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4 node 4way SMP Oracle RAC 10g R2 on ESX 3.0.1



Soon I'll be writing an article (on our continuing RAC installation series at Jupitermedia Inc) on some basics installations "watch-out" stuff like:

  • Extending a VMFS3 VMDK file on ESX
  • Extending the same partition inside a Linux guest OS (here our Oracle Enterprise Linux)
  • Installation of several packages for backward compatibility
  • Running Cluvfy.sh for checking the readiness
  • Linux commands for swap
  • More stuff for the needy DBA
Expect this article to be published by end March this year. So if you want your DBAs to have a test and development environment, you have so gotta watch this. Someday you'll be needing it!
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