Hi Connor, I happened to have setup similar thing on a vista host: VMware server 1.06 with two nodes / Centos 5.2 / RAC 11g / Clusterware 11g. No problems with dbca recognizing the cluster. Could create a rac database. Regards, Andre 2008/8/4, Connor McDonald <mcdonald.connor@xxxxxxxxx>: > > Hi all, > > Just playing with 11g RAC at home (a couple of vmware "nodes" on CentOS). > > Clusterware installed fine. > DB software installed fine. > > Normally I'd just use plain old scripts to then create the db, but I > thought, why not give dbca a go to see what it does "out of the > box"... > > But DBCA won't show the preliminary "RAC welcome" screen, ie, don't > recognise the cluster. > > olsnodes on each node lists the two nodes as expected. > crs_stat -t gives me gsd/ons/vip all online on each node > cluvfy stage -pre dbcfg on each node tells me that everything is just > peachy... > > yet ... dbca doesn't have a clue... > > Adding -DDEBUG to dbca reveals > > [main] [21:49:21:897] [ClusterAlias.<init>:85] ClusterAlias Instance > created. > [main] [21:49:21:925] [Host.checkOPS:2308] cluster existence:true > [main] [21:49:21:926] [OracleHome.getNodeNames:300] inside getNodeNames > [main] [21:49:21:957] [OracleHome.isClusterInstalled:282] > bClusterInstalled=false > [main] [21:49:21:957] [OracleHome.getNodeNames:300] inside getNodeNames > [main] [21:49:21:962] [Host.checkOPS:2346] Cluster installed=false > > which whilst confirming dbca's lack of awareness of a cluster, doesn't > really help toward a diagnosis... > > Any ideas anyone ? > > Cheers > Connor > -- > Connor McDonald > =========================== > email: connor_mcdonald@xxxxxxxxx > web: http://www.oracledba.co.uk > > "Semper in excremento, sole profundum qui variat" > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >