Yesterday I was browsing through some docs in Metalink regarding RAC on Windows… then again came across the “RAC Starter Kit and Best Practices” notes…

RAC Assurance Support Team: RAC Starter Kit and Best Practices (Generic) (Doc ID 810394.1)
RAC Assurance Support Team: RAC Starter Kit and Best Practices (Windows) (Doc ID 811271.1)

On the Generic note, just recently they’ve uploaded a new version of the RAC System Load Testing white paper… you can also find on the attached docs the RAC System Test Plan…

Both of these docs are good stuff.. we all know that critical to the RAC install is testing the right components in the stack, either from the perspective of Performance, Scalability, or Reliability..

so these docs will guide you through the tools (yes you’ll have choices), steps, and structure on how to ensure a highly available RAC setup…

The company I work for, SQL*Wizard,  is a RedHat Advanced Business Partner so I was lucky to get my hands dirty on the BETA release of RHEV, also a pleasure to work with Siva Shunmugam (Sr. Solutions Architect@RedHat & RHCA). I must say, KVM is so fast… plus the RHEV manager is so cool as a management platform

Soon I’ll have some Virtualization related posts about my experiences RHEV-iiinnggg…..

You may also want to download the RedHat whitepaper on Scaling Oracle Database on RHEV:
Scaling Oracle 10g in a Red Hat® Enterprise Virtualization Environment – RedHat Reference Architecture Series

For more info go to these links:
http://www.redhat.com/virtualization/rhev/server
http://www.redhat.com/v/swf/rhev/demo.html

Enjoy RHEViiinnggg…..