Oracle Fusion Applications 11.1.9.2.0 Installation

2. VMWare Virtual Machines

Create Virtual Machines

Create 4 VMs according to these specifications:

Hostname	Operating System	Hard Disk (gb)	Memory (gb)
FADB	Windows Server 2008 R2 x64	100	10
FAIDM	CentOS 5.11	50 + 50 (stage)	8
FUSION	CentOS 5.11	200	64
CLIENT	Windows 7 SP1 x64	50	2

Note
For FAIDM, we create 2 virtual hard drives, one of this OS, one to store the staging files. This staging volume will be unmounted from FAIDM after IDM installation. Then, it is mounted to FUSION during FA installation.

Important

All virtual machines must set the system clock 10 years before your current time.
Set the system clock by booting the VM to BIOS (power on to firmware), and change the System Date to year 2015.

In the VMX file for all virtual machines, all the time synchronization parameters must set to FALSE.


tools.syncTime = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.continue = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.restore = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.resume.disk = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.shrink = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.tools.startup = "FALSE"

For Windows OS (FADB, CLIENT), turn off the Synchronize with Internet time server.

For Linux OS (FAIDM, FUSION), turn off the ntp service:


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service ntpd stop
chkconfig ntpd off
rm /etc/ntp.conf

Linux Installation

Since CentOS Linux was murdered by Redhat and IBM, you can only download the ISO image from alternative channels. One of the most reliable sites is from Internet Archive archive.org: https://archive.org/details/linux-centos-5.11-x86-64
Install the OS with Server - GUI options. Take all the default settings

Turn off SELinux and Firewall during installation.

Staging Folder

The virtual machine FAIDM have 2 hard drives, one for the CentOS, and one is for staging files.
After this OS is ready, transfer the FA media files downloaded from eDelivery to a temp folder in the OS drive
format and mount the other hard drive
Create a folder called STAGE and unzip all the files to this mount point:


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mkdir mnt/STAGE
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/STAGE
cd /tmp/archives
unzip -q -o V74516-01.zip -d /mnt/STAGE
unzip -q -o V74517-01.zip -d /mnt/STAGE
unzip -q -o V74518-01.zip -d /mnt/STAGE
unzip -q -o V74519-01.zip -d /mnt/STAGE
unzip -q -o V74520-01.zip -d /mnt/STAGE
unzip -q -o V74521-01.zip -d /mnt/STAGE
unzip -q -o V74522-01.zip -d /mnt/STAGE
unzip -q -o V74523-01.zip -d /mnt/STAGE
unzip -q -o V74524-01.zip -d /mnt/STAGE
unzip -q -o V74525-01.zip -d /mnt/STAGE
unzip -q -o V74526-01.zip -d /mnt/STAGE
unzip -q -o V74527-01.zip -d /mnt/STAGE
unzip -q -o V74528-01.zip -d /mnt/STAGE
unzip -q -o V74530-01.zip -d /mnt/STAGE
unzip -q -o V74531-01.zip -d /mnt/STAGE
unzip -q -o V74532-01.zip -d /mnt/STAGE
unzip -q -o V74533-01.zip -d /mnt/STAGE

Then you should see a new folder /mnt/STAGE/installers/, and all FA files are under it. This folder will be represented as <STAGE> in the rest of the document.

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