[racattack] Re: RACAttack on steroids (how to speed up deployment) We need volunteers for implementation

  • From: Seth Miller <sethmiller.sm@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "racattack@freelists org" <racattack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 09:53:21 -0600

Before doing any work creating kickstart or post install scripts, please
take a look at DOJO. I spent a lot of time creating kickstart scripts and
firstboot type scripts to automate much of the installation and setup. Feel
free to add/modify anything.


On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 3:08 AM, Marcin Przepiorowski <pioro1@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> There is an another github repository -
> https://github.com/pioro/racattac_vbox
> I created a set of scripts to configure a Virtual Box machines. It's not
> finished yet as right now only one machine and set of ASM disks is created
> but it's worth to try if it is working on other configuration then my
> laptop.
>
> This scripts are using only windows cmd / Linux bash and VBoxManaged
> command.
> It is a equivalent of the following steps in the book
>
> 4.2
> 5.1
> 5.2
>
> If we use kickstart we can do some work from point 5.3 but only
> installation part without post configuration - Can we clean up a book a
> little bit and split OS installation and OS configuration ? Some OS
> configuration is done in OS installation part.
>
> regards,
> Marcin
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 5:34 AM, Leighton Nelson <leightonn@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> This is some good stuff Alvaro! I tested it and was able to build the
>> 2-node configuration (OS pre-reqs only) in about 20 mins (4GB 1CPU per
>> node). All it took was 'vagrant up' to get it up and running. As mentioned
>> earlier I'll start a new thread for the vagrant/packer stuff.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 10:34 PM, Alvaro Miranda Aguilera <
>> kikitux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> You ask, and I deliver.
>>>
>>> :D
>>>
>>> Enjoy.
>>>
>>> https://github.com/kikitux/packer-vagrant-oracle/tree/master/vagrant/rac
>>>
>>> Feel free to use, destroy, etc.
>>>
>>> I think is pretty explicative that readme.
>>>
>>> I will write a longer description, etc here later this week:
>>>
>>> http://kikitux.net/oracle-rac-vagrant.html
>>>
>>> At the moment, that is the vagrant + scripts, I will update later
>>> packer+scripts to get all in one shot.
>>>
>>> I did leave logs there for review.
>>>
>>> basically this does:
>>>
>>> Option A.
>>> - Import node2, configure OS
>>> - Import node1, configure OS
>>>
>>> What that mean?
>>>
>>> each node have 2 disks, os + /u01
>>> will create shared1.vdi and shared2.vdi (names and size customizable)
>>> will setup oracleasmlib so those disks will became
>>> /dev/oracleasm/disks/DATA and FRA
>>>
>>> plus it does all the neeed at os level, you run grid/runInstaller and
>>> the check will pass without error.
>>>
>>> you need to click on setup ssh, and the options you want.
>>>
>>> This takes about 6 minutes.
>>>
>>> Option B.
>>> it does everything , setup ssh, install grid, setup asm, create fra dg,
>>> update opatch, install jan 2014 cpu/psu on node1, and node2, install
>>> database home, update opatach on both nodes, apply cpu/psu ready to run
>>> DBCA.
>>>
>>> This takes 88 minutes on my mac mini, 2 cores 5GB of ram each node.
>>>
>>> Check the first link for the github page, and the Vagrantfile.
>>>
>>> If anything need to be clarified, let me know.
>>>
>>> Enjoy,
>>> Alvaro.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Leighton L. Nelson
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Marcin Przepiorowski
> http://oracleprof.blogspot.com
>

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