RAC Attack introduction presentation that I gave at Collaborate 2014 conference. Please feel free to reuse and present it yourself (no permission from my side is required)

1. RAC Attack
INTRODUCTION

2. An Oracle Community
Project
FROM COMMUNITY
FOR COMMUNITY

4. How do you learn new features?
o Learn theory
o Courses
o Conferences
o Books/Blogs/References
o Learn on a project
o Hands on
o Limited time
o May not be the best solution at all
o May not be the best way to learn (but very
efficient)

5. Reasonably good way to learn
o Learn theory
o Check the theory
o Implement on a sandbox
o Play with features
o Check edge cases
o Use for a project
o Get back to the sandbox to
repeat, troubleshoot, solve ongoing issues

7. What is RAC Attack?
o A set of step by step instructions on how to
get Real Application Cluster installed on
your laptop using Oracle stack of software
o Oracle Virtual Box 4.x
o Oracle Linux 6.x
o Oracle Database 12c
o VNC Viewer
o Putty (or other SSH client)

9. What is RAC Attack?
o A Project of the Oracle Professional Community
o Anyone can contribute to it
o Main instructions hosted under
wikibooks.org racattack 12c
o Main forum/coordination under
freelists.org racattack
o RAC Attack is going to be present on most
major Oracle Conferences in 2014
o Many local Oracle User Group running events
o Excellent networking opportunity

10. RAC Attack isn’t just about RAC
o Most importantly it instructs you how to
o Create the most complex infrastructure
o On your laptop (there is no better sandbox)
o In minimal possible time
o After you build the RAC Attack you can
create infrastructure to install a sandbox
for virtual any product

12. RAC Attack teach you to:
o Create VMs
o Create multiple virtual networks
o Local to your laptop (available offline)
o Internet connection (can be switched on/off)
o Create different storage types
o Local to VM
o Shared to all VMs
o Setup DNS/DHCP services (advance)
o BIND/ALL VMs/SCAN
o Clone VMs

13. Most importantly you can
customize your RAC
Attack implementation
the way you want 

16. Few important points/advice
o Hardware
o Any platform that could run Virtual Box
Windows (recommended 64bit), Mac, Linux ….
o RAM: 2 nodes RAC => 8GB
There are rumors that it is possible to install on 3GB (10g)
o ~45 GB of HDD space
o Implementation time
o 4-6 hours, depending IO speed and issues
o First time follow the instructions exactly

18. There are many contributors!
Some examples => DEMO
Kamran Agayev A.
Step by Step installing Oracle 12c RAC on VirtualBox
http://kamranagayev.com/2013/09/22/step-by-
step-installing-oracle-12c-rac-on-virtualbox/
Alvaro Miranda
RACAttack12cR1VagrantLab add 3 leaf nodes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g-_h84HTIY

19. RAC Attack future
o Recently implemented 12c on Virtual Box
o There are plans to implement advanced
workshops (great learning opportunities)
o Recent/future events
o German Oracle User Group
o Oracle OpenWorld
o UKOUG Tech
o RMOUG
o Collaborate 2014
o …..

20. RAC Attack summary:
o Excellent base for Oracle 12c learning
o Excellent networking opportunity
o Conferences
o Facebook
o Twitter

21. Q