[racattack] Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: RAC Attack configuration question....

  • From: Jeremy Schneider <jeremy.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "racattack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <racattack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 14:43:42 -0400

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Mark J. Bobak <mark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
So, I'm going to be leading a RAC Attack event in November, so, I thought
I'd better get up to speed with the latest versions of VirtualBox, OL, and
Oracle. I've done a RAC Attack setup a couple of times before, but it's
been a year or more.

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Alfredo Abate <alfredo.abate@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Thanks for those providing those notes! We are having a RAC Attack event
in Chicago in a few weeks and I plan to get started on the installs this
weekend so I'm sure this will help.

Mark and Alfredo - could you list your events at
http://racattack.org/events ? One of the best things about this list
is that you can see who has recently run events. Ludovico, Erik and
Bobby have all run recent events and Markus Flechtner has one
scheduled two weeks from now in Germany.

Ludovico, Erik, Bobby and Markus: what versions of Enterprise Linux
and VirtualBox have you used? Website says EL 6.4 and VirtualBox
4.2.12 to 4.2.18 (software components page). Have you guys already
used newer version of EL and VirtualBox? We might want to wait and
tackle RH7 and database 12.2 at the same. (I have no inside knowledge
about 12.2 but 161818.1 says that 12.1.0.2 is terminal so 12.2 must be
coming next.)

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Mark J. Bobak <mark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
FYI, all my recent testing was VirtualBox 5.0, OL 6.7, and Oracle 12.1.0.2.

Mark, thanks for testing virtualbox 5! for the most stable
experience, stick with the tested version for your class. to join the
ranks of racattack legends, use virtualbox5 in your classes - and make
sure to incorporate any lessons learned back into the wikibook! it's
very easy to edit the pages, don't be afraid. :) virtualbox5 is
definitely important to get on top of and your notes already provide a
great starting point. Alvaro if you have time to verify Mark's notes
then you two could probably start updating the official wiki
instructions.

one idea would be to initially put the virtualbox 5 differences in
infoboxes or something, then move them to the main text after they've
been tested by a few classes. just to make sure that the wiki remains
somewhat stable as we update it, since people all over the world are
using these lab instructions to run rac attack workshops.

-Jeremy

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