add the lines that are marked in bold to the configuration file to make the devices be shared between to nodes By specifying disk.locking to FALSE will allow any virtual machine to load a SCSI disk device even its in use by an another virtual machine Specify diskLib.dataCacheMaxSize = 0 to turn off the disk caching for clustered virtual machines. By specifying scsi1.sharedBus = virtual will give the whole bus the ability to be shared. This prevents the locking of this specific disk
Start the virtual machine
As you have already mounted the ISO image of the OEL4, the above screen appears
Click Skip
Click Next
Select installation language and click next
Select appropriate keyboard and click next
Select Server as the installation type and click Next
Select Disk Druid for disk partitioning method and click Next
Click Yes for all warnings and click Next
Double click in the first drive /dev/sda
Specify / as a mount point, make its files system ext3 and make the End Cylinder 900 (to make the size of the root folder 7Gb). Check Force to be a primary partition and click Ok
Select File System Type as swap and change End Cylinder to 1170
Create mount point called /u01, make its files system ext3 and make End Cylinder 2610 and click Ok
Make sure that the last state of your disk partitioning looks like as its seen above
Now lets configure the network devices. Select the first device and click Edit
Uncheck Configure using DHCP and provide the following ip address and netmask: IP Address: 192.168.2.131 Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Select the second device, edit it, uncheck Configure using DHCP and provide the following ip address and netmask IP address: 10.10.10.31 Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Set the hostname as rac1.test.az (you can provide any domain name) and set the gateway to 192.168.2.1
Disable Firewall and SELinux and click Next
Select the default language for the system and click Next
Select Time-Zone and Click Next
Provide the password for the root user and click next
Select necessary packages for Oracle installation. Heres the list of the necessary packages: X Window System Gnome Desktop Environment
Editors Graphical Internet Server Configuration Tools Legacy Network (click Details and select rsh_server and telnet-server) Development Tools Legacy Software Development Administration Tools System Tools (select all packages that starts with ocfs2 and oracleasm, select systat as well)
Click Next to start the installation
After installation completed the machine restarts. Click Next
Agree with license and click Next
Set the date and time and click Next
Set the display and click Next
You dont need to create a user so click Next
Click Next
Click Next and finish the installation
Now lets install vmware tools. For this, disconnect the mounted ISO image, choose Install VMware Tools from VM menu
Double click on VMware tools icon and run the .rpm file by double clicking on it
After the window is closed, open new terminal and run vmware-config-tools.pl and finish the installation of vmware tools
To synchronize the time on the virtual machine with the host machine execute vmwaretoolbox on the terminal window and check the check box
Edit /boot/grub/grub.conf file and add clock=pit nosmp noapic nolapic to the line that reads kernel /boot The clock=pit prevents the clock for running to quickly and nosmp noapic nolapic prevents the clock from running too slowly. After you make the change, reboot the machine for change to take effect
Now lets start the prerequisite steps for Oracle installation. For this well create a group, a user and some directories [code]groupadd oinstall groupadd dba
mkdir -p /export/home/oracle mkdir /ocfs useradd -d /export/home/oracle -g oinstall -G dba oracle chown oracle:dba /export/home/oracle /u01 passwd oracle[/code]
Change the .bash_profile (and .bashrc) file and add the following lines: [code]export EDITOR=vi export ORACLE_SID=devdb1
export ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle export ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/10.2.0/db_1 export ORA_CRS_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/10.2.0/crs_1 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib export PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$ORA_CRS_HOME/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/us r/X11R6/bin umask 022[/code]
Now switch to oracle user with su oracle command. Make sure all environment variables are set (echo $ORACLE_HOME). After that, create the following directories: [code]su - oracle mkdir -p $ORACLE_BASE/admin
mkdir -p $ORACLE_HOME mkdir -p $ORA_CRS_HOME mkdir -p /u01/oradata/devdb[/code] Note that if environment variables are not set correctly, then the above mentioned directories will not be created.
Change /etc/security/limits.conf file with a root user and add following lines: [code]oracle soft nproc 2047 oracle hard nproc 16384
oracle soft nofile 1024 oracle hard nofile 65536[/code]
Change /etc/pam.d/login file and add the following line:
[code]session required /lib/security/pam_limits.so[/code]
Now mount the third installation cd of the OEL4, connect it and open new terminal. Switch to the RPMS folder inside the cd and install libaio-0.3.105-2.i386.rpm and openmotif21-2.1.3011.RHEL4.6.i386.rpm packages
[code]rpm Uvh libaio-0.3.105-2.i386.rpm rpm Uvh openmotif21-2.1.30-11.RHEL4.6.i386.rpm[/code]
Change /etc/sysctl.conf file and add the following lines:
[code]kernel.shmall kernel.shmmax kernel.shmmni kernel.sem fs.file-max
= 2097152 = 2147483648 = 4096 = 250 32000 100 128 = 65536
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000 net.core.rmem_default net.core.rmem_max net.core.wmem_default net.core.wmem_max = 1048576 = 1048576 = 262144 = 262144[/code]
Then execute the following command for change to take effect: /sbin/sysctl -p
Now lets configure the network configuration files. For this we need to add IP addresses and hostnames to the /etc/hosts file in each node and test the connection by pinging the hostnames [code]127.0.0.1 192.168.2.131 localhost rac1.test.az rac1
192.168.2.31 10.10.10.31 192.168.2.132 192.168.2.32 10.10.10.32
rac1-vip.test.az
rac1-vip
rac1-priv.test.az rac1-priv rac2.test.az rac2-vip.test.az rac2 rac2-vip
rac2-priv.test.az rac2-priv[/code]
Try the connection by pinging all hostnames (dont ping VIP addresses as they will be created during clusterware installation): ping rac1.test.az ping rac1-priv.test.az and son on
Now start creating disk partitions for OCFS2 and ASM. /dev/sdb will be used for OCFS2 and rest devices will be used for ASM. fdisk /dev/sdb Type n (to create new partition)
Type p to create a primary partition Type 1 to provide the partition number Double click on Enter and type w to save the changes Perform above steps for all hard disk: fdisk /dev/sdc fdisk /dev/sdd fdisk /dev/sde
To map the raw devices to the shared partitions, change /etc/sysconfig/rawdevices file: [code]/dev/raw/raw1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/raw/raw2 /dev/sdd1
/dev/raw/raw3 /dev/sde1[/code] And run the following command to make it effective /sbin/service rawdevices restart Then change the permission for all newly created raw devices: [code]chown oracle:dba /dev/raw/raw[1-3] chmod 660 /dev/raw/raw[1-3] ls -lat /dev/raw/raw*[/code] Next, switch to the oracle user and create links for raw devices [code]su - oracle ln -sf /dev/raw/raw1 /u01/oradata/devdb/asmdisk1 ln -sf /dev/raw/raw2 /u01/oradata/devdb/asmdisk2 ln -sf /dev/raw/raw3 /u01/oradata/devdb/asmdisk3[/code]
As the raw devices are remapped on boot, change /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions with the root user and add the following lines: [code]# raw devices ram*:root:disk:0660
#raw/*:root:disk:0660 raw/*:oracle:dba:0660[/code] After performing all above steps, shutdown the virtual machine. Then copy all its files to another directory (c:\vmware\rac2)
Open it, switch to the Options tab, change its name to rac2 and start it
Open Network Configuration and change addresses of each Ethernet device. eth0 192.168.2.132 eth1 10.10.10.32
Then from Hardware Device type click on Probe button to get new MAC address, enable both network devices, change hostname to rac2.test.az and click Ctrl+S to save the changes. Then add the following line to the /etc/hosts file 127.0.0.1 localhost
Now its time to establish user equivalence with SSH. Oracle Universal Installer installs the binaries in one node and then propagates the files to the other nodes. For this, it uses ssh and scp command in the background during installation to run remote commands and copy files to the other cluster nodes. So SSH must be configured so that these commands not prompt for a password. For this power on the first machine, login with root user, switch to the oracle user and generate RSA and DSA key pairs su oracle ssh-keygen t rsa (click Enter twice) ssh-keygen t dsa (click Enter twice) Perform above steps in the second node (rac2)
Now (from rac1) add the generated keys to the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file [code]cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys[/code]
Then from rac1 SSH to rac2 twice and add the .rsa and .dsa keys to the authorized_keys file that locates in the first node: [code]ssh rac2 cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys ssh rac2 cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys[/code] Now copy the authorized_keys file from rac1 to rac2: [code]scp ~/.ssh/authorized_keys rac2:~/.ssh/authorized_keys[/code] After performing all above steps, you should successfully open SSH connection from rac1 to rac2 and vice verse. So run the following commands in both nodes and ensure that youre not prompted for the password for the second time: [code]ssh rac1 date ssh rac2 date ssh rac1-priv date ssh rac2-priv date ssh rac1.test.az date ssh rac2.test.az date ssh rac1-priv.test.az date ssh rac2-priv.test.az date[/code] I want to note again Please make sure that after running above commands on each node, youre not prompted for the password for the second time
Now lets configure Oracle ASM (Automatic Storage Management). So run the following commands from both nodes with root user: /etc/init.d/oracleasm configure Pass oracle as a parameter for default user
Pass dba as a parameter for default group Pass y for the third and fourth parameters Then create ASM disks on any node (try on the first node rac1) with a root user: /etc/init.d/oracleasm createdisk VOL1 /dev/sdc1 Marking disk /dev/sdc1 as an ASM disk: /etc/init.d/oracleasm createdisk VOL2 /dev/sdd1 Marking disk /dev/sdd1 as an ASM disk: /etc/init.d/oracleasm createdisk VOL3 /dev/sde1 Marking disk /dev/sde1 as an ASM disk: [ OK ] [ OK ] [ OK ]
Verify that the ASM disks are visible from every node. /etc/init.d/oracleasm scandisks Scanning system for ASM disks: /etc/init.d/oracleasm listdisks VOL1 VOL2 VOL3 [ OK ]
Now lets configure Oracle Cluster File System (OCFS2). For this, run ocfs2console with a root user from the first node. Then from the Cluster menu select Configure Nodes, click Add button and apply both nodes: rac1
192.168.2.131 7777 rac2 192.168.2.132 7777
Then propagate the configuration to the second node. For this select Propagate Configuration from the Cluster menu.
To configure O2CB to start at the boot unload and configure it on both nodes as a root user: /etc/init.d/o2cb unload /etc/init.d/o2cb configure
and pass the following parameters y ocfs2 61
Now format the file system on the first node (rac1). For this run ocfs2console program, select Format from the Tasks menu and click OK to format the drive. Press Ctrl+Q to quit
Now execute the following command on both nodes to mount the files system mount -t ocfs2 -o datavolume,nointr /dev/sdb1 /ocfs and add the following line to the /etc/fstab to mount the files system on boot /dev/sdb1 /ocfs ocfs2 _netdev,datavolume,nointr 0 0
Create a clusterware directory under /ocfs folder and change the owner: [code]mkdir /ocfs/clusterware chown -R oracle:dba /ocfs[/code] Now to test the shared device, create a file in the /ocfs directory from the first node (rac1) and check the same folder in the second node. cd /ocfs touch test_file ls Now download the clusterware installation, copy it under /tmp directory, unzip it and start the installation ./runInstaller Provide the folder for the Inventory and click Next Create a clusterware directory under /ocfs folder and change the owner:
[code]mkdir /ocfs/clusterware chown -R oracle:dba /ocfs[/code]
Now to test the shared device, create a file in the /ocfs directory from the first node (rac1) and check the same folder in the second node. cd /ocfs touch test_file
ls
Now download the clusterware installation, copy it under /tmp directory, unzip it and start the installation
./runInstaller
Provide the folder for the Inventory and click Next
Change the CRS folder to /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/crs_1 and click Next
After checking all prerequisites it should not give any warning, so click Next
Click on Add button and provide the information on the second node: Public Node Name: rac2.test.az Private Node Name: rac2-priv.test.az
Virtual Host Name : rac2-vip.test.az
Click on Edit button, change the Interface type of the first Ethernet device (eth0) to Public and the second to Private
Select External Redundancy and provide the location for OCR : /ocfs/clusterware/ocr
Select External Redundancy and provide the location for Voting Disk /ocfs/clusterware/votingdisk
Now click Install button to start the clusterware installation
After installation completes, run both scripts on both nodes Run /u01/app/oracle/oraInventory/orainstRoot.sh on rac1 and rac2 (wait each script to complete before running it on the second node)
Run /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/crs_1/root.sh on rac1 and rac2 (wait each script to complete before running it on the second node)
After running the second script on the second node (rac2) youll get an error (on running VIPCA), so you need to run it manually. Switch to the following directory
cd /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/crs_1/bin and run the ./vipca to create and configure VIP Select the first Ethernet device and Click Next
After running the second script on the second node (rac2) youll get an error (on running VIPCA), so you need to run it manually. Switch to the following directory cd /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/crs_1/bin
and run the ./vipca to create and configure VIP
Select the first Ethernet device and Click Next
Type rac1-vip on the IP Alias Name for the first node (rac1). The rest boxes will be filled automatically. Click Next
Click Finish to start the installation
After vipca finished successfully, switch to the first node and click OK button on the script running window.
Click Exit button to exit the installation of an Oracle Clusterware
Now copy the installation of the database (Oracle 10gR2) to the /tmp directory, unzip and start the installation. You need to start the installation with an oracle user, so run xhost + from the root user to allow the connection to the X server and switch to the oracle user xhost +
su oracle ./runInstaller
Select Enterprise Edition and click Next
Provide the installation directory (/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1)
Select both nodes and click Next
The prerequisite check should be successful, so click Next
Lets install just a software, so check Install database Software only and click Next
Click Install to start the installation
Execute the mentioned script on both nodes (wait for the script to finish before running it on the second node)
After installation finishes, run dbca (Database Configuration Assistant), select Oracle Real Application Clusters database and click Next
Select Configure Automatic Storage Management and click Next
Provide the password for an ASM instance, select Create initialization parameter file (IFILE) and click Next
Click OK to create and ASM instance on both nodes
Click YES to create listener on both nodes
Now lets create an ASM disks. For this, click Create New button
Provide the name of the diskgroup dg1, select the External redundancy, select two disks raw1,raw2 and click OK
The disk group will not be mounted in the second node, so omit this warning. The second node should be restarted (but not now)
Create the second disk group for flash recovery area (fg), select an External redundancy, select the last device (raw3) and click Ok
As you see, the state of disk group shows that its not mounted on the second node. For this, we need to restart the second node. Click on Finish and restart the second node. After it starts, login with root user and call dbca from the first node again.
Move to the above window again and youll see that the disk group is mounted on both nodes. Click on Finish button
Run dbca again and select Create a Database
Select General Purpose and click Next
Provide the database name devdb and click Next
Uncheck Configure the Database with Enterprise Manager as its taking too much (some hours) to finish (however, if you have enough RAM, you can check it) and click Next
Provide the password for the SYS user and click Next
Select Automatic Storage Management and click Next
Provide the password for ASM and click OK
Select the first disk group and click Next
Select Use Oracle-Managed Files and click Next
Check Specify Flash Recovery Area and chose FG disk group and click Next
Click Next
Click Next (Well create TAF afterwards)
Click Next
Click Next
Click Finish to start the installation
After some hours (as I was running each virtual machine with 1GB RAM) this screen appears. Click Exit
Now both instances will be started.
After all, check the status of the Clusterware. As you see, some applications are with OFFLINE state. To make them online, stop and start them with SRVCTL utility as its shown above
After all, check the CRS status again. As you see, the State column of all applications are ONLINE
Now connect to the database from the first node (rac1) and run the following query SQL>col host_name format a20 SQL>SELECT instance_name, host_name, thread#, status from gv$instance;
Try the conection to both instances: [code] [oracle@rac1 ~]$ sqlplus system@devdb1 SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Wed Mar 30 10:38:40 2011 Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved. Enter password: Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production With the Partitioning, Real Application Clusters, OLAP and Data Mining options SQL>exit [oracle@rac1 ~]$ sqlplus system@devdb2 SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Wed Mar 30 10:39:04 2011 Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved. Enter password: Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production With the Partitioning, Real Application Clusters, OLAP and Data Mining options SQL> [/code] Lets query datafiles and logfiles: [code] [oracle@rac1 ~]$ sqlplus system@devdb1 SQL> col file_name format a45 SQL> select file_name, bytes/1024/1024 size from dba_data_files; SQL> select file_name, bytes/1024/1024 "size" from dba_data_files;
FILE_NAME size --------------------------------------------- ---------+DG1/devdb/datafile/users.259.747087235 +DG1/devdb/datafile/sysaux.257.747087221 +DG1/devdb/datafile/undotbs1.258.747087233 +DG1/devdb/datafile/system.256.747087209 +DG1/devdb/datafile/undotbs2.264.747088231 SQL>
5 240 25 480 25
SQL> col member format a45 SQL> select group#, type, member from v$logfile; GROUP# TYPE MEMBER ---------- ------- --------------------------------------------2 ONLINE +DG1/devdb/onlinelog/group_2.262.747087539 2 ONLINE +FG/devdb/onlinelog/group_2.258.747087547 1 ONLINE +DG1/devdb/onlinelog/group_1.261.747087519 1 ONLINE +FG/devdb/onlinelog/group_1.257.747087533 3 ONLINE +DG1/devdb/onlinelog/group_3.265.747132209 3 ONLINE +FG/devdb/onlinelog/group_3.259.747132221 4 ONLINE +DG1/devdb/onlinelog/group_4.266.747132235 4 ONLINE +FG/devdb/onlinelog/group_4.260.747132249 8 rows selected. SQL>[/code] Now connect to an ASM instance and query the diskgroups: [code] export ORACLE_SID=+ASM1 sqlplus / as sysdba SQL> col name format a20 SQL> select group_number, name, state, type, total_mb, usable_file_mb from v$asm_diskgroup; GROUP_NUMBER NAME STATE TYPE TOTAL_MB USABLE_FILE_MB ------------ -------------------- ----------- ------ ---------- -------------1 DG1 MOUNTED EXTERN 8188 7048 2 FG MOUNTED EXTERN 4094 3760 SQL>
[/code] Now lets create a Service. Services are used to manage the workload in an RAC environment and provide high availability. To create the service run dbca
Select the first option and click Next
Select Service Management and click Next
Select the first database and click Next
Provide the name of the Service and click Next
When you specify PREFERRED instances, you are specifying the number of instances on which a service will normally run. The Oracle Clusterware attempts to ensure that the service always runs on the number of nodes for which you have configured the service. Afterwards, due to either instance failure or planned service relocations, a service may be running on an AVAILABLE instance
Select Preferred for the first instance, and Available for the second instance, change the TAF policy to Basic and click Finish After the Service created automatically, check tnsnames.ora file and youll see that the new entry is added
When you specify PREFERRED instances, you are specifying the number of instances on which a service will normally run. The Oracle Clusterware attempts to ensure that the service always runs on the number of nodes for which you have configured the service. Afterwards, due to either instance failure or planned service relocations, a service may be running on an AVAILABLE instance
Select Preferred for the first instance, and Available for the second instance, change the TAF policy to Basic and click Finish
After the Service created automatically, check tnsnames.ora file and youll see that the new entry is added
Try to connect to the database using this service. As you see, well automatically connect to the first instance. Now lets check the RAC high availability
For this, while connecting to the first instance (devdb1) using a service, open new terminal, connect to the first instance and shut it down
Now go back to the first session and query the v$instance view again. As you see, youll be automatically forwarded to the second instance In this step by step tutorial Ive shown you the deep step by step guide using 150 screenshots to make the RAC installation easier for you. I hope youll successfully install RAC and make your own tests. Good Luck!
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168 Responses to Step by Step installing Oracle 10g RAC on VMware

1. Wissem Says:
April 5th, 2011 at 1:35 pm
Thanks Brother, Really Useful Cheers, Wissem

2. Muhammad Adnan Says:
really Excellent Work Kamran.

i m vmworkstation 7 on windows 7 after changing the configuration file (VMX) for Locking / caching option, VM give message (Clustering is not supported)
i m using vmworkstation 7 on windows 7 , after changing the configuration file (VMX) for Locking / caching option, VM give message (Clustering is not supported)
5. Mohamed Azar Says:
Awesome Appreciate your hard work !!! Mohamed Azar.

6. Kamran Agayev A. Says:
Dear Muhammad Adnan, you can safely ignore that warning and continue the installation
7. Sheyda Parviz Says:

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8. ASHIK Says:
masha allah, nice work can we use the same method 11g versions
9. Elkhan Yusubov Says:
April 6th, 2011 at 2:27 am
Really nice work, Thanks Kamran ! Keep up this valuable work for ORACLE community !
10. Vips Says:
Thanks Kamran!!! It is very useful document. Do you have same doc in pdf format?
11. pratap Says:
Great Job .. Thanks a lot .. Kamran ! Please share your mail ld ..

Check the following link: http://kamranagayev.wordpress.com/about/

13. Amin Anwar Says:
Good job !!!!

14. Muzammil Says:
Thanks Kamran you have done a good job specially for new enters.
15. Amins Khan Says:

Dear Mr. Kamran, Thanks alot for sharing such a nice tutorial. I have been waiting for RAC for so long. Can we use the same method with 11g versions. Please let me know.
Dear Amis, thanks for feedback No, in 11g its different, Ill try to put an article on 11g as well
17. Step by Step installing Oracle 10g RAC on VMware (via Kamran Agayevs Oracle Blog) | Says:
[...] In this guide Im going to show you the process of creating Oracle 10g R2 RAC on OEL4. First of all I have to mention that I've prepared this guide based on the well known RAC on VMWare guide of for Vincent Chan which can be found at OTN. After using that guide I've decided to create a more screenshot based explained guide and prepared this blog post which contains 150 screenshots! These days wordpress.com is working veeeeery slowly, so it too Read More [...]
18. rajiv Says:
Hi kamran, Good work but details about software download for linux to be used is missing(centos,rhel etc).I downloaded oel4 but screens am getting are different than yours. can u tell me as which unix are u using here? Thanks Rajiv
19. Iss Says:
Hi kamran, im not able able to ping the rac2 machine. im getting destination host unreachable this what i have on both /etc/hosts file
127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.2.131 rac1.test.ca rac1 192.168.2.31 rac1-vip.test.ca rac1-vip 10.10.10.31 rac1-priv.test.ca rac1-priv 192.168.2.132 rac2.test.ca rac2 192.168.2.32 rac2-vip.test.ca rac2-vip 10.10.10.32 rac2-priv.test.ca rac2-priv this is my network settings from the host OS C:\Users\Administrator>ipconfig Windows IP Configuration Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 169.254.2.2 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : gateway.2wire.net Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::f42f:5673:3e63:3c42%14 IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.22 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.1 Ethernet adapter Bluetooth Network Connection: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet1: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::f5f4:c6cf:1a9a:83b9%19 IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.65.1 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet8: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::4d71:e31c:3448:77a5%20 IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.183.1 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : Tunnel adapter isatap.{81D569CB-A721-4718-881B-F1B45A0F4E08}: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Tunnel adapter isatap.{A0316E71-53CD-4AB8-B35F-DDDD66EDDA8A}: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Tunnel adapter Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2001:0:4137:9e76:2067:deb:3f57:fde9 Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::2067:deb:3f57:fde9%15 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : :: Tunnel adapter isatap.{24B7D0DB-9097-4AC3-91EA-C92E6350F04E}: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : C:\Users\Administrator>
20. Pedro Miguel Says:
Great job, im working with some projects in cloud and them uses vmware, i already had everything prepared for EBS whithout RAC and now ill start the same work with RAC so this article will gona help me too much, my thx
Dear ISS Have you done all steps as its shown in the screenshots? The first ethernet device should be Bridged and the second should be Host only
moreover, you need to start them both

22. Iss Says:
Hi kamran, I started again all from scratch. I may have got up mixed with the virtual machine copy and ip addresses i can ping now. Thanks
23. olaf Says:
cool, i learn a lot many thanks to kamranagayev

24. aamir hussain Says:
April 16th, 2011 at 11:55 am
Excellent! Its very helpful. You have done a wonderfull job for Us. Thanks
25. Iss Says:
Hi kamran, Will you also do tutorial on migration fron non rac to rac or from non asm to asm or any other combination Thank you.
26. Satiram qrubu Says:
wonderful
27. shankarreddy Says:
April 27th, 2011 at 10:24 am
Hi Kamran, Your documentation is good Regards, Shankar Reddy

28. Vineet Arya Says:
April 28th, 2011 at 10:07 am
Excellent article. Thanks for posting

29. lalitha Says:
May 8th, 2011 at 11:41 am
hi kamaran sir, i would like to appreciate your great job. this is amazing. Greteful to your hardwoek done here.Thank you soo much for providing a useful valuable doc . im using vmwareworkstaton 7 in windows 7, but after creating rac1 vmmachine, wen i tried to install RedHat linux 4 version..the slides are not same sa here ..meaning DHCP seetings (network settings).Im afraid to move ahead. i dont have Oracle Enterprise Linux..am using RedHat Linux 4. Appreciate you could say is it okay to move.
30. Jerry Says:
May 10th, 2011 at 6:05 pm
All good until I get to the ASM and OCFS2 setup section. Neither oracleasm nor ocfs2console exist in the OEL4 VM. Is there an installation section missing or have I missed a step?
May 10th, 2011 at 11:14 pm
Dear Jerry You have to install it during OS installation

May 10th, 2011 at 11:19 pm
Dear Lalitha, please download OEL 4 and perform your test on that OS
33. Anup A. uplenchwar Says:
May 14th, 2011 at 10:26 am
Hi, Kamran Thanks bro its really toooo goood. Again thanks!! for u r great supprot ..
34. M. Imran Says:
May 15th, 2011 at 11:50 am
Hi Kamra,
A good article for newbies. I am using OLE 4 on vmware 6 workstation but unable to mount OCFS2 shared drive on second node. Any help will be appreciated.
May 15th, 2011 at 1:46 pm
Dear Imran Could you please post what error you get?
36. M. Imran Says:
May 27th, 2011 at 8:07 pm
Dear Kamran, How I can check that my OLE 4.8 vmware is sharing disks. I have fallowed the steps carefully but my OCFS2 disk not mount at second node, I cant see it on second node after mounting it successfully on node1 (server of ocfs) I check /etc/ocfs2/cluster.conf that is properly formatted and when I check status of o2cb it shows me Active heartbeat at node1 only. I am using vmware 7 workstation, my vmx file is as fallows. I am great-full for you help. .encoding = windows-1252 config.version = 8 virtualHW.version = 7 scsi0.present = TRUE scsi0.virtualDev = lsilogic memsize = 1024 scsi0:0.present = TRUE scsi0:0.fileName = boot_linux.vmdk ide1:0.present = TRUE ide1:0.fileName = C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Workstation\linux.iso ide1:0.deviceType = cdrom-image floppy0.startConnected = FALSE floppy0.fileName = floppy0.autodetect = TRUE ethernet0.present = TRUE ethernet0.wakeOnPcktRcv = FALSE ethernet0.addressType = generated usb.present = TRUE ehci.present = TRUE sound.present = TRUE sound.fileName = -1
sound.autodetect = TRUE serial0.present = TRUE serial0.fileType = thinprint pciBridge0.present = TRUE pciBridge4.present = TRUE pciBridge4.virtualDev = pcieRootPort pciBridge4.functions = 8 pciBridge5.present = TRUE pciBridge5.virtualDev = pcieRootPort pciBridge5.functions = 8 pciBridge6.present = TRUE pciBridge6.virtualDev = pcieRootPort pciBridge6.functions = 8 pciBridge7.present = TRUE pciBridge7.virtualDev = pcieRootPort pciBridge7.functions = 8 vmci0.present = TRUE roamingVM.exitBehavior = go displayName = node1 guestOS = oraclelinux nvram = Oracle Enterprise Linux.nvram virtualHW.productCompatibility = hosted printers.enabled = TRUE extendedConfigFile = Oracle Enterprise Linux.vmxf ethernet0.generatedAddress = 00:0c:29:d6:b5:40 tools.syncTime = TRUE uuid.location = 56 4d 3d 26 e2 2e e0 18-34 10 06 cb 18 d6 b5 40 uuid.bios = 56 4d 3d 26 e2 2e e0 18-34 10 06 cb 18 d6 b5 40 cleanShutdown = FALSE replay.supported = TRUE replay.filename = scsi0:0.redo = pciBridge0.pciSlotNumber = 17 pciBridge4.pciSlotNumber = 21 pciBridge5.pciSlotNumber = 22 pciBridge6.pciSlotNumber = 23 pciBridge7.pciSlotNumber = 24 scsi0.pciSlotNumber = 16 usb.pciSlotNumber = 32 ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = 33 sound.pciSlotNumber = 34 ehci.pciSlotNumber = 35 vmci0.pciSlotNumber = 36 vmotion.checkpointFBSize = 16777216 ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = 0 vmci0.id = 416724289
tools.remindInstall = FALSE ethernet0.connectionType = bridged disk.locking=FALSE diskLib.dataCacheMaxSize= 0 scsi0.sharedBus =virtual scsi0:1.deviceType= disk scsi0:1.present = TRUE scsi0:1.fileName = asm1.vmdk scsi0:1.mode = independent-persistent scsi0:2.deviceType= disk scsi0:2.present = TRUE scsi0:2.fileName = asm2.vmdk scsi0:2.mode = independent-persistent scsi0:3.deviceType= disk scsi0:3.present = TRUE scsi0:3.fileName = asm3.vmdk scsi0:3.mode = independent-persistent scsi0:4.deviceType= disk scsi0:4.present = TRUE scsi0:4.fileName = ocr.vmdk scsi0:4.mode = independent-persistent ethernet1.present = TRUE ethernet1.connectionType = hostonly ethernet1.wakeOnPcktRcv = FALSE ethernet1.addressType = generated ethernet1.generatedAddress = 00:0c:29:d6:b5:4a scsi0:1.redo = scsi0:2.redo = scsi0:3.redo = scsi0:4.redo = ethernet1.pciSlotNumber = 37 ethernet1.generatedAddressOffset = 10 ide1:0.startConnected = FALSE unity.wasCapable = FALSE
37. babu Says:
June 2nd, 2011 at 9:35 pm
Can i install & implement this configuration on OEL 5? or i need only OEL 4?

June 6th, 2011 at 1:50 am
Dear Babu Yes you can, but you need to perform some prerequisites as OEL 4 is not supported with Oracle 10gR2 RAC
39. Deepika Says:
June 7th, 2011 at 7:07 pm
Hi, Sir is that to implement RAC we require dual core processor .. Sir could u please mention the details of hardware Best Regards Deepika
40. bhavan Says:
June 8th, 2011 at 11:46 am
Great work man.

June 8th, 2011 at 12:08 pm
Not its not required Deepika

42. pavan Says:
Hi, I am unable to share the /ocfs on 2nd node: [root@rac2 ~]# mount -t ocfs2 -o datavolume,nointr /dev/sdb1 /ocfs mount.ocfs2: Bad magic number in superblock while opening device /dev/sdb1 [root@rac2 ~]# Can you please help out! I will be delighted if you can? Thanks, Pavan
43. M. Imran Says:
June 12th, 2011 at 2:27 pm
Dear Kamran, I have tried with different combination to shared disk in VM but no luck. May be my OS or system architecture not supported for that. Then I tried openfiler on VM and it is working great and my two node cluster is flying now. Your blog help me a lot. Will try your all other tutorials. Thank you very much. Regards, Imran
44. Karthik Says:
June 15th, 2011 at 5:21 am
Awesome tutorial.Many thanks Kamran for providing such an useful guide and i appreciate you hard work involved in preparing this tutorial..
June 16th, 2011 at 3:06 pm
Thank you for the feedback Karthik

46. Deepika Says:
June 17th, 2011 at 12:39 am
Hi, Sir i read step by step i have a query related to vmvware as my using vmware workstation 7.0 and related to partions while installing Sir i wanted to implemented as it is great arcticle but wanted to confirm u wheather the same will work on vmware workstation 7.0 on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5 Regards , Deepika
47. Deepika Says:
June 17th, 2011 at 12:52 am
Hi, Sir u have clearly mentioned u are using OLE4 but sir i dont have ant\y other version as if i change the /etc/redhat-release 5.5 to 4 will that work as in cse of installation of oracle Regards Deepika
June 17th, 2011 at 12:56 am
Dear Deepika There may be some differences in configuration file of the vmware due to the version difference. And the installation RAC on OEL 5 has some pre-requisites (as it is not certified), so would suggest you to get the correct vmware and OEL (you can download OEL 4 from this link http://edelivery.oracle.com/linux)
49. Janis Griffin Says:
June 20th, 2011 at 9:05 pm
Great documentation on how to set up Oracle on VMware! A great tool to view all of the layers of virtual environment to see how your databases are performing in VM is IgniteVM. You can download a free trial of IgniteVM at http://www.confio.com. IgniteVM will show your Tops Sqls/Waits along with Database Health Metrics, the VM/OS guest layer, Host layer and Storage layer in one screen to help you quickly identify bottlenecks at any of the layers.
50. Mohammed.Ateeq Says:
June 26th, 2011 at 7:10 pm
Hi, i have installed vmware on windows xp. The vmware has Redhat linux AS4 installed. uname -i = i386 uname -r = 2.6.9-5.EL I am looking for oracleasm rpms related with this Linux OS. Could anyone please help me identify which rpms to download. I am facing problem @ this step: /etc/hosts/oracleasm configure Initializing the Oracle ASMLib driver: [FAILED] I tried this website(http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/serverstorage/linux/downloads/rhel4-092650.html), but couldnt the exact RPMS for my OS. Please suggest where i can download rpm and their names. Best Regards,
51. krishna Says:
June 26th, 2011 at 9:04 pm
Hi kamran how r u. where do I find the configuration file of the virtual machine and start editing it.
regards, krishna.
52. krishna Says:
June 27th, 2011 at 2:10 am
Hi kamran how r u. when I am double clicking on vmware tools the rpm package file is not appearing. Only .pl is appearing on the screen. what need to be done regards, ramakrishna.
53. kavita Says:
June 27th, 2011 at 2:44 pm
Hi, Sir iam getting stuck at this step when ever i execute [oracle@rac1 ~]$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -bash: ssh-keygen: command not found [oracle@rac1 ~]$ Thanks in Advance Regards Kavita
54. kavita Says:
June 27th, 2011 at 8:58 pm
Hi , Sir while doing the enteries in bash_profile and .bashrc iam facing the above issue iam using ole 4.4 Thanks in Advance Regards Kavita
June 28th, 2011 at 12:01 am
Which issue are you facing when entering to the bash_profile file?
June 28th, 2011 at 12:03 am
Try one of the following: /bin/ssh-keygen /sbin/ssh-keygen /usr/sbin/ssh-keygen

June 28th, 2011 at 12:06 am
Ive already shown where to find the configuration file in the screenshots. Please check the post cearfully
58. kavita Says:
June 28th, 2011 at 10:52 am
Hi, Sir if do the enteries in bash_profile my user oracel gets corrupt and non of the commands such as man ,pwd and ssh is not working an my termnal gets converted rac1> iam using the ole version 4 but still issues of user has arised Thanks in Advance Regards Kavita
59. rajat Says:
June 30th, 2011 at 9:23 pm
Hi kamran, I am getting below error, ssh rac2 cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys ssh:connect to host rac2 port 22:No route to host
July 1st, 2011 at 3:54 pm
Dear Rajat Have you specified rac2 in the /etc/hosts table? Are you able to ping it?
61. rajat Says:
July 1st, 2011 at 4:15 pm
Hi kamran,
i have mentioned entries in /etc/hosts file in both VM machines. Im able to ping locally on remote node but not able to ping rac2 on rac1 machine & viceverse. Kindly Suggest. Regards, Rajat
62. ibrahim Says:
July 4th, 2011 at 7:59 pm
Hi kamran i have a Error failed..pls help me in this step [root@rac1 devdb]# /etc/init.d/oracleasm configure Configuring the Oracle ASM library driver. This will configure the on-boot properties of the Oracle ASM library driver. The following questions will determine whether the driver is loaded on boot and what permissions it will have. The current values will be shown in brackets ([]). Hitting without typing an answer will keep that current value. Ctrl-C will abort. Default user to own the driver interface [oracle]: Default group to own the driver interface [oinstall]: Start Oracle ASM library driver on boot (y/n) [y]: Scan for Oracle ASM disks on boot (y/n) [y]: Writing Oracle ASM library driver configuration: done Initializing the Oracle ASMLib driver: [FAILED] Thanks ibrahim
63. ibrahim Says:
July 4th, 2011 at 8:19 pm
Hello kamran i resolve the problem..by google disable SElinux and firewall..I for got it But i have a Error in making a volume disk
[root@rac1 devdb]# /etc/init.d/oracleasm createdisk VOL1 /dev/sdb1 Marking disk VOL1 as an ASM disk: [FAILED] Thanks ibrahim
64. ibrahim Says:
July 5th, 2011 at 11:33 pm
Hi kamran, This ibrahim i have on completed upto /etc/init.d/o2cb unload /etc/init.d/o2cb configure and pass the following parameters y ocfs2 61 after that format from task is not working its show Error No unmounted partitions pls help me thanks ibrahim
65. SINY Says:
July 6th, 2011 at 11:36 pm
Hi I am not able to connect both the nodes in private network. Fro node 1 Im not able to ping rac2-priv ans vise-versa. I have configured both the private ethernet in host-only mode but basically both the nodes are not able to delect each other on this. Please help. [root@rac1 ~]# ping rac2-priv PING rac2-priv.test.az (10.10.10.32) 56(84) bytes of data. From rac1-priv.test.az (10.10.10.31) icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From rac1-priv.test.az (10.10.10.31) icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable From rac1-priv.test.az (10.10.10.31) icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable rac2-priv.test.az ping statistics 6 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 4999ms [root@rac2 ~]# ping rac1-priv PING rac1-priv.test.az (10.10.10.31) 56(84) bytes of data. From rac2-priv.test.az (10.10.10.32) icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable From rac2-priv.test.az (10.10.10.32) icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable From rac2-priv.test.az (10.10.10.32) icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable rac1-priv.test.az ping statistics 5 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 21778ms , pipe 3
66. mehmet Says:
July 9th, 2011 at 1:56 am
kamran your are beautiful men

67. Dshah Says:
July 15th, 2011 at 10:10 pm
thank you so much
Hi Kamran/All, I have installed vm workstation 7.1 on windows 7 machine, and have installed OEL 4, after installation of OEL 4 , when it tries to boot, it just hangs with blank screen..i tried turning off the machine and turning it back on , now after initial vmware screen it just hangs.any idea what is going wrong here? -Thanks in advance
68. khalid Says:
July 17th, 2011 at 3:39 pm
Excellent..
69. krishna Says:
July 18th, 2011 at 12:00 am
Hi kamran how r u. when I am double clicking on vmware tools the rpm package file is not appearing. Only .pl is appearing on the screen. what to do.
regards, ramakrishna.
70. Halim Says:
July 20th, 2011 at 1:11 pm
very nice, thanks for spending so many times. Regards Halim

July 22nd, 2011 at 5:15 pm
Dear Krishna You can run the pl file from Terminal. Switch to that folder and run ./file_name.pl
72. Vantuir Teixeira Says:
July 26th, 2011 at 2:19 am
Hi Kamran First of all, congratulations for the great article. Very good information. But I have a question. Hope you can help on that. I have followed all the steps, and Im able to mount the ocfs share in both nodes, but Im not able to see files that a create in such nodes. I mean, the file that I create from rac1, cant be seen in rac2. Please, let me know if you have any idea about what is the problem that Im facing. I used the following command to mount mount -t ocfs2 -o datavolume,nointr /dev/sdb1 /ocfs and also added instructions in /etc/fstab but when testing cd /ocfs touch test_file I cant see file in node 2. If I created from node 2, I cant see in node 1. Thanks, Vantuir
73. Vantuir Teixeira Says:
July 30th, 2011 at 1:17 am
Kamran, I have dropped and node 2 and recreated everything from the scratch. After that, I configured OCFS share again, and it could be seen by both nodes correctly. Thanks for the article. Very good one. My only suggestion is to add some lessons learned and common problems that you faced in a new session. Thanks, Vantuir
74. sheokand Says:
August 2nd, 2011 at 11:50 am
HI Kamran, Firstly Wishing you a lot of happiness in your life. Feeling freshness to reach on your blog today. Kamran I have configured 2 node RAC on VMware SERVER 2.0.2 . Host Configuration : INTEL Dual Core 1.80 Ghz Processor & 3 GB RAM Both Guest Machines boot up fine. But as I open one DB instance then execution & I/O performance is slow. But performance is extremely poor after opening 2nd DB instance. CPU usage by oracle on Guest Machine is around 10-30 %. Guest Machines do not swap & RAM usage on each guest is not more than 700MB. RAM usage decreases with time. But after all I am unable to understand WHY performance is so bad. As I think Resource Usage by VMWARE is not more than 50% but after that its performing very slow. Can you share your views to Diagnose & Resolve the performance problem ??? Thanks, Naveen Sheokand Email: ipeducation@yahoo.com
75. Arbind Kumar Karna Says:
August 18th, 2011 at 9:58 pm
Great work and Thats superb presentation !! Thanks, Arbind
76. San Maharjan (@san_maharjan) Says:

August 19th, 2011 at 8:58 am
Thanks Kamran Agayev A. This tutorial really worked for me. Successfully installed in VMWARE machine. CHEERS Regards Sandeep
77. Jazz Says:
August 21st, 2011 at 2:21 am
Where to locate the configuration file of the virtual machine ??

78. jain Says:
August 28th, 2011 at 1:40 am
HI Kamran, i am desperate in need of implementing 10g RAC (2 nodes) on windows server 2008, Please help me with the documents and links which i can relay on where it was tested before on the Similar Environment .Your Help would be great Thanks Jain
79. harsh Says:
September 1st, 2011 at 5:11 pm
Hello Kamran, Its superb work..I installed centos and install oracle 10g r2. and i want to configure rac. what is the basic requirement and steps i have to perform for configure rac. Thanks in Advance.
80. Vikram Poloju Says:
September 13th, 2011 at 9:40 am
Hi Kamran SIr, While I am installing the clusterware on my 2node RAC I have received the following error on node 2.( on node 1 it went fine) OCR create keys failed, OCR error 26 I tried to check the post cluvfy to see what happened and found below.
Post check of cluvfy Performing post-checks for cluster services setup Checking node reachability Node reachability check passed from node rac1. Checking user equivalence User equivalence check passed for user oracle. Checking Cluster manager integrity Checking CSS daemon Daemon status check failed for CSS daemon. Check failed on nodes: rac2 Cluster manager integrity check failed. Checking cluster integrity Cluster integrity check failed. This check did not run on the following nodes(s): rac2 Checking OCR integrity Checking the absence of a non-clustered configuration All nodes free of non-clustered, local-only configurations. ERROR: OCR ID is inconsistent amongst the nodes. Possibly different devices are in use across the nodes. OCR ID = 1075259151 found for nodes: rac1 OCR ID = 1293834159 found for nodes: rac2 OCR integrity check failed. Checking CRS integrity Checking daemon liveness Liveness check failed for CRS daemon. Check failed on nodes: rac2
Checking daemon liveness Liveness check failed for CSS daemon. Check failed on nodes: rac2 Checking daemon liveness Liveness check failed for EVM daemon. Check failed on nodes: rac2 Checking CRS health CRS health check failed. Check failed on nodes: rac1 CRS integrity check failed.
81. Ziya Says:
September 13th, 2011 at 12:04 pm
Great job Kamran. Thanks for sharing

82. Rajiv Says:
Hi Kamran, Thank you for posting this nice blog, while configuring hardware , regarding the ethernet adapters, while Im chosing the option to specify ethernet adapters details, Can I make use of the existing network adapters within the laptop or should I be using a new ethernet adapter installing it into laptop first and then my VM will be able to chose from it? . At present when I try to add the network adpaters section, Ive only one option i.e Physical network and nothing related to ethernet adaptersplease specify some details about this. Thanks Rajiv.
83. Mayur Says:
September 23rd, 2011 at 11:22 am
Hi Kamran, Thank you for such a nice tutorial. When I try to configure ocfs2 on second node I face below error,
[root@rac2 ocfs2]# /etc/init.d/o2cb enable Writing O2CB configuration: OK Loading module ocfs2_nodemanager: Unable to load module ocfs2_nodemanager Failed I search on internet but I didnt get any solution on that, Kamran please help me out. Thank a lot. Mayur
84. mayurpatil (@mspatil21) Says:
September 23rd, 2011 at 11:25 am
Hi Kamran, Thank you for such a nice tutorial. When I try to configure ocfs2 on second node I face below error, [root@rac2 ocfs2]# /etc/init.d/o2cb enable Writing O2CB configuration: OK Loading module ocfs2_nodemanager: Unable to load module ocfs2_nodemanager Failed I search on internet but I didnt get any solution on that, Kamran please help me out. Thank a lot. Mayur
85. Mayur Says:
September 25th, 2011 at 6:58 pm
Hi Kamran You did a very good job, Thanks a lot I install ocfs2 on node first not successfully but when I try it on second node it show below error, please help me out. [root@rac2 ocfs2]# /etc/init.d/o2cb enable Writing O2CB configuration: OK Loading module ocfs2_nodemanager: Unable to load module ocfs2_nodemanager Failed Mayur
86. Jayapal Says:
October 25th, 2011 at 6:53 pm
AWESOME presentation.. JAyapal..

87. brahmaji Says:
November 18th, 2011 at 8:58 pm
superb
88. Carlos Rozas Says:
November 24th, 2011 at 6:19 pm
Document very good, but you work and availability to share that work is the best. Congrats. Rgds. Carlos
89. Rajesh Says:
December 11th, 2011 at 12:57 pm
Hi Kamran Greetings! I tried to setup a vartual machine by using your doc but I got stuck on screen shot 7 (Specify Disk capacity). You mentioned in your doc that after unchecking the allocate all disk space we need to click on NEXT but screen shot does not contain any NEXT Button. It has and Button only. When I clicked on I got a error message like INVALID HANDEL. It never reach to next screen shot (Virtual Machine Setting) Can you please advise where I am making a mistake ??
90. suresh kumar Says:
Hi Sir, I am trying to install 10g rac on redhat 5 32 bit on vmware workstation 7. I following the samp step as you mention in document. But i stuck on vmware tools configuration. I turned off the io image and enable vmware tools configuration.When i did double click on vmware tools icon on desktop rac1 machine it doesnt show any rpm (i386.rpm) as you mention in docutment, and no any vmware command running ,getting vmware command not found. Please suggest , how i can fix this. Thanks Suresh kumar
91. VIBHOR Says:

December 31st, 2011 at 3:55 am
Hi kamran, First of all thank you very much for such a great work.This is the best documentation for rac on vmware. I am facing some problems. 1.sometimes oracle database software install only on first machine,no option comes for installing it on other node. 2.it also gives error CRS-0215 LISTENER COULD NOT BE STARTED. 3.It is mounting disk on node 1 only. plz help. waiting for ur reply. thank you
January 1st, 2012 at 7:27 am
Dear Vibhor Please make sure youve performed all steps before installing Oralce Software
January 1st, 2012 at 7:28 am
Right click on the VMware tools icon, and click on Eject. Then mount the vmware images again and see what happens
94. vijay Says:
January 5th, 2012 at 1:18 pm
hi i am vijay working as a appsdba in hcltech i follwed your step to install rac . vmware station clustering is not supported . so the setup will ignored . what i have do now regards vijay
95. RajB Says:
February 15th, 2012 at 2:33 pm
Hi Kamran, Kindly post video for the same installation if it is possible. Thanks RajB
96. S.M.Bahauddin Bakhtiar Says:

March 1st, 2012 at 10:12 am
Hi Kamran, Its a great document . I have some question about rac1 and rac2 mount point. that is i am mount rac1 /ocfs successfully but when i try to mount rac2 /ocfs i would not mount. It says mount.ocfs1 : Transport endpoint is not connected while mounting /dev/sdb1 on /ocfs i am not sure what is the error Call you help me . Thanks Bakhtiar
March 4th, 2012 at 11:46 am
I have solved the node2 mount problem Thanks Bakhtiar

Now i am facing problem that when i run dbca to create the asm disk it is not shown the my previously created 3 asmdisk that is /dev/raw/raw1 /dev/raw/raw2 /dev/raw/raw3 did i do any mistake.please help me. Thanks Bakthiar
March 8th, 2012 at 3:11 pm
Hi Kamran,
I have passed the asm disk problem. I have another problem now that is i have created two disk group as per your instruction that is dg1 from /dev/raw/raw1 and /dev/raw/raw2 and fg from /dev/raw/raw3 for that i see the one disk group is mounted and you say that the second node is mounted after second node is restared.So i am not understand how can i restart the second node. Please help me. Regard Bakhtiar
100. Khurram Says:
March 10th, 2012 at 11:15 pm
Hi Kamran, I am also having the same problem like above mention by Bahauddin Bakhtiar. plz help Regards, Khurram
101. Khurram Says:
Hi Kamran, During configure VIP on rac2, I am getting only eth0, not eth1 in the list. So what could be the reason?? Please reply, Thanks in advance, Regards, Khurram
102. Aswin Says:
March 13th, 2012 at 10:58 am
Hi Kamran, Really Thanks a lot for this document. It is useful and worth full documents
103. mourad Says:
March 21st, 2012 at 7:43 pm
hello, I have done all the statps till the mount -t ocfs2 -o datavolume,nointr /dev/sdb1 /ocfs, but after rebootin the systems I could not mount them again. please advice
104. agathian Says:
Hi Imran, Im also facing same problem. can you please help me , how do you solve it? thanks, agathian =================== M. Imran Says: ============================== June 12th, 2011 at 2:27 pm Dear Kamran, I have tried with different combination to shared disk in VM but no luck. May be my OS or system architecture not supported for that. Then I tried openfiler on VM and it is working great and my two node cluster is flying now. Your blog help me a lot. Will try your all other tutorials. Thank you very much. Regards, Imran
105. agathian Says:
found solution:
http://communities.vmware.com/message/1775219 thanks, agathian for example My host application crashed bringing down the guest VM machine. When i try to restart the VM machine it gave the ff. msg: Cannot open the disk. D:\Programs\Virtual Machine\* Reason: Failed to lock the file. SOLUTION: Delete any .LCK folders within the main VM folder. If this works, you should get your system back in an up-to-date state. Just like the above thread suggested. This works fine for meHope this helps anyone out there
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107. ahmed Says:
Dear kamran, thanks a lot for preparing the screenshots,which are verymuch helpful for beginners.if possible post some screen shots rac on 11g. thanks once again
108. Prashant Says:
I did till ocfs2console Now lets configure Oracle Cluster File System (OCFS2). For this, run ocfs2console with a root user from the first node. But when I invoke cluster configure node getting below error could not start cluster stack. This must be resolved before any OCFS2 filesystem can be mounted. My system output are using enterprise Linux my system architecure as # rpm -qf /boot/vmlinuz-`uname -r` queryformat %{ARCH}\n i686 # uname -r
2.6.9-78.0.0.0.0.1.ELhugemen Please help .

109. Ravi kumar Says:
hi this is very good . but i will suggest you something if you dont take it other way. this is for experience people who know everything regarding DBA. you left the preinstallation checks which is used by ./runcluvfy versbose command. u have to mention this command also and the packages list also. rest of the things are good. regards, Ravi Kumar
110. Balaji Says:
Hi Kamran, Very very useful blog Many thanks for the efforts. I am also facing the same issue as khurram. During configure VIP on rac2, I am getting only eth0, not eth1 in the list and I continued the installation at one step in oracle binary software I am not able to see the eth1 so binaries are installed only in rac1. Please help to sort it out. Thanks Balaji
111. ahmed Says:
hi, i have configured two node rac,as per your steps.but after establishing user equivalence between nodes it is asking password for second time also.so suggest me what might be the problem. i have removed thrice the .ssh directory and reconfigured the keys,but getting the same problem.
112. ahmed Says:
if i give command ssh rac2 date for second time it is asking password
please suggest me what to do. i m trying from last two weeks,but unable to troubleshoot.
If its still asking for the password, it means that you havent used ssh-keygen correctly. Check the specific step and try again
114. prashant salvi Says:
April 13th, 2012 at 10:18 am
I did till ocfs2console Now lets configure Oracle Cluster File System (OCFS2). For this, run ocfs2console with a root user from the first node. But when I invoke cluster configure node getting below error could not start cluster stack. This must be resolved before any OCFS2 filesystem can be mounted. My system output are using enterprise Linux my system architecure as # rpm -qf /boot/vmlinuz-`uname -r` queryformat %{ARCH}\n i686 # uname -r 2.6.9-78.0.0.0.0.1.ELhugemen Please help .
115. ahmed Says:
hi kamran, i have tried four times,also followed the same steps as shown in screenshots.it is asking password for the second time.Is there any alternate steps to be followed to overcome this problem. Thanks & Regards Ahmed
116. Taimur khan Says:
really a great and nice work, really great and step by step with images.
117. Taimur khan Says:
thanks for these steps for beginners like me.

118. ahmed Says:
hi Kamran, please suggest how to resolve the issue, i have tried four times,also followed the same steps as shown in screenshots.it is asking password for the second time.Is there any alternate steps to be followed to overcome this problem. Thanks & Regards Ahmed
119. Manju Says:
April 23rd, 2012 at 11:29 am
How many days did it take for you to learn and implement this rac and taking screen shots It is taking over a week for me with daily 7 to 8 hrs of effort I am installing oin vmware, solaris10 rac100gr2
April 23rd, 2012 at 11:30 am
It took a lot
121. sohan Says:
May 1st, 2012 at 1:06 pm
hi kamran Thanks for sharing such a good information.. i have one question. i am not able to create rac2.. when i try to switch rac1 to rac2 it renamed the first one(rac1)instead of creating rac2 pls help me how to get out from this problem.. thanks in advance.. sohan
122. shiva Says:
May 7th, 2012 at 10:11 am
Hi Kamran, thanks a lot and i want to learn RMAN can you send me RMAN releated documents
Regards Shiva
123. ahmed Says:
May 7th, 2012 at 2:27 pm
Hi, i have followed the below steps to configure user equivalence among two nodes.i.e rac1 and rac2,but failed to establish.i tried this steps four times unsucessfully,please help me in this regard,it would be a great help from you. Thanks and Regards Imran ahmed =============================================================== rac2-> mkdir ~/.ssh rac1-> ssh-keygen -t rsa Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (/export/home/oracle/.ssh/id_rsa): Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): Enter same passphrase again: Your identification has been saved in /export/home/oracle/.ssh/id_rsa. Your public key has been saved in /export/home/oracle/.ssh/id_rsa.pub. The key fingerprint is: 87:54:4f:92:ba:ed:7b:51:5d:1d:59:5b:f9:44:da:b6 oracle@rac1.mycorpdomain.com ============================================================== rac1-> ssh-keygen -t dsa Generating public/private dsa key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (/export/home/oracle/.ssh/id_dsa): Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): Enter same passphrase again: Your identification has been saved in /export/home/oracle/.ssh/id_dsa. Your public key has been saved in /export/home/oracle/.ssh/id_dsa.pub. The key fingerprint is: 31:76:96:e6:fc:b7:25:04:fd:70:42:04:1f:fc:9a:26 oracle@rac1.mycorpdomain.com ============================================================== On rac2, rac2-> mkdir ~/.ssh rac2-> ssh-keygen -t rsa Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (/export/home/oracle/.ssh/id_rsa): Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): Enter same passphrase again: Your identification has been saved in /export/home/oracle/.ssh/id_rsa. Your public key has been saved in /export/home/oracle/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.
The key fingerprint is: 29:5a:35:ac:0a:03:2c:38:22:3c:95:5d:68:aa:56:66 oracle@rac2.mycorpdomain.com =============================================================== ====== rac2-> ssh-keygen -t dsa Generating public/private dsa key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (/export/home/oracle/.ssh/id_dsa): Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): Enter same passphrase again: Your identification has been saved in /export/home/oracle/.ssh/id_dsa. Your public key has been saved in /export/home/oracle/.ssh/id_dsa.pub. The key fingerprint is: 4c:b2:5a:8d:56:0f:dc:7b:bc:e0:cd:3b:8e:b9:5c:7c oracle@rac2.mycorpdomain.com =============================================================== ======= On rac1, rac1-> cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys rac1-> cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys rac1-> ssh rac2 cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys The authenticity of host rac2 (192.168.2.132) cant be established. RSA key fingerprint is 63:d3:52:d4:4d:e2:cb:ac:8d:4a:66:9f:f1:ab:28:1f. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes Warning: Permanently added rac2,192.168.2.132 (RSA) to the list of known hosts. oracle@rac2s password: rac1-> ssh rac2 cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys oracle@rac2s password: rac1-> scp ~/.ssh/authorized_keys rac2:~/.ssh/authorized_keys oracle@rac2s password: authorized_keys 100% 1716 1.7KB/s 00:00
124. Ganesh Says:
May 14th, 2012 at 6:27 am
Super Document
125. ravikishore Says:
May 19th, 2012 at 12:34 pm
waiting for this awesome doc for many days..Thnks alot and need more exercises regarding non rac to rac, non asm to asm .
126. santosh kamana Says:
May 21st, 2012 at 9:55 pm
Hi kamran,
i am successfully login to rac1 node,but when i am trying to login another node rac2 its getting like this error : Cannot open the disk D:\sharedstorage\ocfs2disk.vmdk or one of the snapshot disks it depends on. Reason: Failed to lock the file. please help me to solve this problem
127. Srinias Says:
June 6th, 2012 at 12:53 pm
Hello Sir, Open it, switch to the Options tab, change its name to rac2 and start it in this Rac installation step, i have rename to Rac2 but it will replace rac1 to rac2. It will not create one more virtual disk means. only one will appear i.e rac2. how to create both rac1 and rac2 from your point of view. Pls explain sir. Thanking you.
June 6th, 2012 at 12:56 pm
You need to stop the rac1 server, copy the folder and then rename the second machine to rac2 and open it
129. Srinias Says:
Hello sir, Here im stop the rac1 then copy all the files to rac2 folder. Then went to the vmware and options tab its rename to rac2 and opened. But its replace the rac1 to rac2 server. Not created the both servers means rac1 and rac2. I hope ur understand the situation pls explain clearly sir. How to get rac1 and rac2 servers. Thanking you.
130. usha Says:
June 18th, 2012 at 6:40 am
o2cb_ctl: Unable to access cluster service while creating node Could not add node rac1 how to add node with ocfs2console tool
131.
Nikil Says:
July 25th, 2012 at 4:35 pm
Hi Kamran Good morning I read your blog its really helpful. Today I am going to setup RAC on my 8gb RAM machine. As you said in the begining that OEL 5 is not supportive. So,I am going to download OEL4. Can you confirm any specific update with OEL 4. I see on edelivery website: OEL 4 Update 4, 5 , 6,7 and 8. Do I need to be specific with Update? Your response will be highly appreciated. Thanks
132. muneer Says:
July 27th, 2012 at 7:09 pm
Dear Kamran, Thanks for the excellent post. I have one doubt though. We created three ASM disks named VOL1, VOL2, VOL3. However, in later installation, they were never used and we had to specify the name of the raw disk partitions instead. Where then the VOL1, VOL2 and VOL3 ASM disks are being used which we created ? Thanks.
133. sharmila Says:
July 28th, 2012 at 1:17 am
Hi Kamran, I really appreciate your effort in creating a website and uploading all tutorials .It really motivates & help us a lot when we are stuck up in the middle of something I have a question for you. Is it possible to do diaster recovery on the same virtual machine OEL11gR2 . Awaiting your reply. Sharmi
134.
Kamran Agayev A. Says:
Hi Sharmila, thanks for the feedback Sure its possible to perform a disaster recovery on the same machine
You can try without update

136. sarathi Says:
useful article
137. Praveen k Says:
October 2nd, 2012 at 2:10 am
Thanks a lotfriend.. I have sucessfully installed 10gRAC on OEL4U6.

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139. Lachhman Says:
October 15th, 2012 at 10:09 am
Excellent work kamran Can u please tell except of OEL4 Which Redhat release is best of these steps without any rpm packages Issue.
140. narendranath reddy Says:
Hi Kamran, I followed your online step by step rac installation guide to install rac 10g on my pc. after configuration of one vm machine (RAC1) , i copied all the files from rac1 location to rac2 location. When i open the rac2 virtual machine it is opened, but my rac1 machine is not available. As of now only one virtual machine is confiugered, If i want to configure rac2 along with
rac1 vm machines please suggest me how to configure both need to appear on my vmware player. Thanks and regards, Narendra
Hi Narendranath Could you please explain what do you mean with my first vmware machine is not available Just try to open it, it must be available. Do you get any error?
You can use Red Hat Linux as well (or CentOS)

143. Junaid Khan Says:
December 2nd, 2012 at 6:40 am
Really good docs Kamran

144. Aswin Says:
Hi Kamran, Really this document is helpful me.do you have any RAC 11gr2 grid infrastructure installation guide using vmware. If you have any simple method this like please share us
December 24th, 2012 at 6:15 am
Hi Aswin Im currently working on it and will post it soon Cheers

146. Gary Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 10:48 am
Hi Kamran, Nice blog! I am new to virtualization and we are currently implementing it.
We have an Oracle 10g on RHEL 4. Oracle is configured on RAC with ASM. The datafiles are stored on an EMC storage. Our problem is that, when we tried to clone the Database (RAC) servers, we cant completely copy all the volumes / files from the EMC. Thus, we cant bring up the virtualize copy of the database. Any advice you can give in this regard?
Hi Gary What do you mean we cant completely copy? Do you get any error?
148. ajay Says:
Hi Kamran, Thank you so much for all your efforts, I followed all the steps mentioned by you, but when I run ocfs2console as a root user from first node, and click on the cluster menu and select configure nodes, an error is thrown. Also when I start the rac1 or rac2 I get a message that clustering is not supported. I am using VMware 7 version for creating the VM and OEL5. Also the bridge networking is not working. Your suggestions are highly appreciated. Thank you
149. Gary Says:
Hi Kamran, We are using VMWARE 5.1 to clone the physical servers having an Oracle RAC (with ASM). Oracle version is 10.2.0.4.0 using RHEL 4.5. The datafiles are on an EMC storage. Basically, we want to migrate from a physical to a virtual environment. We did not get any error after running the VMWARE to clone the two RAC servers. However, looking at the cloned RAC servers, they dont have some of the volumes of the EMC particularly those that was supposed to be used by the Oracle datafiles. Thus, when we cant bring up the Oracle database, it is looking for the EMC path where the data are stored. One server that also have an Oracle database (same Oracle and RHEL versions) but is not on RAC and no ASM was successfully cloned and put into service. We are looking at re-installing the whole thing (basically, following whats on this blog) on the virtual environment but if you have some inputs on how we can clone the physical servers, Ill really appreciate it.
150.
sunny Says:
Hi Kamran, Firstly Thanks alot for porviding wonderful info. and even i am getting new things over core dba concepts like clustering and asm with rac. I followed your rac installation document as u have mentioned. But when i started dbca to configure asm in rac1 it is unable to start asm instance on node2 instead of starting asm2 instance on node2 it is showing following errors: PRKS-1009 Failed to start ASM instance +ASM2 on node rac2[PRKS-1011 Failed to check the status of ASM instance "+ASM2" on node rac2 [CRS-0210: colud not find resource ora.rac2.ASM2.asm.] but it is starting the asm instance on node1 and pfile (init+ASM2.ora) is also created in node2 can i omit the step and continue to go head or else do i need to check the cluster verfication what i need to do I strucked up with this problem Kindly do the need ful Thanks & Regards Sunny
You have to make sure that ASM on the second node is up. Check necessary log files
152. Gaurav Vashist Says:
I have Sucessfully Installed Oracle 10g R2 RAC on VMware on OEL 4.8 Host OS : Win 7 VMware Workstation 9.0 Intel i3 , 3GB RAM . Thanks Kamran
Well Done!
February 5th, 2013 at 5:43 am
I am stop to configuration to the following steps . Please help me As you see, the state of disk group shows that its not mounted on the second node. For this, we need to restart the second node. Click on Finish and restart the second node. After it starts, login with root user and call dbca from the first node again. Here how do is restart the second node. Please help me.
155. kashif Says:
Ya Hoooooooooooooooooooo Nice Demo Mr Kamran

I have Done It Rac
Well done! Congratulations!

157. umasrinivas Says:
Hi Kamran, I am a Production DBA with exp 3 years and the above slides given me some idea about RAC setup. Thank for your meterial and good work.
Hi Srinavas Thanks for the feedback and Im glad to be helpful!

Hi Kashif Thats great! Congratulations!
160.
Khaled Says:
Hi Karman , can I use the ubunto 12.10 and OLE 5 but i have some confused OLE5 is the oracle for linux 64bit
161. ahamediss Says:
March 12th, 2013 at 10:28 am
HI Kamran Agayev Awesome its a Great hard work. how to Implement same setup Window server 2003 32 bit Environment using Oracle VM virtual Box. Please advise.
162. Mohammed.Ateeq Says:
Hi Kamran, I have tried to setup rac using your tutorial. I always get stuck at this point: As you see, the state of disk group shows that its not mounted on the second node. For this, we need to restart the second node. Click on Finish and restart the second node. After it starts, login with root user and call dbca from the first node again. I checked all the services on both nodes and they are online. After restarting the second node, i run the dbca command from oracle user and still the diskgroup is not mounted on second node. Please let me know what might be the error? I havent lost the hope and still wanna try to finish this tutorial. Eagerly waiting for the reply. Best Regards,
163. narendranath reddy Says:
Hi Kamaran, I have created the shared cluster file system using ocfs2 following your document. but i didnt found the created file on rac2 node. steps i have done for testing 1)created the /ocfs/ocr shared file system using ocfs2 on both nodes
2) change the permission to oracle 3) cd to /ocfs/ocr 4) touch test 5) when i check the same test file on the rac2 node it is not available. Please let me know how to resolve this issue. Regards, Narendra
164. Muhammad Atif Says:
Hi Kamran thanks but i have some problem that i use to present it as a final year project but i am little bit confuse about abstract. What if you help me writing it abstract followed in FYP report. Ill be very thankful to you for this favor.
165. Ateeq Says:
Follow the above link. I succeeded in first attempt. He followed some steps of kamran but also contains video tutorial. http://www.dbatalent.com/index.php/technical-articles/77-oracle-rac/installations/127installing-oracle-10gr2-rac-on-oel-4-8
166. Srinivas Says:
April 2nd, 2013 at 10:31 am
Hi kamran, It was really excellant post from you .!!! thank you for the patience while uploading screens I am expecting 11g rac screens from you Thanks.!!! Regards, Srinivas
June 13th, 2013 at 5:44 am
Hi Muhammad What are you going to present and what kind of help do you need?
168.
Kamran Agayev A. Says:
June 13th, 2013 at 5:51 am
Hi I dont have my own step by step guide for Windows RAC installation, but you can get them from http://www.oracle-base.com
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As we know, if you want to setup Oracle Server especially for testing purpose it would be better to setup it on your virtual

3. Setup will open Welcome Screen

Click on Next button and choose Typical option

Then select Use bridged networking option and click Next.

Installing CentOS on VMware Step by Step

Select your language of installation and click Next

In this step, just let it remain selected and click next

From this screen, select your region and click Next

After the installation is completed, click Reboot button to reboot your OS

For testing purpose, it would be good to disable SELinux too

Then keeping Kdump disabled, click Forward

Then Click Finish and the system will reboot

Your Centos is ready to use! Congratulations.

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Step by Step installing Oracle 10g RAC on VMware

Select Typical and click Next

Select Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and Click Next

Select bridged network and click next

Select Hard Disk and click Next

Select Create a new virtual disk and click Next

Select SCSI and check Independent->Persistent and click Next

Add new Ethernet device

Change the network connection to Host-only

Start the virtual machine

Select installation language and click next

Select appropriate keyboard and click next

Select Server as the installation type and click Next

Click Yes for all warnings and click Next

Double click in the first drive /dev/sda

Disable Firewall and SELinux and click Next

Select Time-Zone and Click Next

Click Next to start the installation

After installation completed the machine restarts. Click Next

Agree with license and click Next

Set the date and time and click Next

Set the display and click Next

You dont need to create a user so click Next

Click Next and finish the installation

oracle soft nofile 1024 oracle hard nofile 65536[/code]

Change /etc/pam.d/login file and add the following line:

[code]session required /lib/security/pam_limits.so[/code]

[code]rpm Uvh libaio-0.3.105-2.i386.rpm rpm Uvh openmotif21-2.1.30-11.RHEL4.6.i386.rpm[/code]

Change /etc/sysctl.conf file and add the following lines:

[code]kernel.shmall kernel.shmmax kernel.shmmni kernel.sem fs.file-max

= 2097152 = 2147483648 = 4096 = 250 32000 100 128 = 65536

192.168.2.31 10.10.10.31 192.168.2.132 192.168.2.32 10.10.10.32

rac1-priv.test.az rac1-priv rac2.test.az rac2-vip.test.az rac2 rac2-vip

192.168.2.131 7777 rac2 192.168.2.132 7777

and pass the following parameters y ocfs2 61

Provide the folder for the Inventory and click Next

Change the CRS folder to /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/crs_1 and click Next

Virtual Host Name : rac2-vip.test.az

Now click Install button to start the clusterware installation

and run the ./vipca to create and configure VIP

Select the first Ethernet device and Click Next

Click Finish to start the installation

Click Exit button to exit the installation of an Oracle Clusterware

FILE_NAME size --------------------------------------------- ---------+DG1/devdb/datafile/users.259.747087235 +DG1/devdb/datafile/sysaux.257.747087221 +DG1/devdb/datafile/undotbs1.258.747087233 +DG1/devdb/datafile/system.256.747087209 +DG1/devdb/datafile/undotbs2.264.747088231 SQL>