VMWare Fusion 3 and Shared Disks

Those of you who’ve tried will know that VMWare Fusion 2 did not officially support shared disks. It was still possible to do this, but it was not ideal. Well this has now changed.VMWare Fusion 3 supports shared vdisks!

To enable this:

1.) Create a new disk and add it to all the virtual machines that will be sharing it.


2.) Add the following setting to the configuration file of each of the virtual machines that needs to access the shared disk: disk.locking = “FALSE”

3.) Use a cluster filesystem to prevent any corruption issues.

Cheers
F.


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So you want to play with Oracle 11g’s RAC? Here’s how.

Installing Oracle 11g RAC on virtual servers using VMware.

This post describes the installation of Oracle 11g RAC on virtual servers. Continue reading

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Download Oracle 11g now!

Finally, almost a month after the unveiling of Oracle 11g it’s now available for download!
Go here to grab the Linux version.  You can find the documentation library here.

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Oracle 11g white papers & data sheets


While announcing Oracle 11g the following white papers and data sheets were released by Oracle today. Still waiting for the software to be made available…


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Oracle Applications 12 – OAM Dashboard

I’ve finally installed Oracle Apps 12 on Linux. There was a few issues along the way – I’ll report on this later. Below is a preview of the new OAM Dashboard.


Update: I’ve decided in the end not to blog about the installation issues I had, as it was sorted out fairly quickly by Oracle.


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