Time Required: 20 minutes

Class Materials:

• none

Next we need to configure the Linux kernel to support Oracle 12cR1.

Before we can install Oracle 12cR1 on our new VM, we need configure the Linux kernel. The following steps modify key settings to allow Oracle to execute.

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Time Required: 20 minutes

Class Materials:

• CentOS 6.4 64-bit install media

Before we can install Oracle 12cR1 on our new VM, we need to load additional RPM packages that are required by the Oracle database and grid.

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Time Required: 60 minutes

Class Materials:

• 60GB of free disk
• An operational VMware Workstation 9 or later install
• CentOS 6.4 64-bit ISO install media

To create our Oracle 12c RAC database on VMware Workstation 9, we first need to create a Linux VM.

Oracle 12c will eventually be released for a multitude of platforms, but the initial release only support Solaris SPARC, Solaris x86 and Oracle Linux 6.4.

I don’t own a SPARC machine, so instead I am going to install Oracle 12c RAC on CentOS 6.4.

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