Installing the Oracle Database

Abstract

The previous chapter dealt with the installation of Oracle Linux, and its configuration in preparation of the installation of the Oracle binaries. As you have seen there are a number of prerequisites that needed to be met. In this chapter the focus shifts to the Oracle binary installation. In this respect the chapter is divided into two parts. The first one will explain the installation of Oracle Restart or—as it is also known—Grid Infrastructure for a standalone server. You will require such a setup if you would like to make use of ASM, which I recommend as an alternative to older file systems not able to perform concurrent and direct I/O. If you decide to use a file system and don’t want to make use of the features offered by Oracle Restart besides ASM, feel free to skip directly to the RDBMS installation in part two. I recommend you read on for arguments in favor of Oracle Restart because there are significant benefits to using it, as described in the section “Installing Oracle Restart”.