Preparation of Oracle 19c RAC Installation
Oracle Linux 7.5 64Bit Installation on VirtualBox 6
RAC Node 1: OS Preparation
Software Required:
Click on VirtualBox icon on Desktop
To Creating New Virtual Machine:
To create a new virtual machine, you need to start VirtualBox. The Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager is displayed,
as shown below
In the toolbar, click the New button. The Create Virtual Machine wizard is displayed in a new window. The
wizard enables you to configure the basic details of the virtual machine.
Provide the Virtual Machine Name and Type of OS:
Enter a descriptive name for the virtual machine in the Name field and select the operating system and version
that you are going to install from the drop-down lists, as shown in figure.
Provide Memory to VM:
On the Memory Size step, you can select 8GB recommended value for Oracle 19c RAC or minimum value 4GB.
This is the amount of host memory (RAM) that VirtualBox assigns to the virtual machine when it runs.
Provide Hard Disk to VM:
On the Hard Drive step, ensure Create a virtual hard drive now is selected.
Hard Disk File Type:
Oracle VM VirtualBox supports the following types of disk image files:
VDI. Normally, Oracle VM VirtualBox uses its own container format for guest hard disks. This is called a Virtual
Disk Image (VDI) file. This format is used when you create a new virtual machine with a new disk.
VMDK. Oracle VM VirtualBox also fully supports the popular and open VMDK container format that is used by
many other virtualization products, such as VMware.
VHD. Oracle VM VirtualBox also fully supports the VHD format used by Microsoft.
There are two options for creating a disk image: fixed-size or dynamically allocated.
Fixed-size. If you create a fixed-size image, an image file will be created on your host system which has roughly
the same size as the virtual disk's capacity. So, for a 10 GB disk, you will have a 10 GB file.
Dynamically allocated. For more flexible storage management, use a dynamically allocated image. This will
initially be very small and not occupy any space for unused virtual disk sectors, but will grow every time a disk
sector is written to for the first time, until the drive reaches the maximum capacity chosen when the drive was
created.
Go to Settings:
Go to Storage:
Select Oracle Linux 7.5 ISO Image:
Network:
We are going to use all four Adapters:
Adapter 1: Is used for Internet Connection So selected “NAT”.
Adapter 2: is used for RAC PUBLIC IP, So selected “Internal Network”.
Adapter 3: is used for RAC VIP IP, So selected “Internal Network”. Same subnet of Public IP.
Adapter 4: is used for RAC PRIVATE IP, So selected “Host-only Adapter”.
Adapter 1: For INTERNET
Adapter 2: For RAC PUBLIC IP
Adapter 3: For RAC VIP
Adapter 4: For RAC PRIVATE IP & To connecting with Hosts for Putty/MobaXterm Sessions.
Proceed with OS Installation:
Select prefer language and proceed:
Software Selection:
Partition the attached HDD:
Creating “root /”, swap, /boot,/home and /u01 (For ORACLE_HOME & GRID_HOME) partitions.
We have created FS of below size:
/ : 20GB
swap : 8GB
/home : 5GB
/boot : 2GB
/u01: 45GB
Network:
Below is the network configuration details:
#PUBLIC IP
[Link] [Link] dbatrainings01
[Link] [Link] dbatrainings02
#VIP
[Link] [Link] dbatrainings01-vip
[Link] [Link] dbatrainings02-vip
#PRIVATE IP
[Link] [Link] dbatrainings01-priv
[Link] [Link] dbatrainings02-priv
#SCAN-IP
[Link] [Link] dbatrainings-scan
[Link] [Link] dbatrainings-scan
[Link] [Link] dbatrainings-scan
Ethernet (enp0s3) for Internet Connection:
Not required to do any additional setting for this ethernet. Just enable the adapter by pushing ON button.
Just TICK to start automatically
Ethernet (enp0s8) for PUBLIC IP for RAC Setup:
Ethernet (enp0s9) for VIP for RAC Setup:
Ethernet (enp0s10) for PRIVATE IP for RAC Setup and establish connection with host to use putty and Mobaxterm
Set ROOT user password and Create dbatrainings user.
Installation Progress Screen:
After Reboot:
RAC Node 1 is ready. Now I am going to shutdown this machine and cloning this machine for RAC Node 2.
Preparing RAC Node-2:
Both machines are ready.
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