Re: 11.2 RAC without SCAN

  • From: Chris Taylor <christopherdtaylor1994@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Dba DBA <oracledbaquestions@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 15:33:15 -0600

On you laptop you can install DUAL DHCP DNS server to run as a service.
 You configure it to connect to the local DNS for passthru requests, and it
ALSO reads your hosts file to deliver them as DNS lookups :)  Love this
tool for lab stuff.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dhcp-dns-server/

Chris



On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Dba DBA <oracledbaquestions@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> This is not for production. I am doing some practice installs so I can
> mess with RAC in a lab environment at work. These test servers don't have
> SCAN IPs and SAs don't have time to set them up.
>
> When I do the laptop RAC installs such as
> http://www.lab128.com/rac_installation_using_vb/article_text.html
>
> We just put the SCAN IPs into the hostfile, but its generally considered a
> bad idea. I can still get the install to work if I do that right?
>
> no apps will connect to it. I need to do a large number of RAC and Data
> Guard installs in a short time in the future. Place I work has alot of
> scripts and standards to follow that are in several docs. I want to do some
> trial runs to put alot of their scripts together, get a response file for
> silent installs, etc... done, so when I have to do it for real, its less of
> a hassle. So this is just for me.
>

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