11gR2 RAC Step By Step Configuration On VMWare part1

I successfully configured 11gr2 RAC on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.6 (64 bit)  on my laptop , for that i  inspired the article posted by mohamed azar on his blog
http://mohamedazar.wordpress.com
But during the installation i stucked in a lot of stage , that i want to share here.

I configured the whole setup in my windows 7 (i5-64 bit) laptop having  8GB RAM (i suggest 8GB even you can see many blogs and website telling that they configured under 6GB , i fed up with many stages as my LAP goes slow). For the entire set up you will require minimum of  90GB free space in your hard disk.
30 GB for each node and a 30GB for shared storage ( In 11gr2 we can store datafiles , OCR and voting disk in ASM  )

I divide the entire stage into 5 parts

1. Vmware installation
2. Nodes configuration on vmware
3. Installing and configuring Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.6 on VMware + Preparing VMware clone for node2
3. GRID configuration (  In 11gr2 clusterware is renamed as GRID)
5. Rdbms instance configuration

I indebted  Mohamed azar for his effort and here i am using his documents with some alteration.

STAGE 1

1. Vmware configuration

1. First you have to download vmware server , here i used the version "VMware-server-2.0.2". You can download the software free from vmware website , for that you have to register on vmware website after that you will get the link for download. Make sure to save the  the appropriate serial number that you got from vmware website during registration.
So to get VMWare Server free serial number or product key, simply complete this registration. You can get for free up to 100 serial numbers at one go without any  charges or fees.

After getting downloaded (size should be near to 520MB) ,install the software on you laptop.
It is very simple to install  just go forward with each stage as its says..

 Installing VMware Server

Once you download the VMware Server 2.0 file, double click on the file to start the installation

The above screen should come up when you double click on the installation file. wait a few minutes until the installation wizard comes up:

  

click on the Next button.

accept the license agreement on the following screen, and click Next

  
 On the next window choose the destination folder.The default path should be fine.

Click on the next button.

Next, you will need to choose  the storage path for your virtual machines. The default path is  again,

As you can see, you also need to specify the full qualified domain of the machine VMware server will be hosted on. the default settings are fine with me, because I will be using VMware on my local computer. also uncheck “Allow virtual machines to start and stop automatically with the system” that is if you are not going to be using VMware server 2.0 regularly.

click next, after you enter the settings. Next, you will need to choose where you will want to have the shortcuts to launch VMware server. click next, after that.

on the  next screen, you are ready for the installation, click on Install.

After a while through the installation, VMware server installation wizard should ask you for the registration key:

  

Enter your own registration key you got on your e-mail from VMware. click Enter after that.

the installation of VMware Server 2.0 should be completed.

click on Finish.

restart the computer to launch VMware server for  the first time.