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...
