Posted by Gwen Shapira on Jan 10, 2011
It started out innocently enough: Two node RAC cluster on two Linux RHEL5 with Netapp NFS used as shared filesystem for all shared files. My favorite OS and storage, so I felt confident that clusterware installation will be as smooth as it usually is. I told the customer that this can be done in 3 hours.
What I didn’t take into account is that this was my first 11gR2 installation, and that much have changed since 11gR1. As things turned out, it took over 20 hours of my time and a lot of help from colleagues and even former colleagues before we had a successful installation.
The time it takes you to read this blog post (and any other on this subject) is likely to be time well spent.
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Posted by Alex Gorbachev on Mar 25, 2009
This topic has been raised again and again and quite a few people have asked me how to configure RAC on VMware Fusions on Mac. This warrants a blog post, especially, that Mac is definitely the way to go for an Oracle DBA — a Unix desktop OS that just works. What can be better? Sorry, I digress without even starting!
Before I go any further, I should say that this is not a complete guide on the Oracle RAC install with VMware Fusion but just the hints on setting up shared storage for Oracle RAC using Mac as host for VMWare Fusion virtual machines (VM’s). The reader is assumed to understand how to setup Oracle RAC and has general understanding of VMware itself. There are plenty of guides on the Internet on how to setup Oracle RAC including VMware but they usually refer to VMware Server on Linux or Windows. Please note that I’m writing it largely by memory so if you hit any issue — please leave a comment.
Disclaimers are over — moving on!
The root of the problem is that VMware Fusion doesn’t support shared disks unlike VMware Server on Windows and Linux. If you try to update the .vmx file manually to enable shared disk, you get the error message “Clustering is not supported for VMware Fusion – this setting will be ignored”. Fear not — you are running the best desktop OS anyway! ;-)
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