Installation Gotchas for Oracle Linux, Oracle RAC 10gR2 and Vmware ESX 3.0.1 | Linux Today

Installation Gotchas for Oracle Linux, Oracle RAC 10gR2 and Vmware ESX 3.0.1

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 18, 2007

“As I said on my blog, I have been trying to setup Oracle Linux
10gR2 RAC on Oracle Enterprise Linux 4.4 with VMware ESX 3.0.1 as
our chosen platform for Virtualization. This article mentions
several issues that we will try to cover all in one go. If that’s
not possible, we’ll finish it up in the next article…”

Is Oracle Enterprise Linux installation all smooth sailing?

“Not really. After carefully selecting all of the possible
options, (you do know that several binaries like ASM and OCFS come
along with the Oracle Linux), while going through the installation
I still came across several anomalies on some rpms….”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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