Re: Moving Oracle RAC VMs from Linux to Windows

Thanks Thomas.

Unfortunately, this is for a Linux host. I have gone through this and also the updated article which describes OLE 6.3.

My issue is porting the "RAC Virtual Boxes" from Linux to Windows. How do we "re-attach" the existing Linux ASM virtual disks to Windows?

Best Wishes,
Anand

On 24 April 2017 at 13:23, Thomas Roach <troach_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> See if these commands will work on Windows. They should?
>
> https://oracle-base.com/articles/11g/oracle-db-11gr2-
> rac-installation-on-oel5-using-virtualbox#create_shared_disks
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Apr 24, 2017, at 3:29 AM, Anand Rao <panandrao_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have setup an Oracle 11g R2 RAC on two OLE 6.3 nodes using VirtualBox
> 5.1. The host OS is OLE 7.1 and the test setup was just using a single hard
> disk.
>
> Managed to export the VMs from OLE 7.1 and import them to my laptop which
> runs Windows 10.
>
> After some changes to the settings, the OS did boot but CRS failed which i
> think is due to the ASM disks. Checked the CRS logs, etc. and it was indeed
> the "missing "voting disks.
>
> On my Linux Host (OLE 7.1), the ASM disks were /dev/asm-disk1 and so on.
> On Windows they are named ASM-disk1.vmdk and so on.
>
> I did try to remove and add shareable storage in VirtualBox on Windows but
> i think something is missing here. The shareable storage from Windows is
> not being pickup by the OLE 6.3 Virtual Host.
>
> Does anybody know how to make these "virtual ASM disks" shareable so that
> Linux can see it? Is there a guide i can follow to setup a Windows based VM
> for Oracle 11g RAC?
>
> I am just hoping that I can reuse the whole setup as it is.
>
> Thanks,
> Anand
>
>

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