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Re: RAC on VMWARE

From: Mark Strickland <strickland.mark_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 13:40:42 -0700
Message-ID: <90ad14210705041340o4885685fw31b2cc7911cb07c0@mail.gmail.com>


Robert, I haven't a clue about what you're seeing but, using Vincent Chan's cookbook and Oracle's linux distribution, I was able to successfully create a two-node 10gR2 RAC cluster in VMWARE on Windows. If you haven't taken a look at what Vincent wrote up, it might be useful in your troubleshooting. Vincent's write-up is here:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/chan-ubl-vmware.html

Regards,
Mark Strickland

On 5/4/07, Robert Freeman <robertgfreeman_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Trying to install RAC on VMWARE (Win host, 2 RH Ent
> Linux as the guest OS that will run RAC).
>
> I've got both Linux servers up, networked, etc.
> Created the raw OCR and Voting disks to be shared.
>
> Started the clusterware install, all goes grant.
>
> It prompts me to run root.sh. I do. Root.sh pauses at
> the following:
>
> Startup will be queued to init within 30 seconds.
>
> after some digging I find the following error in a log
> file:
>
> Oracle Cluster Registry initialization failed with
> invalid format: PROC-22: The OCR backend has an
> invalid format.
>
> And it just sits.... and sits.... and sits....
>
> hellllo...
>
> RF
>
>
> Robert G. Freeman
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