Oracle Fusion Applications installation – Step by step guide

Fusion Applications 11.1.1.5.1 installation is not straightforward unlike E-Business Suite 11i/R12 installation. So we need to divide the installation into following main steps. Please note that we have changed the default order since we are going to host both RCU in one database which is fine since both have different schemas. This will save us a lot of Memory for the VM. Please note that we will be performing single node installation so all components will be installed on single node.

Preparing for Oracle Fusion Applications installation

1. Downloading Oracle Fusion Applications media
   
2. Creating Oracle VirtualBox Virtual Machine with Oracle Linux
   

   OR
   

   Installing Oracle Linux 5 (Update 7) on a Physical machine
   

3. Staging/Creating Oracle Fusion Applications provisioning repository
   

Installing Oracle Fusion Applications – steps

1. Installing Fusion Applications Provisioning Framework
   
2. Installing Oracle 11g Database (Applications Transactional Database)
   
3. Running Oracle Fusion Applications Repository Creation Utility (Applications RCU)
   
4. Creating another database for Oracle  Identity Management Infrastructure (optional)
   
5. Running Repository Creation Utility (RCU) for Oracle Identity Management components
6. Installing Oracle Identity and Access Management Components
   
7. Configuring Oracle Identity and Access Management components
   
8. Preparing Identity and Policy Stores
   
9. Creating a New Provisioning Plan
   
10. Provisioning an Applications Environment

We are going to install Fusion Applications 11.1.1.5.1 for Linux x86-64 Operating system.

So we will download the installation media for Oracle Fusion Applications 11.1.1.5.1 for Linux x86-64 from http://edelivery.oracle.com

Login first to access following screen.

Select “Oracle Fusion Applications” and “Linux x86-64” from the list. Click Go

Download the first 13 media files. We will not need rest of the media for this installation.

Unzip all these files into one Stage directory.

Important Note: Since some of the files have very long directory path (very close to 255 characters), please unzip these files into <Drive>:\stage folder only to keep short name. At least 2 files have very long path so let us try to avoid this.

At the end of this exercise you will have following directory structure.

We will mount this directory in Linux later.

Next, we must have Linux x86-64 OS installed either on physical or a virtual machine. We will use Oracle (Sun) VirtualBox to host our virtual machine and Oracle Linux 5 (update 7) as base operating system. In short we will use Oracle products only during this installation.

Note: We can also use VMWare to host the Virtual Machine. We will post another guide on setting up VMWare virtual machine. But the good thing is that the virtual machine/disks which we create in VirtualBox, same we can use in VMWare as well since we will create .vmdk format disks. This will add flexibility for you to use it anywhere later.

Next: Creating Oracle VirtualBox Virtual Machine with Oracle Linux

Many a times we face a problem wherein mistakenly some files get created in a directory which are hard to rename or remove especially when working with putty terminal, by mistake if you paste come content on command prompt then it will create junk files with hyphen, tilde or any junk character in beginning.

For example “-abc”, “~abc” etc.

Solution:

In this case “rm -abc” or “rm ~abc” etc will not work. Simple solution is to use “rm ./-abc” or “rm./~abc” etc