Summary
Installing a highly available Oracle SOA Suite 12c cluster is a little more tedious than a traditional single-node installation, and even the EDG should be considered as merely a guide.
This chapter focused on one of the more commonly used architectures and provided concise and direct instructions to help you avoid the lengthy installation documents from Oracle.
The steps involved include:
Downloading the Software
Downloading Oracle Fusion Middleware 12c
Downloading Oracle Java
Downloading Oracle Web Tier 12c
Ensuring proper installation prerequisites
Ensuring hardware requirements
Setting up a load balancer
Setting up a hostname
Preparing a filesystem
Configuring an operating system
Verifying a temp and SWAP space
Creating operating system accounts
Configuring operating system prerequisites
Creating custom environment scripts
Unzipping software
Installing Java and Infrastructure
Installing Java and Infrastructure on MidTier
Installing Java and Infrastructure on WebTier
Running the Repository Creation...