Installing RAC on RHL 5 on vmware server of windows xp

Installing RAC on RHL 5 on vmware server of windows xp
try at home - by aravind babu G - Page1
on ur windows xp
Create 4 partitions
1. for installating vmware server software
2. for VD
3. for OCR
4. for ASM

After installing vmware software a default datastore will be created in the same location so it is important to create first partion bit big in size atleast to store two nodes into it
lets say 30G
remember u need firefox 3x for vmware browser or IE8.
u need DNS set properly while creating network on host machine otherwise virtual remote console will give an error
u need to create loopback adapter on host machine if u r on a standalone Pc at ur home

second partition is for Voting Disk I am creating some 5G as a partition and adding the same thru add hardware option to add Hard disk after adding the same to datastore
third partition for OCR same as above
fourth partition for ASM lets make it some 10G
do the same for ocr,asm partitions also like add to datastore and add the hard disk then
Install RH Linux 5 on both the nodes
Once installation  of two nodes called as node1 and node2(for example) is successfull then check few things like
whether U r able to ping each other nodes IP address (suggested to use NAT while creating VM Machine)
Once the above is done
try adding one more NIC as it requires minimum two NICs on each node for RAC
I am giving first eth0 as 192.168.1.1
second one with 192.168.100.1 on node1
and the gateways same as IP address and netmask 255.255.255.0
in the same way I am giving eth0 to 192.168.1.2 and eth1 to 192.168.100.2 in node2 and the gatways same as ip address
remember when u r adding hard disk to node1 u r using create new virtual disk whereas when u r adding hard disk to node2 u need to use use an existing virtual disk and select the same vmdk file which u have created for node1
then u need to add few options to configuration files (vmx) of each node.
disk.locking = "FALSE"
diskLib.dataCacheMaxSize = "0"
diskLib.dataCacheMaxReadAheadSize = "0"
diskLib.dataCacheMinReadAheadSize = "0"
diskLib.dataCachePageSize = "4096"
diskLib.maxUnsyncedWrites = "0"