Can you also ping rac1-priv and rac2-priv from each node? Can you provide the text of the error from the installer's logfile just to be sure it isn't reporting a "bad" message? Also, on windows, you have to make sure that the passwords are the same on each node, so make sure you've done that too. Dan On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 8:07 AM, nilesh kumar <nileshkum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello All, > > Good Morning! > > Hope every one is doing well!! > > I have a question/problem while configuring the RAC 10g on windows 2003 > servers using VMware. > I have installed vmware on windowsxp and then I installed windows2003 > servers with two nodes in vmware. I can ping RAC1 from RAC2 and vice-versa. > while installing the crs I entered the node information according to the > host file. But I am gettitng the error message that cannot reach RAC1 or it > is unavailable. > > The host file on both the nodes are as below..<snip> > >