Oracle Installation notes

• Create user and group:
•  groupadd -g 201 dba
• groupadd -g 200 oinstall
•  useradd -g oinstall -G dba -u 200 oracle
• mkdir /export/home/oracle
• chown -R oracle:oinstall /export/home/oracle 
• passwd oracle (setup password for oracle user) 

• Create ZFS pool to install Oracle (optional)

•  Find out which pools exist and which disks are used by those pools
• zpool status
•  Create a pool named oraclePool
• zpool create  oraclePool c0t5000C5001D250C7Fd0   c0t5000C5001D207157d0 
  

  zfs create oraclePool/11gR2

• Create directories and provide them right permissions:
• mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle
• mkdir -p /u01/app/11.2.0/grid
• mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle/11.2.0/db
• chown -R oracle:oinstall /u01
• chmod -R 775 /u01
• Oracle BASE : /u01/app/oracle
• GRID Base: /u01/app/11.2.0/grid
• DB BASE: /u01/app/oracle/11.2.0/grid

• Install the required packages

•  pkg install  SUNWarc SUNWbtool SUNWhea SUNWlibm SUNWlibms SUNWpool SUNWsprot SUNWtoo SUNWuiu8 SUNWfont-xorg-core SUNWfont-xorg-iso8859-1 SUNWmfrun SUNWxorg-client-programs SUNWxorg-clientlibs SUNWxwfsw pkg://solaris/SUNWxwplt
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• Set project attributes
• projmod -s -K 'process.max-file-descriptor=(basic,10000,deny)' oracleProject

Things to check

• 11.2.0.3 and later are supported on Solaris 11
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•  Set up AWT_TOOLKIT variable on Solaris 11

• if installing on Solaris 11, set the following variable so runInstaller can work
• export AWT_TOOLKIT=XToolkit

• To setup rsh/ rlogin/ssh between nodes on Solaris 11:

•  pkg  install service/network/legacy-remote-utilities
•  inetadm -e  svc:/network/login:rlogin
• svcadm enable /network/shell:default

• Clone ASM and DB installation

• Check out Appendix B of this document:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/install.112/e24346/toc.htm

• If you want to do a slient install with response file check out appendix A.
•  Verify if you have all the required packages:
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• pkginfo -i SUNWarc SUNWbtool SUNWhea SUNWlibm SUNWlibms SUNWpool SUNWpoolr SUNWsprot SUNWtoo SUNWuiu8 SUNWfont-xorg-core SUNWfont-xorg-iso8859-1 SUNWmfrun SUNWxorg-client-programs SUNWxorg-clientlibs SUNWxwfsw SUNWxwplt 
• Else install the packages
• pkg  install <list of space separated pkg names> 
• If required you can delete existing publisher and add new publisher
•  pkg set-publisher -G '*' -g  http://ipkg.us.oracle.com/solaris11/dev/ solaris
  # pkg publisher
  PUBLISHER                             TYPE     STATUS   URI
  solaris                               origin   online   http://ipkg.us.oracle.com/solaris11/dev/