Creating your own 10g RAC cluster at home using virtualbox and SAN targets (using openfiler + with/without USB hard disk)

Posted on May 1, 2008 by Gaurav Verma

Preface
After playing around with some open source technologies like virtualbox and openfiler, we are finally at a point when it is possible to create your own network lab of Oracle 10gR2 RAC cluster and ASM database using iscsi targets in an external hard disk drive. The last time I checked, USB 2.0 hard disk drives [...]

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Case Study: How to discover iscsi targets with linux-iscsi initiator package — Suse linux 9 (scsi Initiator) and openfiler (scsi target)

Posted on April 25, 2008 by Gaurav Verma

Birds eye view of the end configuration…
Here is the bird’s eye view of the end configuration that we will achieve at the end of this article:
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My Grumblings with openfiler..
Those of you who have started experimented with openfiler may have started liking its features already. One of the biggest concerns that [...]

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