On Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:30:35 +0000, Mladen Gogala wrote:
Well, I was finally successful. I created a virtual machine with 1.7GB of
memory, installed OEL 6.1 and RAC 11.2.0.3. There wasn't enough memory
for ASM so I used OCFS2

oracle@rac1 dbhome1]$ srvctl status database -d rac
Instance rac1 is running on node rac1
[oracle@rac1 dbhome1]$ cat /etc/oracle-release
Oracle Linux Server release 6.1

[oracle@rac1 dbhome1]$ $GRID_HOME/bin/crsctl stat res -l
NAME=ora.LISTENER.lsnr
TYPE=ora.listener.type
CARDINALITY_ID=rac1
DEGREE_ID=1
TARGET=ONLINE
STATE=ONLINE on rac1

NAME=ora.LISTENER_SCAN1.lsnr
TYPE=ora.scan_listener.type
CARDINALITY_ID=1
DEGREE_ID=1
TARGET=ONLINE
STATE=ONLINE on rac1

NAME=ora.asm
TYPE=ora.asm.type
CARDINALITY_ID=rac1
DEGREE_ID=1
TARGET=OFFLINE
STATE=OFFLINE

NAME=ora.cvu
TYPE=ora.cvu.type
CARDINALITY_ID=1
DEGREE_ID=1
TARGET=ONLINE
STATE=ONLINE on rac1

NAME=ora.gsd
TYPE=ora.gsd.type
CARDINALITY_ID=rac1
DEGREE_ID=1
TARGET=OFFLINE
STATE=OFFLINE

NAME=ora.net1.network
TYPE=ora.network.type
CARDINALITY_ID=rac1
DEGREE_ID=1
TARGET=ONLINE
STATE=ONLINE on rac1

NAME=ora.oc4j
TYPE=ora.oc4j.type
CARDINALITY_ID=1
DEGREE_ID=1
TARGET=ONLINE
STATE=ONLINE on rac1

NAME=ora.ons
TYPE=ora.ons.type
CARDINALITY_ID=rac1
DEGREE_ID=1
TARGET=ONLINE
STATE=ONLINE on rac1

NAME=ora.rac.db
TYPE=ora.database.type
CARDINALITY_ID=1
DEGREE_ID=1
TARGET=ONLINE
STATE=ONLINE on rac1

NAME=ora.rac1.vip
TYPE=ora.cluster_vip_net1.type
CARDINALITY_ID=1
DEGREE_ID=1
TARGET=ONLINE
STATE=ONLINE on rac1

NAME=ora.scan1.vip
TYPE=ora.scan_vip.type
CARDINALITY_ID=1
DEGREE_ID=1
TARGET=ONLINE
STATE=ONLINE on rac1

[oracle@rac1 dbhome1]$

I know that OEL 6.1 is unsupported but there were no problems with the
installation. The only problem I've had is with the inadequate hardware
which has limited my installation options.

[oracle@rac1 dbhome1]$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1737692 1321988 415704 0 13952 667216
-/+ buffers/cache: 640820 1096872
Swap: 4161528 302012 3859516
[oracle@rac1 dbhome1]$

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