11g on VMWare
159999Sep 29 2007 — edited Oct 1 2007I understand that Oracle server is not supported on VMWare but this is just a test install and I am facing two major issues which I never faced in 10g under same environment. I have installed 11g RAC on a two node SLES 10 sp1 virtual machine. I am faced with two issues:
a) After reboot, the CRS doesn't start. It does not even start if I issue init.crs start command. After lot of experimentation, I found that after issuing init.crs start, the CRS cannot find the voting disk. However, if I rerun the root.sh script, the CRS starts up immediately. By itself the root.sh doesn't startup the CRS. I have to run it after running init.crs start. What does root.sh do to make CRS recognize the voting disk? Why init.crs cannot do the same? The disk permissions etc. are correct.
b) The virtual machines do not stay up for more than 30-45 minutes. They crash without any entry in CRS logs about node eviction. Is there a way to relax the timings so that even with missed heartbeats, the CRS would wait longer before evicting a node?
If someone has any insight, I would greatly appreciate. I had earlier tested the same setup with 10g RAC and did not face these issues.
Thanks