The purpose of CLIFTON is to have development tools using a Oracle client connecting to a remote database server.
I am proposing to install the following software:
What resources I am mainly concerned with at this stage are:
Oracle® Linux Installation Guide for Release 7 referred me to Oracle® Linux Release Notes for Oracle Linux 7 for installation requirements.
According to 1.1 System Requirements,:
…A minimum of 2 logical CPUs and 1 GB of memory per logical CPU is recommended. Although the minimum disk space required for installation is 1GB, a minimum of 5 GB is recommended.
I think two (2) CPUs and consequently 2 GB of memory is excessive for a client installation. I will start with one (1) CPU while keeping the recommendation of 1 GB of memory in mind. However, I will go with the recommendation of 5 GB for disk space.
According to 2.2.4 Server Memory Minimum Requirements, I need at least 256 MB of RAM.
According to 2.2.3.1 Disk Space Requirements for Linux x86-64, I need at least 1.8 GB of disk space.
I plan to go with Oracle JDeveloper Java because I just want to develop Java applications.
1.5 Verifying Your System Requirements for Installing Oracle JDeveloper refers me to Section 5.7.2, "Oracle JDeveloper Requirements on Linux Operating Systems" which advises 4 GB of RAM and 90 MB for disk for the Java Edition.
This memory requirement makes the VM far too large for my VM farm of 16 GB servers. I will have to go without JDeveloper.
Without JDeveloper, I am left with basic programming tools like Python or Java. Since Python is now the trendy language, I will go with the cx_Oracle Python package to do my client programming.
The documentation at Welcome to cx_Oracle's documentation! does not mention any system requirements. I will assume that there is no special requirements.
It looks I will need the following:
The only resource allocations I need are an IP address and a DNS entry. These have allocated as: