RAC Attack - Oracle Cluster Database at Home/Events

RAC Attack is on the road!! Come visit us in person and we'll help you setup RAC on your laptop, using this wikibook.

This wiki page is used for both visitor information and for organizer and volunteer coordination. If you have experience with RAC then please feel welcome to volunteer. And no matter who you are, please help us keep the information on this page up-to-date!

RMOUG 2012

Overview

Where	Exhibition hall near Pythian and APRESS booths.
Days/Time	15/16-Feb-2011 During exhibition opening hours
Event Organizers	Alex Gorbachev

Publicity

This year at RMOUG, get hands-on experience with Oracle RAC. Hang out in the exhibition hall with the experts from the RAC SIG and Pythian and get an 11gR2 RAC cluster database running inside virtual machines on your own laptop. You can drop in for few hours during the conference between the sessions or spend there the whole day setting up the environment and running through the labs.

To get the most out of this experience, we recommend that you bring a USB-powered external hard drive with 100G of free space or have an SSD with appropriate space on your laptop. You do need your laptop to set it up - not just hard-drive to copy. The labs are designed for Windows-based laptops but we will assist Mac OS X and Linux users as well. H/w requirements are on racattack.org and you can also start going via laptop preparation steps at home to save time at the conference.

Event logo is available as a vector graphic at https://github.com/ardentperf/racattack/blob/master/graphics/racattack-event-logo.svg

Tweet: TBD

OUGN Spring Seminar 2012

Overview

Where	Day 1: Radisson BLU Scandinavia, Oslo / Day 2: Color Magic (boat)
Days/Time	21nd & 22rd March 2012 (Day 1: From 11:00 / Day 2: TBC)
Event Organizers	Martin Bach, Martin Nash

Publicity

As part of Oracle User Group Norway's Spring Seminar 2012 (http://www.ougn.no/spring-seminar-2012) you will have opportunity to get hands-on experience building an Oracle RAC database using virtual machines on your own laptop with help from experts including Martin Bach (co-author of "Pro Oracle Database 11g RAC on Linux"). You will be welcome to spend as much time as you would like, or as little as you can spare. We'll help you get started, explain step-by-step or troubleshoot what's gone wrong.

To get the most out of this experience, we recommend that you bring a USB-powered external hard drive with 100G of free space or have an SSD with appropriate space on your laptop. You do need your laptop to set it up - not just hard-drive to copy. The labs are designed for Windows-based laptops but we will assist Mac OS X and Linux users as well. H/w requirements are on racattack.org and you can also start going via laptop preparation steps at home to save time at the conference.

Tweet: TBD

Archive: Oracle Openworld 2011

Overview

Where	OTN Lounge (attached to Howard Street Tent)
Days	Mon Oct 3rd - Thu Oct 6th
Time	9am - 1pm every day
Event Organizers	Alex Gorbachev, Jeremy Schneider (email)

Publicity

This year at Oracle OpenWorld, get hands-on experience with RAC! (A key part of Exadata.) Hang out at the OTN Lounge with experts from the IOUG RAC SIG and get an 11gR2 RAC cluster database running inside virtual machines on your own windows-based laptop. Experiment boldly - if you make a mistake then you won't have to start over; we can "reset" your virtual machines to any point in the labs. To get the most out of this experience, we recommend that you bring a USB-powered external hard drive with 100G of free space - you can buy one online for about $40. More info at http://racattack.org/e

Tweet: #RAC ATTACK in OTN Lounge at #OOW11. VMs on your windows laptop.
       Bring an external HD for best results. http://racattack.org/e

Event logo is available as a vector graphic at https://github.com/ardentperf/racattack/blob/master/graphics/racattack-event-logo.svg

Volunteers

If you have experience with RAC then please volunteer to help us teach DBAs who haven't used it yet!

To volunteer:

• edit this section (with edit link to the right of "Volunteers" text) and add your name to a timeslot
• either: (1) include contact info on this page, such as a wiki account name or (2) privately email an Event Organizer with your contact info

Rules:

• max two timeslots for each volunteer
• max two volunteers for each timeslot
• event organizers will setup, teardown and bring materials. one event organizer will always be on-hand at the RAC Attack table.

	Monday
9:00 - 10:45	Bjoern Rost (via mail), Martin Nash (email)
11:00 - 12:15	Frits Hoogland (email)
12:30 - 1:45	Sergio Del Rio (sent email)

	Tuesday	Wednesday
9:00 - 10:00	Bjoern Rost (via mail), Fuad Arshad (email)	Riyaj Shamsudeen (email), Karl Arao (email)
10:15 - 11:30	Tim Hall (email), Tariq Farooq (email)	Tim Gorman (sent email)
11:45 - 1:00	Tim Hall (email), K.P. Singh (email)	Gwen Shapira (email),Syed Jaffer Hussain (email)

	Thursday
9:00 - 10:15	Markus Michalewicz (sent email), Syed Jaffer Hussain (email)
10:30 - 11:45	Kai Yu (sent email), Tariq Farooq (email)
12:00 - 1:15	Markus Michalewicz (sent email), Dave Herring (email)

Organizers

To Do Pre-Conference

• Update DVD autobuilder script to get patchsets, test
• Update jumpstart scripts to prompt for dest drive if flag is set in config, test
• Run-through labs to test online tutorials, test ext hd and create jumpstart images

Materials Needed for Conference

• Three external USB-powered hard drives pre-loaded with jumpstart images [Jeremy has started this]
  • Cool graphic to print-out and attach physically to drives would be nice
• Large banner to hang over table
  • Need approval from OOW staff (Jeremy/Alex currently corresponding)
  • Jeremy has created basic images for promotion, can possibly use one of these
• Maybe:
  • Poster with basic getting-started instructions and pre-reqs, can attach to white-board provided by OOW
  • Few extra external USB-powered hard drives which can be handed out at-cost to a few people who didn't bring one
  • Few physical printed handbooks for people who prefer this over the online version

What Is Being Provided by the Conference

All of these details are tentative, naturally. There are no contracts involved... just goodwill. Please be sensitive and careful when posting any information from private email correspondences.

• Currently planned location - in the OTN Lounge next to Moscone Center, near the opening to the Howard street tent (where people will be having lunch, etc)
• Currently anticipate getting:
  • table (drawing shows 10 chairs around a 60 inch table) - we are also right next to several sofas, though these don't belong to us by any means
  • whiteboard
  • power
  • wireless internet access should be available
• Still waiting to hear whether we can hang a banner saying something like "RAC Attack / IOUG RAC SIG"

Archive: UKOUG 2011

Overview

Where	Overhang gallery above exhibition hall
Days	Tue Dec 6th
Time	09:00 - 18:35
Event Organizers	Alex Gorbachev, Jeremy Schneider (email)

Publicity

This year at UKOUG, get hands-on experience with RAC! (A key part of Exadata.) On Tuesday, hang out in the overhang gallery above the exhibition hall with experts from the IOUG RAC SIG and get an 11gR2 RAC cluster database running inside virtual machines on your own windows-based laptop. Experiment boldly - if you make a mistake then you won't have to start over; we can "reset" your virtual machines to any point in the labs. To get the most out of this experience, we recommend that you bring a USB-powered external hard drive with 100G of free space - you can buy one online for about $40. More info at http://racattack.org/e

Tweet: #RAC ATTACK tue in ex hall at #UKOUG. VMs on your windows laptop. 
       Bring an external HD for best results. http://racattack.org/e

Volunteers

If you have experience with RAC then please volunteer to help us teach DBAs who haven't used it yet!

To volunteer:

• edit this section (with edit link to the right of "Volunteers" text) and add your name to a timeslot
• either: (1) include contact info on this page, such as a wiki account name or (2) privately email an Event Organizer with your contact info

Rules:

• max two timeslots for each volunteer
• max two volunteers for each timeslot
• event organizers will setup, teardown and bring materials. one event organizer will always be on-hand at the RAC Attack table.

	Tuesday
09:00 - 10:10
10:10 - 11:15
11:15 - 12:25
12:25 - 13:25
13:25 - 14:40
14:40 - 15:35
15:35 - 16:40
16:40 - 17:50
17:50 - 18:35