Re: Talking about Oracle Lab Setup - which VM provider do you prefer?

From: Don Seiler <don_at_seiler.us>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 13:31:04 -0600
Message-ID: <CAHJZqBDMCg92rzpwt4mdmhR4AaHfBXNnSxx5Y=OeX19ryw1=5g_at_mail.gmail.com>

Might not be quite what you were looking for, but here's a great blog post by Steve Karam on building a nice VM training machine based on VMWare's vSphere/ESXi. I've got it bookmarked and look at it once in a while to daydream.

http://www.oraclealchemist.com/news/make-your-own-traininglab-environment-for-900/

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 12:50 PM, John Piwowar <jpiwowar_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Yury Velikanov was able to get DualServer to do the necessary DNS "fake
> out" for 12c RAC; presumably the principles are the same for 11gR2. Check
> slides 39-42 of this deck:
> http://www.slideshare.net/yvelikanov/oracle-12c-rac-on-your-laptop-step-by-step-implementation-guide-10-23587496
>
> I'm a Mac+dnsmasq guy myself, so I can't comment on the efficacy of the
> instructions, but Yury's generally a very thorough dude. :)
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Chris Taylor <
> christopherdtaylor1994_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> For a personal lab setup, do you need round robin? The load is going to
>> be very small so I'm not sure if I would need it.
>>
>> Yep, it doesn't look like Dual DHCP DNS Server does round robin.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> If you are referring to DualServer, that will not work properly for RAC
>>> - it does not do round robin.
>>>
>>> I am running dnsmasq for DNS as it does do round robin.
>>>
>>> Jared Still
>>> Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
>>> Sr Oracle DBA at Pythian
>>> Pythian Blog http://www.pythian.com/blog/author/still/
>>> Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com
>>> Home Page: http://jaredstill.com
>>>
>>
>>
>

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