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Re: Upcoming presentations: OOW, UKOUG

Dan Norris — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:25:31 -0000

Hi Ben,

Yeah, I think I know the problem (and you do too obviously), but we can discuss it at OOW if you'd like. The VMWare networking is one area I hope I can spend a little more time talking about this time around...we'll see. See you there!

Dan

Re: Upcoming presentations: OOW, UKOUG

Ben Prusinski — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:23:03 -0000

Dan,

Hope to see your presentation on Sunday at OOW. Maybe you can help me figure out how to setup RAC on a buggy laptop with little RAM and space. I always hit snags with VMWare networking and the initial clusterware install for 10g/11g. Should be fun. Maybe you can tell us some Scuba jokes as well.

-Ben

Re: Upcoming presentations: OOW, UKOUG

Dan Norris — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:43:53 -0000

If you guys get lost and end up near Monterrey, look for me among the marine life as I'll be diving on Saturday before heading to OOW for the week :). I've heard only good things about the UKOUG event and am very excited about being able to attend since I've wanted to go for the last several years and have managed to miss it previously due to conflicts.

Have a nice cruise (like there's any way you couldn't)!

Re: Upcoming presentations: OOW, UKOUG

Robert Freeman — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:32:14 -0000

When I've been there, I've always been impressed with the attendees. Its an awesome conference.

Re: Upcoming presentations: OOW, UKOUG

Robert Freeman — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:31:11 -0000

That would be WHALES not WALES... but I could not edit it. (kind of punny too with the talk about the UK)...

Re: Upcoming presentations: OOW, UKOUG

Robert Freeman — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:29:10 -0000

Dude! The way you manage to ENJOY OOW is to do what I did. Mistakenly plan an Alaska Cruise at the same time. So, while you are having fun doing your thing, I'll be sitting on my balcony of the Golden Princess looking for wales. The UKOUG is a blast. I have not submitted abstracts for the last 2-3 years there because of my schedule but I MISS it. The people there are great, the conference center is an awesome forum and there are some really smart people there. I hope to submit abstracts for next year though, I miss the UK!!!!

Re: Upcoming presentations: OOW, UKOUG

Dan Norris — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:54:07 -0000

I just saw you might make it to the blogger meetup, so I'll hope to meet
up with you there as well. Either way, I'll see you in Birmingham for
sure!

Re: Upcoming presentations: OOW, UKOUG

Doug Burns — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:23:33 -0000

>> ... and many other famous European Oracle gurus

Oh, I don't think we have gurus, but you might discover a pub or two. (Well, probably just one. No need to move around too much ;-))

Actually, I'll probably see you at Openworld before then, but you really need Birmingham, UK in December for the full UKOUG effect!

Re: Upcoming presentations: OOW, UKOUG

Dan Norris — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:30:11 -0000

Where's your E 2.0 preso? I couldn't find it in the lineup yet. I
searched for "Huff"--did you use an alias? :)

Re: Upcoming presentations: OOW, UKOUG

bex — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:11:53 -0000

awesome... I added your RAC talk to my schedule...

Re: Upcoming presentations: OOW, UKOUG

Dan Norris — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:20:08 -0000

Thanks, Doug. I'm looking forward to meeting you and many other famous
European Oracle gurus in person (finally).

Thanks for the note!

Re: Upcoming presentations: OOW, UKOUG

Doug Burns — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:02:10 -0000

Really pleased that you'll be coming over to UKOUG and we'll be sure to make you welcome ;-)

Cheers,

Doug

Re: Upcoming presentations: OOW, UKOUG

Dan Norris — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:08:10 -0000

Cool, then I'll be watching for your new article/blog post once you
finish the experiment. I haven't tried VirtualBox yet, so I can't
comment on its complexity vs. VMWare, but I do plan to try it out some
day--in my free time :)

Re: Upcoming presentations: OOW, UKOUG

Don Seiler — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:43:54 -0000

You've basically answered the question. Simply because there aren't too many articles out there. A lot of people I talk to are switching to VirtualBox, and so I thought "why not". I don't think it make add too much complexity that isn't already there with VMWare.

Re: Upcoming presentations: OOW, UKOUG

Dan Norris — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:28:06 -0000

Why not VMWare? On Windows, it's free and it only costs $99 or something
on Mac. I haven't tried VirtualBox, but as there are many articles
describing building RAC on VMWare and I haven't seen one on building RAC
on VirtualBox, I'm not sure why you'd challenge yourself on the first
try (save that for the 2nd try).

Let me know if you run into troubles...I've bloodied myself on all the
brick walls, so I can probably shortcut your troubleshooting at least a
little.

Re: Upcoming presentations: OOW, UKOUG

Don Seiler — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:15:12 -0000

Yep I have Tim's first article bookmarked, I'll be largely basing my adventures on it, just s/VMWare/VirtualBox/g and test. If I had known that Dan "The Man" Rodriguez was going to RAC Attack, I would have paid my own way. Schaumburg will never be the same after we were there in March.

I appreciate the offer, but a private showing would literally just be me, probably not worth your time (or at least I wouldn't be able to afford the rate). I work for Pythian, but I work out of my home in Wisconsin. I did attend a series of 2-hour presentations from Gregory Guillou on setting up a RAC while there in May. I should probably get my hands "dirty" and set it up myself now. I also watched Alex Gorbachev down a plate of oysters like they were going extinct. The man loves his oysters.

Re: Upcoming presentations: OOW, UKOUG

Dan Norris — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:09:10 -0000

No need to kill anyone, we'll be doing it again and if you want a
private showing, I can facilitate that as well (I am a consultant after
all! :) Drop me an email and we can chat about particulars if you're
interested.

In the meantime, I'd suggest Tim Hall's articles as good starting
points--even if you haven't set up RAC previously, you can probably
follow his recipes pretty easily.
http://oracle-base.com/arti...

I also wrote a session based partly on Tim's how-to article and you'll
find that whitepaper and presentation on my site at
http://www.dannorris.com/pr....

Re: Upcoming presentations: OOW, UKOUG

Don Seiler — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:20:06 -0000

I would kill to be at that RAC on VMWare show. I'm thinking of trying my hand at doing it on VirtualBox. Probably would help if I've ever set up RAC anywhere previously.