This section describes the following tasks

• Create Virtual Machine
• Add network cards
• Create new datastore for shared disks
• Add disks for ACFS, Binary Homes and Stage areas

Create Virtual Machine

Once VMWARE SERVER is installed, we can create a virtual machine and configure it. Here, we will choose the OS type, number of CPUs, Memory, network, disks, etc for the virtual machine. The following images are screen shots of actual configuration

Choose Location - Datastore

Choose Operating System

Allocate Memory And CPU

Create Virtual Disk 01

Create Virtual Disk 02

Add Network Adapter 01

Add Network Adapter 02

Choose CD/DVD Drive 01

Choose CD/DVD Drive 02

Choose Floppy Drive - Skip this

Add USB Controller 01

Add USB Controller 02

Confirm and Finish

Add Network adapters

Add 1 more network adapter (for private network, VIP will be running virtually on the Public interface), by clicking the Add Hardware link on VMWare homepage for this Virtual Machine

Add Network Card

Create shared datastore

Create a new datastore to store VM Shared files. Call this VMShared datastore.

VMShared Datastore

Add disks for ACFS, Binary Homes and Stage areas

With Oracle 11gR2, Oracle clusterware and ASM now are installed into the Same Oracle Home, and is now called the grid infrastructure install.
Raw devices are no longer supported for use for anything for new installs.

OCR and Voting disk can now be stored in ASM, or a certified cluster file system.

The redundancy level of your ASM diskgroup (That you choose to place voting disk on) determines the number of voting disks you can have.
You can place

• Only One voting disk on an ASM diskgroup configured as external redundancy
• Only Three voting disks on an ASM diskgroup configured as normal redundancy
• Only Five voting disks on an ASM diskgroup configured as high redundancy

Now add 3 disks of 1GB each for ASM disks (which will host the voting disks and OCR disks). Choose the VMShared datastore for these disks. Here, we first need to create a new data store for this location

Create ASM Disk 01

Create ASM Disk 02

Create ASM Disk 03

Your VM will look like this – 4 hard disks and 3 network cards

VM Final