Recommendations for setting up a Oracle environment for a 2-year class

  • From: Charles Schultz <sacrophyte@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:56:56 -0500

Good day, list,

I will be helping at a local community college, and would like to start
thinking about setting up an environment where students can play and do
homework. I believe we will be targeting a max of 15 students, and plan to
cover basic things like software installation & patching, database creation,
using EM (both Grid Control and Database Control), and all areas of
management. Probably not RAC, as it would be a bit too much for an intro
class series.

Anyone have experience setting up this kind of environment? I will obviously
want different Oracle Homes for each student, and right now we only one host
(dual cpu quad core) with 10gb of memory; would also like to squeeze EM on
there as well, and I would most likely want to specify ports using the
command-line options for runInstaller. Right now the host is running
Slackware, which has not been too bad for us (have to do some hacks to get
runInstaller going). As of now, the class is targetting Oracle 10gR2, but I
am thinking 11g might be an interesting venture.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. TIA

-- 
Charles Schultz
Sent from: Champaign Illinois United States.

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