Hello

I am new to this (as you might have guessed) and tried to install RAC 10g (10.2.01) several times but always receive the same errors (in german):

While trying to create Instance with dbca it creates the following one
PRKR-1008
Instances [testdb11,testdb12] on node [ill_srac1,ill_srac2] on cluster database "testdb1", PRKR-1008: Instance testdb12 on node ill_srac2 could not be added to cluster database testdb1. could not be added

after pressing OK

PRKR-1001: Cluster database tetdb1 is not present

then I am back in the last window (16 of 16) of dbca

How did I do it:
Installing according to
http://www.dbasupport.com/oracle/ora...head0301.shtml plus others (thanks by the way)
trying it with two win2k3 nodes
on VMWare ESX.

What was different
I dont have access to the vmx files so the disk caching is not deactivated (does that matter or is that only for performance?)

While installing clusterware there is an error to copy the following files to c:\windows\system32\drivers onto node 2:
ocfs.sys
orafencedrv.sys
orafenceservice.sys
got around that error by copying it manually from node1 to node2 and pressing retry

it says there should be a log in cfgtoollogs\dbca\testdb1, but nothing there.

found this in windows event viewer, applications

Audit trail: ACTION : 'CONNECT' DATABASE USER: '/' PRIVILEGE :
SYSDBA CLIENT USER: ILL_SRAC1\Administrator CLIENT TERMINAL: ILL_SRAC1 STATUS: 0.


Any Ideas, other logs?
Thanks