Installation Of Grid Structure For Linux

Install the Grid Infrastructure

Make sure both virtual machines are started, then login to "ol6-112-rac1" as the oracle user and start the Oracle installer.

$ cd /host/software/oracle/11gR2/11.2.0.3.0/linux64_grid

$ ./runInstaller

Select the "Skip software updates" option, then click the "Next" button.

Installation Of Linux RAC.

Oracle Linux 6 installation as you would for a basic server. A general pictorial guide to the installation can be found here. More specifically, it should be a server installation with a minimum of 4G+ swap, firewall and SELinux disabled and the following package groups installed:

Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.3.0) RAC On Oracle Linux 6.1 Using VirtualBox

Introduction

One of the large-scale obstacles stopping persons from setting up check RAC environments is the obligation for distributed storage. In a output natural environment, distributed storage is often supplied by a SAN or high-end NAS apparatus, but both of these choices are very costly when all you desire to manage is get some know-how establishing and utilising RAC. A lower alternate is to use a FireWire computer disk enclosure to permit two appliances to get access to the identical disk(s), but that still charges cash and needs two servers. A third choice is to use virtualization to phony the distributed storage.
Using VirtualBox you can run multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) on a lone server, permitting you to run both RAC nodes on a lone machine. In additon, it permits you to set up distributed virtual computer disks, overwhelming the obstacle of costly distributed storage.
Before you launch into this setting up, here are a couple of things to consider.