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

The following images show the hardware setup used for setting up 11gR2 RAC on Solaris 10. The comments on the disk setup are typed in the image itself.

I have assigned 1 CPU and 2GB RAM to each of the VM nodes. This version of 11gR2 requires this much of memory. So do not try to install it if you do not meet hardware requirements. Also, preferrably, as in my case, the disks are physically separate. Node 1, Node 2 and shared disks are all on separate physical disks.

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This section describes how to

• Install VMWare
• Login to VMWare Server
• Create a datastore for Virtual Machine

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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

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In this section, you will

• Mount Solaris DVD on Virtual Drive
• Boot and install Solaris 10 on VMWare

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This section describes various steps in configuring the Operating System.
Once you have booted your server, and logged in as root, perform the following tasks

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This section describes cloning node1 to node2 and configuring node2. The section describes

• Backup node 1
• Create datastore for second node
• Copy node 1 to node 2
• Import Virtual Machine
• Configure Node 2
• Edit VM Config file

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In this phase we will …..

• Upload binaries to stage folder
• Setup user equivalance
• Run Cluvfy for CRS Setup

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On successful completion of cluster verification utility, you can proceed with installation of Oracle Clusterware. This section has the screenshots of clusterware installation including running the scripts as root from both nodes. DO NOT RUN these scripts parallely, run them on one node and then the other on completion of the script on the first node.

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With CRS successfully installed and running, we can proceed with installation of Oracle RAC binaries and configure a RAC database. In this section we will see the screenshots for Oracle RAC database creation.

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