Oracle RAC Test on VMWare Linux + openfiler SAN/NAS storage

For people who don't want to spend much money on SAN storage just for the purpose of testing Oracle RAC feature.
One of the option you can do is installing VMWare on your computer and set up 2 Linux virtual servers on it. You will also need another virtual server to set up as openfiler to act as SAN storage. The hardware requirement you need to have are 3 GB of memory, 50 GB of hard disk (excluding your host OS space).
For more information on how to do this you can drop in to http://www.oracledba.ca/ there are step by step + image guide for you.

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Runing Oracle on Linux + VMWare

There are many website talked about oracle installation on Linux which is running on VMWare.
There are many comments I come across mentioned that this must be for the testing or developing purpose only.

I'd myself rather think differently. If you have computer with huge enough resources you can set it up as your virtual servers and running on your network along with physical servers. It depend of the art of tuning your VMWare , Linux, Oracle, with new oracle improved functionality it could be easier to manage. I myself, used to train my 10+ clients and had them connected to my laptop (at the time 2GB Memory), runing VMWare with Linux and Oracle installed, it worked just fine.

The thing is, it's on the art of put the right tools/machines for the right task. With well configuration of your Oracle, VMWare, Linux plus your host resources, your virtual servers will work like a charm.

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