Sunday, 27 November 2011

Installation of Oracle Applications R12.1.1 on Linux and vmware

The below article is step by step procedure to Install oracle E-Business suite R12.1.1 on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.6 (32-bit) using vmware server 2 on windows 7 64 bit. This is a single node Installation. (All services will be hosting on same machine 0 db, conc, web, forms etc) I have Installed it on a virtual machine with 4gb ram, 120 GB of local disk space and 1 core cpu. - Requires 80 GB of free space for fresh installation (excluding stage area) - Requires 100+ GB of free space for vision installation (excl. stage) I will split this configuration in 5 steps: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) create and configure virtual machine Install linux operating system create stage Area Perform all operating system per-requisites Install oracle E-business suite R12.1.1

create and configure virtual machine: >> Login to vmware Server console >> click on add virtual machine

>> Here i have selected iso image for OS Installation, you can select local cd drive if u want.

>> Now the virtual machine is created and ready for Linux Installation Install Linux operating system:

Here steps to Install Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.6 (32-bit). The below demonstration is for host orerp3 (another virtual machine created for R12 Installation). All steps are similar for all linux hosts. >> Follow step by step screens:

Perform all operating system per-requisites: >> create OS group, user and directories:

[root@oraerp1 ~]# groupadd dbaerp [root@oraerp1 ~]# useradd -G dbaerp applerp [root@oraerp1 ~]# useradd -G dbaerp oraerp [root@oraerp1 ~]# passwd applerp Changing password for user applerp. New UNIX password: BAD PASSWORD: it is based on a dictionary word Retype new UNIX password:

passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully. [root@oraerp1 ~]# passwd oraerp Changing password for user oraerp. New UNIX password: BAD PASSWORD: it is based on a dictionary word Retype new UNIX password: passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully. [root@oraerp1 ~]# mkdir /u01/applR12 [root@oraerp1 ~]# mkdir /u01/oraR12 [root@oraerp1 ~]# chmod -R 775 /u01/applR12/ [root@oraerp1 ~]# chmod -R 775 /u01/oraR12 [root@oraerp1 ~]# chown -R applerp:dbaerp /u01/applR12/ [root@oraerp1 ~]# chown -R oraerp:dbaerp /u01/oraR12/ [root@oraerp1 ~]#