Our DBA needs to experiment with different Oracle RAC configurations and upgrade paths.
I have a spare ESX server that I was going to dedicate to him.
An Oracle RAC test instance will consist of 2 VMs, one for each RAC node, and some kind of shared storage.
I was going to use independent disks to simulate a connection to a shared SAN LUN for the two RAC nodes.
However, I really want to be able to snapshot configurations, so he can reset the environment to try different approaches.
Does anyone know of an alternative that might work for this that I can snapshot?
If I place the 2 VMs in a vApp, can I snapshot them together.
Alternatively, if I cannot get this approach to work, is it possible to have a vApp with 2 VMs and a few independent disks that I can convert to a template?
This ESX host is running vSphere 5.5 standard.