Welcome to a multi part series on 11gR2 RAC – Solaris x86-64bit. The intended audience for this series are DBAs who wish to learn new features of 11gR2 hands on by setting up RAC in their environment. They could use this setup before they do an actual implementation on SPARC based setup.

I assume that you have read some basic documentation on Oracle 11gR2 and understand that it is different from earlier releases of Oracle RAC.

This series is for demonstration purposes only and not intended to be used as a guide for implementation. This installation was done in a test environment.

The following are the parts in the series

• Part 1 – Oracle 11gR2 RAC Solaris 10 – Introduction
• Part 2 – Oracle 11gR2 RAC Solaris 10 – Hardware Setup
• Part 3 – Oracle 11gR2 RAC Solaris 10 – VMWare Installation
• Part 4 – Oracle 11gR2 RAC Solaris 10 – Virtual Machine Setup & Configuration
• Part 5 – Oracle 11gR2 RAC Solaris 10 – Install Solaris 10 OS
• Part 6 – Oracle 11gR2 RAC Solaris 10 – Configure OS
• Part 7 – Oracle 11gR2 RAC Solaris 10 – Clone and configure second node
• Part 8 – Oracle 11gR2 RAC Solaris 10 – Prepare for CRS installation
• Part 9 – Oracle 11gR2 RAC Solaris 10 – CRS Installation
• Part 10 – Oracle 11gR2 RAC Solaris 10 – Installation and configuration of RAC database