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Contents
Installation of Oracle 12c database on Oracle Enterprise Linux – 6.7....................................................2
Oracle 12c Database Software.......................................................................................................2
Other Software’s required..............................................................................................................3
Oracle VirtualBox Software............................................................................................................4
Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.7 software..............................................................................................4
Oracle VirtualBox Installation.........................................................................................................6
Virtual Machine Setup..................................................................................................................10
Guest Operating System Installation............................................................................................17
Prepare Steps......................................................................................................................................34
Edit the “hosts” file of Linux1 ......................................................................................................35
Disable Firewall............................................................................................................................36
Install oracle-rdbms-server-11gR2-preinstall using yum..............................................................37
Create directories and grant permissions.....................................................................................40
Manual Setup...............................................................................................................................41
Additional Setup...........................................................................................................................44
Backup using VM..........................................................................................................................45
Oracle Installation...............................................................................................................................46
Windows sharing to Linux................................................................................................................46
Install Database............................................................................................................................50
Verify the installation...................................................................................................................59
Install Database – Non-Container-database (Advance)................................................................59
Install Database – Container Database(including Pluggable Database)........................................72
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Installation of Oracle 12c database on Oracle Enterprise

Linux – 6.7

Here is my setup, I have 32 GB Server with Windows 8 installed and with 2 TB HDD on
which the installation was done. I have created 1 VMs using Oracle Virtual Machine.

Windows 8 Server
Linux 6.7
32 GB RAM / 2 TB HDD
4/8 GB RAM/200
GB

Oracle 12c Database Software

Oracle Database 12c Release 1 from OTN

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Oracle 12c client on Windows Desktop

Other Software’s required

vnc viewer free version on windows

http://www.realvnc.com/cgi-bin/download.cgi?product=free4/vncviewer/win

Instructions -

http://www.appsdba.info/docs/oracle_apps/redhat/VNC_Doc.pdf

Winscp (free software)

Copy files from windows to linux and vice versa
http://winscp.net/eng/download.php
(this software we will use for ftp between windows and linux)
Instructions -
http://www.appsdba.info/docs/oracle_apps/redhat/WinSCP.pdf

Download putty.exe only

Putty is used to maintenance of you Oracle database
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Instructions -
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Oracle VirtualBox Software
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox

Windows Users

http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.0.0_RC3/VirtualBox-5.0.0_RC3-101436-Win.exe

Linux Users

http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.0.10/VirtualBox-5.0-5.0.10_104061_el5-1.x86_64.rpm

Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.7 software

Download OEL 6.7 using below link

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Select Oracle Linux Release 6 Update 7 Media Pack for x86 (64 bit), Click Continue.
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V77197-01.iso

Note:, if you want to Install Linux on a new Server, you need to burn them using the image option
available with your cd-writer software, if you are using Oracle VM u may not need
Refer: http://www.petri.co.il/how_to_write_iso_files_to_cd.htm
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Oracle VirtualBox Installation

Install the VirtualBox-5.0.6-103037-Win.exe version on the Windows host machine

or

rpm -Uvh VirtualBox-5.0-5.0.2_102096_el5-1.x86_64.rpm on Linux box

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Virtual Machine Setup

Start - Oracle VM VirtualBox (on windows)

Go to System Tools – Oracle VM VirtualBox (On linux)

Start VirtualBox and click the "New" button on the toolbar. Click the "Next" button on the first page of
the Virtual Machine Wizard.
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Enter the name "linux1", OS "Linux" and Version "Oracle (64 bit)", then click the "Next"
button.
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The "linux1" VM will appear on the left hand pane. Scroll down the "Details" tab on the right
and click on the "Network" link.

Make sure "Adapter 1" is enabled, set to "Bridged Adapter" and "eth0",
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The virtual machine is now configured so we can start the guest operating system
installation.

Guest Operating System Installation

Click on General->Advanced and change shared clipboard to Bidirectional and Change Drag ‘n’ Drop
to Bidirectional and click Ok

In the storage section, select the OEL6.7 iso file

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Start the virtual machine by clicking the "Start" button on the toolbar. The resulting console window
will contain the Oracle Linux boot screen.
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Scroll Down and click NEXT

Select basic Storage and click Next

Select Discard any Data

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Click Next
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Give password for root

Select Replace Existing Linux

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Select Write Changes to disk

Select Database Server option and select Customize now and Click Next
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Select Tiger VNC

Select options as below for Desktop and Click Next

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Click Yes

Reboot the Guest Machine

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Click Forward
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Prepare Steps

First of all check whether we can connect to the internet or not

ping www.google.com

PING www.google.com (74.125.130.103) 56(84) bytes of data.

64 bytes from sb-in-f103.1e100.net (74.125.130.103): icmp_seq=1 ttl=46 time=63.4 ms

64 bytes from sb-in-f103.1e100.net (74.125.130.103): icmp_seq=2 ttl=46 time=63.5 ms

64 bytes from sb-in-f103.1e100.net (74.125.130.103): icmp_seq=3 ttl=46 time=62.2 ms

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Edit the “hosts” file of Linux1 .
Follow the below steps on linux1
vi /etc/hosts

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs

# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.1.18 linux1.appsdba.info linux1

Verify

ping linux1

PING linux1.appsdba.info (192.168.1.18) 56(84) bytes of data.

64 bytes from linux1.appsdba.info (192.168.1.18): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.044 ms

64 bytes from linux1.appsdba.info (192.168.1.18): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.047 ms

64 bytes from linux1.appsdba.info (192.168.1.18): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.022 ms

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Disable Firewall
Now we need to disable the firewall: Linux Main menu | System | Administration | Firewall. Click on
“Disable” icon, then on “Apply”.

Click on "Disable" icon, then on "Apply".

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Install oracle-rdbms-server-11gR2-preinstall using yum

yum install oracle-rdbms-server-12cR1-preinstall -y

Identify the IP address and make it static

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Save the settings

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You need to start the network using below command

Service network restart

Create directories and grant permissions

mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle
chown -R oracle:oinstall /u01/app/
chmod -R 775 /u01/app/oracle
chown oracle:oinstall /u01/app/oracle

Create an environment file

su - oracle

cat > oracle.env

ORACLE_UNQNAME=cdb1; export ORACLE_UNQNAME

ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle; export ORACLE_BASE
ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/12.1.0/db_1; export ORACLE_HOME
ORACLE_SID=cdb1; export ORACLE_SID
PATH=/usr/sbin:$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
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Manual Setup

If you have not used the "oracle-rdbms-server-12cR1-preinstall" package to perform

all prerequisites, you will need to manually perform the following setup tasks.
Add or amend the following lines in the "/etc/sysctl.conf" file.

fs.file-max = 6815744
kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128
kernel.shmmni = 4096
kernel.shmall = 1073741824
kernel.shmmax = 4398046511104
net.core.rmem_default = 262144
net.core.rmem_max = 4194304
net.core.wmem_default = 262144
net.core.wmem_max = 1048576
fs.aio-max-nr = 1048576
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 9000 65500

Run the following command to change the current kernel parameters.

/sbin/sysctl -p

Add the following lines to the "/etc/security/limits.conf" file.

oracle soft nofile 1024

oracle hard nofile 65536
oracle soft nproc 16384
oracle hard nproc 16384
oracle soft stack 10240
oracle hard stack 32768
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Install the following packages if they are not already present.

# From Public Yum or ULN

yum install binutils -y
yum install compat-libcap1 -y
yum install compat-libstdc++-33 -y
yum install compat-libstdc++-33.i686 -y
yum install gcc -y
yum install gcc-c++ -y
yum install glibc -y
yum install glibc.i686 -y
yum install glibc-devel -y
yum install glibc-devel.i686 -y
yum install ksh -y
yum install libgcc -y
yum install libgcc.i686 -y
yum install libstdc++ -y
yum install libstdc++.i686 -y
yum install libstdc++-devel -y
yum install libstdc++-devel.i686 -y
yum install libaio -y
yum install libaio.i686 -y
yum install libaio-devel -y
yum install libaio-devel.i686 -y
yum install libXext -y
yum install libXext.i686 -y
yum install libXtst -y
yum install libXtst.i686 -y
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yum install libX11 -y

yum install libX11.i686 -y
yum install libXau -y
yum install libXau.i686 -y
yum install libxcb -y
yum install libxcb.i686 -y
yum install libXi -y
yum install libXi.i686 -y
yum install make -y
yum install sysstat -y
yum install unixODBC -y
yum install unixODBC-devel -y

Create the new groups and users.

groupadd -g 54321 oinstall

groupadd -g 54322 dba
groupadd -g 54323 oper
#groupadd -g 54324 backupdba
#groupadd -g 54325 dgdba
#groupadd -g 54326 kmdba
#groupadd -g 54327 asmdba
#groupadd -g 54328 asmoper
#groupadd -g 54329 asmadmin

useradd -u 54321 -g oinstall -G dba,oper oracle

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Additional Setup

The following steps must be performed, whether you did the manual or automatic
setup.
Set the password for the "oracle" user.

passwd oracle

Amend the "/etc/security/limits.d/90-nproc.conf" file as described below. See MOS Note [ID
1487773.1]

# Change this
* soft nproc 1024

# To this
* - nproc 16384

Set secure Linux to permissive by editing the "/etc/selinux/config" file, making sure the
SELINUX flag is set as follows.

SELINUX=permissive

Once the change is complete, restart the server or run the following command.

# setenforce Permissive
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Backup using VM
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Oracle Installation

Windows sharing to Linux

In this topic we shall see how to share a windows folder and access it in Linux 

1> Share a folder in Windows

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Windows IP address 192.168.1.9 and USER is the user in the windows 7/8 

Now login to Linux and access all the shared folder on Windows

smbclient -L 192.168.1.9 -U USER

 Create a directory in linux and mount it

mkdir -p /software

mount -o username=USER //192.168.1.9/database /software

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run vncserver on the Guest machine

From windows machine using vncviewer

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Install Database

Let’s install the Oracle Database

Run the environment file – oracle.env
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Verify the installation

[oracle@linux1 ~]$ . ./oracle.env

[oracle@linux1 ~]$ sqlplus "/as sysdba"

SQL*Plus: Release 12.1.0.2.0 Production on Mon Jan 29 16:45:42 2018

Copyright (c) 1982, 2014, Oracle. All rights reserved.

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Connected to:
Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition Release 12.1.0.2.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Advanced Analytics and Real Application Testing options

SQL> select name from v$database;

NAME
---------
CDB1

Install Database – Container Database(including Pluggable Database)

In Oracle Database 12c Release 1 the concept of multitenant environment has been
introduced. The multitenant architecture enables an Oracle database to function as a
multitenant container database (CDB) that includes zero, one, or many customer-created
pluggable databases (PDBs). A PDB is a portable collection of schemas, schema objects, and
nonschema objects that appears to an Oracle Net client as a non-CDB. All Oracle databases
before Oracle Database 12 were non-CDBs.

A CDB includes the following components:

 Root

The root, named CDB$ROOT, stores Oracle-supplied metadata and common users. An
example of metadata is the source code for Oracle-supplied PL/SQL packages. A
common user is a database user known in every container. A CDB has exactly one
root.

 Seed

The seed, named PDB$SEED, is a template that you can use to create new PDBs. You
cannot add objects to or modify objects in the seed. A CDB has exactly one seed.

 PDBs

A PDB appears to users and applications as if it were a non-CDB. For example, a

PDB can contain the data and code required to support a specific application. A PDB
is fully backward compatible with Oracle Database releases before Oracle Database
12c.
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Each of these components is called a container. Therefore, the root is a container, the seed is
a container, and each PDB is a container. Each container has a unique container ID and name
within a CDB.

References:
http://www.oracle-dba-online.com/
http://www.oraclealchemist.com/news/install-oracle-12c-12-1/
http://db.geeksinsight.com/dbahelper/oracle-12c-interview-question-answers/
https://oracle-base.com/articles/12c/oracle-db-12cr1-installation-on-oracle-linux-
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