This article describes the installation of Oracle Database 19c Standalone on Linux (Oracle Linux 7 64-bit) using VMWare Workstation Pro.
Introduction:
We are going to see how to install and configure Oracle 19c (19.3 64 bit) Standalone on Linux (Oracle Linux 7 64-bit). Since this is a standalone system, I have kept file system and all relevant dependencies as simple as it can be. I am using VMWare Workstation PRO 16. If you are seeking to have a free software, go with Workstation Player (It has its own limitations) or off course VirtualBox is always there to save us.
What are Prereqs to setup 19c Database Standalone server?
- 8GB RAM for VM
- Minimum 50GB disk space
- Required Softwares
Software Downloads:
Download the following software.
Let’s skip the VMWare installation as it’s a straightforward method to get installed on Windows. Remember, while you install it adds a network adapter and it’s suggested to reboot your system ones.
Machine Setup:
Open VMWare Workstation Pro and click on “Create new Virtual Machine”
Choose Custom configuration and click “Next”. Follow the screenshots and its values as mentioned.
Once clicked “Finish”, the VM will try to boot and you should see below screen for initial boot config.
Linux Installation:
I am keeping 2 Ethernet adapters just to allign communication with other VMs from VirtualBox. So kindly ignore other one.
Give a Hostname that suites best to you. This may be useful for us to configure an application from our host machine.
Set the root password and click “Done”.
Create 1 user like “admin” that is other than root for initial login.
Click on “Reboot” once the installation is done.
Accept the license terms.
Click on “Finish Configuration”.
Shutdown the server to create a shared folder between host system and VM Guest OS.
$ init 0Click on “Add” > “Next”. Mention the path from Host machine and give it a name.
Oracle Software Installation:
Start the VM.
From here, we’ll start using Putty. That makes our setup procedure much easy. I am using “MobaXterm”. This will support all extentions like SFTP, Xserver which are necessary for our installations.
[admin@ora19csa ~]$ su -
Password:
Last login: Sat Jul 31 01:25:31 EDT 2021 on pts/1
[root@ora19csa ~]#
[root@ora19csa ~]#[admin@ora19csa ~]$ curl -o oracle-database-preinstall-19c-1.0-1.el7.x86_64.rpm https://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/latest/x86_64/getPackage/oracle-database-preinstall-19c-1.0-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 18204 100 18204 0 0 35649 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 35694yum -y localinstall oracle-database-preinstall-19c-1.0-1.el7.x86_64.rpmRunning transaction
Installing : ksh-20120801-142.0.1.el7.x86_64 1/3
Installing : libaio-devel-0.3.109-13.el7.x86_64 2/3
Installing : oracle-database-preinstall-19c-1.0-1.el7.x86_64 3/3
Verifying : libaio-devel-0.3.109-13.el7.x86_64 1/3
Verifying : oracle-database-preinstall-19c-1.0-1.el7.x86_64 2/3
Verifying : ksh-20120801-142.0.1.el7.x86_64 3/3
Installed:
oracle-database-preinstall-19c.x86_64 0:1.0-1.el7
yum install ntp -y
yum update -ysystemctl disable avahi-daemon
systemctl stop avahi-daemon
passwd oracleCreate necessary directories where software will be installed.
mkdir -p /app/oracle/product/19.0.0.0/dbhome1mkdir -p /app/oraInventorymkdir -p /app/oracle/oradatamkdir -p /app/oracle/recovery_area
chown -R oracle:oinstall /app/
chmod -R 775 /app/Setting the bash profile.
[oracle@ora19csa ~]$ vi .bash_profile# Oracle Settings
export TMP=/tmp
export TMPDIR=$TMP
export ORACLE_HOSTNAME=ora19csa.dbgenre
export ORACLE_UNQNAME=ORCLSA1
export ORACLE_BASE=/app/oracle
export DB_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/19.0.0.0/dbhome1
export ORACLE_HOME=$DB_HOME
export ORACLE_SID=orclsa
export ORACLE_TERM=xterm
export BASE_PATH=/usr/sbin:$PATH
export PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$BASE_PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/OPatch
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:/lib:/usr/lib
export CLASSPATH=$ORACLE_HOME/JRE:$ORACLE_HOME/jlib:$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/jlibalias oh='cd $ORACLE_BASE/product/19.0.0.0/dbhome1'
alias na='cd $GRID_HOME/network/admin'
alias db='sqlplus / as sysdba'Run the below command to mount the Shared folder so we dont have to perform sftp all the time to bring the binaries, rather we could directly inflate it from dbhome folder.
vmhgfs-fuse .host:/ /mnt/hgfs -o allow_other[root@ora19csa ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 3.8G 0 3.8G 0% /dev
tmpfs 3.8G 0 3.8G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 3.8G 9.5M 3.8G 1% /run
tmpfs 3.8G 0 3.8G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mapper/ol-root 44G 13G 32G 28% /
/dev/sda1 1014M 341M 674M 34% /boot
tmpfs 771M 12K 771M 1% /run/user/42
tmpfs 771M 0 771M 0% /run/user/1000
vmhgfs-fuse 667G 45G 623G 7% /mnt/hgfsExtracting the software binary and installing 19c software.
I always prefer to keep my software installation, database creation and listener installation seperately though Oracle gives us a feature to club them all togather. This is to reduce my point of failures to the whole of installation.
[oracle@ora19csa dbhome1]$ cd /app/oracle/product/19.0.0.0/dbhome1
[oracle@ora19csa dbhome1]$ unzip /mnt/hgfs/dbgenre/Installs/Binaries/LINUX.X64_193000_db_home.zipAbove command inflates the software binary and keeps in the dbhome1 directory.
Setup Sudo as root:
[admin@ora19csa ~]$ su -Password:Last login: Sat Jul 31 01:25:31 EDT 2021 on pts/1[root@ora19csa ~]# vi /etc/sudoersoracle ALL=(ALL) ALL
With this, Software installation is done.
Database Creation:
Once finishing the software installation, lets create a database using “dbca”.
[oracle@ora19csa dbhome1]$ dbca
With this Database creation is done.
Listener configuration:
Now lets configure the Listener for our Database.
[oracle@ora19csa dbhome1]$ netca
By clicking “Finish”, we conclude LISTENER configuration and now we should be good to perform our health check.
Final checks:
Lets do a final health check, concluding we have done all required installation steps.
[oracle@ora19csa dbhome1]$ dbSQL*Plus: Release 19.0.0.0.0 - Production on Sat Jul 31 23:52:35 2021
Version 19.3.0.0.0
Copyright (c) 1982, 2019, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 19c Enterprise Edition Release 19.0.0.0.0 - Production
Version 19.3.0.0.0
SQL> select name, open_mode,database_role from gv$database;NAME OPEN_MODE DATABASE_ROLE
-–––– –––––––––– ––––––––
ORCLSA READ WRITE PRIMARY
SQL> show pdbs CON_ID CON_NAME OPEN MODE RESTRICTED
-——— —————————— ––––– –––––
2 PDB$SEED READ ONLY NO
3 PDB1 READ WRITE NO
[oracle@ora19csa dbhome1]$ ps -ef|grep lsnr
oracle 16644 1 0 23:33 ? 00:00:00 /app/oracle/product/19.0.0.0/dbhome1/bin/tnslsnr LISTENER -inherit
oracle 16922 8571 0 23:34 pts/2 00:00:00 grep --color=auto lsnr
[oracle@ora19csa dbhome1]$
[oracle@ora19csa dbhome1]$ lsnrctl statLSNRCTL for Linux: Version 19.0.0.0.0 - Production on 31-JUL-2021 23:34:37
Copyright (c) 1991, 2019, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connecting to (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=ora19csa.dbgenre)(PORT=1521)))
STATUS of the LISTENER
-———————–
Alias LISTENER
Version TNSLSNR for Linux: Version 19.0.0.0.0 - Production
Start Date 31-JUL-2021 23:33:53
Uptime 0 days 0 hr. 0 min. 43 sec
Trace Level off
Security ON: Local OS Authentication
SNMP OFF
Listener Parameter File /app/oracle/product/19.0.0.0/dbhome1/network/admin/listener.ora
Listener Log File /app/oracle/diag/tnslsnr/ora19csa/listener/alert/log.xml
Listening Endpoints Summary…
(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=ora19csa.dbgenre)(PORT=1521)))
(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=ipc)(KEY=EXTPROC1521)))
Services Summary…
Service “86b637b62fdf7a65e053f706e80a27ca” has 1 instance(s).
Instance “orclsa”, status READY, has 1 handler(s) for this service…
Service “c878064cff51345ce055020c299d225d” has 1 instance(s).
Instance “orclsa”, status READY, has 1 handler(s) for this service…
Service “orclsa” has 1 instance(s).
Instance “orclsa”, status READY, has 1 handler(s) for this service…
Service “orclsaXDB” has 1 instance(s).
Instance “orclsa”, status READY, has 1 handler(s) for this service…
Service “pdb1” has 1 instance(s).
Instance “orclsa”, status READY, has 1 handler(s) for this service…
The command completed successfully
[oracle@ora19csa dbhome1]$
With this we conclude our article here upon successfully completing our Oracle Database 19c Installation on VMWare Workstation PRO. As mentioned earlier, if you wish to perform the same in VirtualBox, pls do so. Steps and concepts are quite similar except the initial VM configuration.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Balaaji Dhananjayan