Might not be quite what you were looking for, but here's a great blog post by Steve Karam on building a nice VM training machine based on VMWare's vSphere/ESXi. I've got it bookmarked and look at it once in a while to daydream. http://www.oraclealchemist.com/news/make-your-own-traininglab-environment-for-900/ On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 12:50 PM, John Piwowar <jpiwowar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yury Velikanov was able to get DualServer to do the necessary DNS "fake > out" for 12c RAC; presumably the principles are the same for 11gR2. Check > slides 39-42 of this deck: > http://www.slideshare.net/yvelikanov/oracle-12c-rac-on-your-laptop-step-by-step-implementation-guide-10-23587496 > > I'm a Mac+dnsmasq guy myself, so I can't comment on the efficacy of the > instructions, but Yury's generally a very thorough dude. :) > > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Chris Taylor < > christopherdtaylor1994@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> For a personal lab setup, do you need round robin? The load is going to >> be very small so I'm not sure if I would need it. >> >> Yep, it doesn't look like Dual DHCP DNS Server does round robin. >> >> Chris >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> If you are referring to DualServer, that will not work properly for RAC >>> - it does not do round robin. >>> >>> I am running dnsmasq for DNS as it does do round robin. >>> >>> Jared Still >>> Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist >>> Sr Oracle DBA at Pythian >>> Pythian Blog http://www.pythian.com/blog/author/still/ >>> Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com >>> Home Page: http://jaredstill.com >>> >> >> > -- Don Seiler http://www.seiler.us