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Oracle Database 11g [11.2.0.4] Installation Oracle Database 11g [11.2.0.4] Installation on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6.8 – VirtualBox
Table of Contents 1. Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 2
1.1. Required Software ................................................................................................................... 2
2. Operating System Installation ......................................................................................................... 3
2.1. Creating a New Virtual Machine ............................................................................................. 3
2.2. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 .................................................................................... 7
3. Oracle Database Preparation ........................................................................................................ 22
4. Oracle Database Installation ......................................................................................................... 30
1. Introduction This document is an overall guide for installing Oracle Database 11g [11.2.0.4] on Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 6 operating system installed on VirtualBox [5.1.22].
1.1. Required Software Before you start following this document, it is assumed that you have already installed the software
listed below.
Oracle VM VirtualBox VirtualBox-5.1.22-115126-Win
Putty putty.exe
Xming Xming-6-9-0-31-setup.exe
Additionally, it is assumed that you have already downloaded the operating system and database
setup files listed below.
Red Hat Linux 6.8 rhel-server-6.8-x86_64-dvd.iso
Oracle Database 11g p13390677_112040_Linux-x86-64_1of7 p13390677_112040_Linux-x86-64_2of7
2. Operating System Installation
2.1. Creating a New Virtual Machine
1. Run VirtualBox software
2. Click “New”
3. Enter a name for the virtual machine and select the operating system type and version as follows
and click “Next”
4. Allocate a portion of the memory for the virtual machine (minimum of 1 GB, recommended 2GB
or more) and click ”Next”
5. Choose “Create a virtual hard disk now” and click “Create”
6. Choose “VDI” and click “Next”
7. Choose “Dynamically allocated” in order to let virtual hard drive grow as you use and click “Next”
8. Select a location to save the virtual hard drive and also adjust the size of virtual hard drive
(minimum of 25 GB is needed for our purpose), and click “Create”
9. Now that you have the virtual machine, to start its operating system installation click “Start”
2.2. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8
10. Select the ISO file “rhel-server-6.8-x86_64-dvd”and then click “Start”
11. Click “Skip”
12. Click “Next”
13. Choose the installation language and click “Next”
14. Choose the keyboard and click “Next”
15. Select “Basic Storage Devices” and click “Next”
16. Click “Yes, discard any data” on the warning box and click ”Next”
17. Type a name for this virtual computer and click “Next”
18. Select your nearest city and click “Next”
19. Enter a root password and click “Next”
20. Select “Use All Space” and also check off the “Review and modify partition layout”, then click
“Next”
21. Edit partitions with min of 150 MB /boot, min of 2GB swap, and min of 20GB /root sizes
22. Click “Format” on the warning box
23. Click “Write changes to disk” on the warning box
24. Click “Next”
25. Choose “Customize now” and click “Next”
26. Check off the following packages and click “Next”
Base System > Base
Base System > Compatibility libraries
Base System > Hardware monitoring utilities
Base System > Large Systems Performance
Base System > Network file system client
Base System > Performance Tools
Base System > Perl Support
Servers > Server Platform
Servers > System administration tools
Desktops > Desktop
Desktops > Desktop Platform
Desktops > Fonts
Desktops > General Purpose Desktop
Desktops > Graphical Administration Tools
Desktops > Input Methods
Desktops > X Window System
Development > Additional Development
Development > Development Tools
Applications > Internet Browser
27. Click “Reboot”
28. Click “Forward”
29. Choose “Yes, I agree to the “License Agreement” and click “Forward”
30. Select “No, I prefer to register at a later time” and click “Forward”
31. Click “Register Later” on the warning box
32. Click “Forward”
33. Create a user by typing a username, full name and a password then click “Forward”
34. Uncheck “Enable kdump?” option and click “Finish”
35. Click “Yes” on the warning box
36. Click “OK” on the warning box
37. After the reboot, type your user password and click “Log In”
38. Now that you have the operating system RHEL 6.8 installed on a virtual machine
3. Oracle Database Preparation
39. Configure the network to be able to use the putty:
Click “Settings” on VirtualBox -> Click on “Network” tab -> select “Host-only Adapter”
-> click “OK”
40. Open Network and Sharing Center of the host machine i.e. Windows -> Click “Change adapter
settings” -> Double click on “VirtualBox Host-Only network” -> Note down the IPv4 Address and
IPv4 Subnet Mask details
41. Edit network settings of the RHEL 6.8 server:
Open “Network Connections” as shown below
42. Double click on “System eth0” -> Click on “IPv4 Settings” tab -> Change Method to “Manual” ->
Click “Add” -> Type values that were noted before and also consider the changes made on
“Gateway” and “Address” columns as shown below -> click “Apply” -> reboot the machine
43. Disable Firewall:
Open “Firewall” configuration as shown below and Click “Close” on the startup dialog
44. Click the “Disable” button on the toolbar
45. Click the “Apply” button on the toolbar
46. Click “Yes” on the warning box
47. Disable SELinux:
Edit the “/etc/selinux/config” file by changing the “SELINUX” parameter as shown below
Then, reboot the server
48. Install required Linux packages for Oracle Database:
Mount the Linux installation ISO as a CD-ROM device, as shown below. Note that if
any other device is already mounted to the CD-ROM, unmount(eject) it first Click “Settings” button on VirtualBox -> Click on “Storage” tab -> Choose “rhel-
server-6.8-x86_64-dvd.iso” from the “Optical Drive” selection -> click “OK” Finally, login as root user in order to install required packages
SELINUX=disabled
[user@testserver ~]$ reboot
[user@testserver ~]$ su -
Copy & Paste the following into a terminal in order to start the installation of
packages
cd /media/RHEL-6.8\ Server.x86_64/Packages
rpm -Uvh binutils-2*x86_64*
rpm -Uvh compat-libcap1*x86_64*
rpm -Uvh compat-libcap1*i686*
rpm -Uvh compat-libstdc++-33*x86_64*
rpm -Uvh compat-libstdc++-33*i686*
rpm -Uvh elfutils-libelf-0*x86_64*
rpm -Uvh elfutils-libelf-devel-0*x86_64*
rpm -Uvh gcc-4*x86_64*
rpm -Uvh gcc-c++-4*x86_64*
rpm -Uvh glibc-2*x86_64* nss-softokn-freebl-3*x86_64*
rpm -Uvh glibc-2*i686* nss-softokn-freebl-3*i686*
rpm -Uvh glibc-common-2*x86_64*
rpm -Uvh glibc-devel-2*x86_64*
rpm -Uvh glibc-devel-2*i686*
rpm -Uvh glibc-headers-2*x86_64*
rpm -Uvh ksh-*x86_64*
rpm -Uvh libaio-0*x86_64*
rpm -Uvh libaio-0*i686*
rpm -Uvh libaio-devel-0*x86_64*
rpm -Uvh libaio-devel-0*i686*
rpm -Uvh libgcc-4*x86_64*
rpm -Uvh libgcc-4*i686*
rpm -Uvh libstdc++-4*x86_64*
rpm -Uvh libstdc++-4*i686*
rpm -Uvh libstdc++-devel-4*x86_64*
rpm -Uvh libstdc++-devel-4*i686*
rpm -Uvh make-3*x86_64*
rpm -Uvh numactl-devel-2*x86_64*
rpm -Uvh sysstat-9*x86_64*
49. Create Oracle User, Groups and Directories
Copy & Paste the following into a terminal in order to create oracle user and groups
Copy & Paste the following into a terminal in order to create directories
50. Edit “/etc/hosts” file
Copy & Paste the following into a terminal
Add the following line to the file (press “i” from keyboard in order to change vi mode
to INSERT, and after adding the line press “Esc” and type “:wq” to save and quit from
the file)
51. Edit the bash profile
Copy & Paste the following into a terminal to login as oracle user and edit
.bash_profile
Add the following lines to the file (press “i” from keyboard in order to change vi
mode to INSERT, and after adding the lines press “Esc” and type “:wq” to save and
quit from the file)
groupadd oinstall
groupadd dba
groupadd oper
useradd –g oinstall –G dba,oper oracle
passwd oracle
mkdir –p /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome
chown –R oracle:oinstall /u01
chmod –R 775 /u01
vi /etc/hosts
192:168:56:2 testserver.testnet.com testserver
su - oracle
vi .bash_profile
52. Re-login as the oracle user in order bash profile to take effect
53. Change the kernel parameters
Copy & Paste the following into a terminal in order to login as root user and edit
“/etc/sysctl.conf”
Add the following lines to the file (press “i” from keyboard in order to change vi
mode to INSERT, and after adding the lines press “Esc” and type “:wq” to save and
quit from the file)
Then, Copy & Paste the following line into the terminal
# Oracle Settings
TMP=/tmp; export TMP
TMPDIR=$TMP; export TMPDIR
ORACLE_HOSTNAME=testserver.testnet.com; export ORACLE_HOSTNAME
ORACLE_UNQNAME=TESTDB; export ORACLE_UNQNAME
ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle; export ORACLE_BASE
ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/11.2.0/dbhome; export ORACLE_HOME
ORACLE_SID=TESTDB; export ORACLE_SID
PATH=/usr/sbin:$PATH; export PATH
PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH; export PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:/lib:/usr/lib; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
CLASSPATH=$ORACLE_HOME/jlib:$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/jlib; export CLASSPATH
su -
vi /etc/sysctl.conf
fs.suid_dumpable = 1
fs.aio-max-nr = 1048576
fs.file-max = 6815744
kernel.shmall = 2097152
kernel.shmmax = 2076276736
kernel.shmmni = 4096
# semaphores: semmsl, semmns, semopm, semmni
kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 9000 65500
net.core.rmem_default=262144
net.core.rmem_max=4194304
net.core.wmem_default=262144
net.core.wmem_max=1048586
/sbin/sysctl -p
54. Edit “/etc/security/limits.conf” file
Copy & Paste the following into a terminal in order to edit “/etc/security/limits.conf”
Add the following lines to the file (press “i” from keyboard in order to change vi
mode to INSERT, and after adding the lines press “Esc” and type “:wq” to save and
quit from the file)
4. Oracle Database Installation
55. Enable X11 forwarding of Putty as shown in the following
vi /etc/security/limits.conf
oracle soft nproc 2047
oracle hard nproc 16384
oracle soft nofile 4096
oracle hard nofile 65536
oracle soft stack 10240
Click “Open” and login as oracle from the startup screen of Putty
Copy & Paste the following line to export your display
Copy & Paste the following line to create temporary setup path and copy the
database installation files (“p13390677_112040_Linux-x86-64_1of7” and
“p13390677_112040_Linux-x86-64_2of7”) into this directory and unzip them.
Copy & Paste the following line to run the installer
56. Uncheck “receive security updates” option and click “Next”
export DISPLAY=192.168.56.2
mkdir –p /u01/setup
/u01/setup/database/runInstaller
57. Click “Yes” on the warning box
58. Check off “Skip software updates” and click “Next”
59. Select “Install database software only” option and click “Next”
60. Click “Next”
61. Click “Next”
62. Click “Next”
63. Click “Next”
64. Click “Next”
65. Click “Next”
66. Click “Install”
67. Run those scripts as root user then click “OK”
68. Now that Oracle Software installation is done
69. Run Database Configuration Assistant by Copy & Paste the following command into a terminal
70. Click “Next”
dbca
71. Click “Next”
72. Type the Global Database Name given in bash profile and click “Next”
73. Uncheck “Configure Enterprise Manager” option and click “Next”
74. Type a password and click “Next”
75. Check off the options for database file locations as shown below and click “Next”
76. Uncheck all options on this screen since they can be done after installation and click “Next”
77. Click “Next”
78. Select “Custom” memory management option and enter SGA and PGA sizes as their total will be
around the 75 percentage of the total physical memory size. (since we have 2 GB of memory in
this installation, total size of SGA + PGA is set to around 1.5GB)
79. Change “Process” count according to your expected concurrent session count and click “Next”
80. Select “Use Unicode” for the Character Sets option and click “Next”
81. Select “Dedicated Server Mode” and click “Next”
82. Click “Next”
83. Click “Finish”
84. Lastly, click “OK” to DONE your installation!