00 Setup

Overview

This is a rough guide to the steps I followed to set up GORDON prior to transferring the REPOS database from GRIDCTRL.

References

• Michael Kerrisk - man7.org
  • chown
  • groupadd
  • mkdir
  • usermod
  • yum

Tried to Set Up NFS for Software Installation

Encountered the issue described in Unable to Use NFS under VirtualBox.

This means that I will have to have a larger local disk than normal in order to install the software, and have to use the local disk for the database data files.

Procedure

Install OEL7

Used V46135-01.iso to install OEL7. This was a minimal installation.

Updated OEL7 through yum:

yum upgrade

Use Pre-Installation RPM

Followed the procedure in Use Pre-Installation RPM.

Oracle Groups

The following groups are established for use by the oracle user:

Update Security

Used the following commands (as root) to change the password for the oracle and grant it sudo access:

visudo # allow wheel group to do sudo without a password groupadd asmdba groupadd oper groupadd dbkm groupadd dbbackup groupadd dbdg usermod oracle -g oinstall -G oinstall,wheel,dba,oper,asmdba,dbkm,dbbackup,dbdg

Create Software Installation Directory

Used the following commands (as root) to create the software directory at /opt/app/oracle/software:

mkdir -p /opt/app/oracle/software chown -R oracle:oinstall /opt/app 

Install UNZIP

Since this was a minimal installation, no UNZIP package was available. I had to install UNZIP as follows:

sudo yum install unzip

Unzip the Uploaded Software

The following ZIP archives were uploaded to /opt/app/oracle/software:

linuxamd64_12102_database_1of2.zip linuxamd64_12102_database_2of2.zip linuxamd64_12102_grid_1of2.zip linuxamd64_12102_grid_2of2.zip

As oracle user, I ran the following commands to unzip the software prior to installation:

cd /opt/app/oracle/software unzip -q linuxamd64_12102_grid_1of2.zip -d . unzip -q linuxamd64_12102_grid_1of2.zip -d . unzip -q linuxamd64_12102_database_1of2.zip -d . unzip -q linuxamd64_12102_database_2of2.zip -d .

Set Aside Devices for ASM

Two (2) disks are set aside for ASM disk groups:

The ownership of these disks is changed as follows to enable discovery by the installer:

chown oracle:dba /dev/sdb chown oracle:dba /dev/sdc

Install Grid Infrastructure 12.1.0.2

Followed the procedure in Install 12.1.0.2 GI Standalone.

Added FRA Disk Group

Followed the procedure in Create New ASM Disk Group Using ASMCA to add the FRA disk group as /dev/sdc.

Install Oracle 12c RDBMS Software

Followed the procedure in Install Oracle RDBMS 12.1.0.2 With Grid Infrastructure.