These terrific products allow users to create a variety of operating system (OS) and software configurations without having to buy or revamp existing hardware. In particular, I discussed why an IBM i specialist may find using a virtualized workstation helpful. Some time ago, in an article entitled Developers Don’t Despair: Virtualize Your PC, I listed the benefits of using PC emulation software such as Microsoft‘s Virtual PC or VMware‘s VMware Workstation. Be sure to add the vmdk extension so you can identify the files as VM disk files later on.Microsoft Virtualization for the i Guys, Revisited I prefer to name the local disk “ boot disk” and keep the local disk in the same directory as the other VM files. Although this allows disks from multiple VMs to live in the same directory, the names start to get very unwieldy, especially if you later add a second and third disk.
VMware Workstation likes to name the disk file using the same name as the VM. Splitting the disk into multiple smaller parts allows us some flexibility in backing up the files later. At the end of the install the new disk will actually be about 8GB, but sizing it larger allows us to install the Oracle binaries later on. Next we size the new disk at 40GB and select “ Split virtual disk into multiple files”. Each of our two RAC VMs will eventually have a local disk each, plus access to shared disks, but for now we can simply “ Create a new virtual disk”. Again we will revisit this later on, but for now we can select the recommended LSI Logic SAS option. Since this is a Windows laptop, VMs are created in the user’s Documents area in a sub-directory called Virtual Machines.Ī bridged network adapter will allow us to access the internet from inside our VM. VMware Workstation allows us to set the location for the VM files.
Obviously you may choose whatever names you like. The second node later on will be named Mimi. I am going to name my first Windows VM Rodolfo. I am going to continue the opera theme of my Linux RAC but this time I am going to use La Boheme as my inspiration. Set an easy to remember password and click Next. This first account will automatically be added to the Administrator group in Windows. But I will go ahead and create an oracle account named “oracle”. I am not going to enter the activation key at this point. It also asks us for the Windows activation key and a first account to create. VMware Workstation has already detected that the ISO is Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter.
On the next screen we select the version of Windows we are installing. On the next screen we point the installer at our ISO DVD image containing the Windows Server 2008 software. The new VM will be compatible with Workstation 9.0
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