At the Oracle Open World in 2011, it was announced that Oracle fusion applications will soon be available to the general public. These applications are meant to be the ERP solution for the next generation and will soon take place of the current Oracle E Business Suite, Siebel, PeopleSoft and other products that were developed or acquired by Oracle in the past. This suite has been in development for six years, comes on 24 DVDs and is over 50GB in size. Oracle Fusion training classes can be quite helpful for those who are interested in this massive set of applications.
Installing such a huge product is never easy, even for the most experienced IT administrators. Oracle understood the precarious situation and responded by making a provisioning structure and a suite comprising of provisioning tools that would make deployment a lot simpler.
Installing Fusion Applications
A great platform for creating instances for test and development of the Fusion application is the Amazon Web Services. You can choose Oracle’s VMK AMI as the OS and the virtual machine as it has some OS components that are necessary for the installation. Also, in the end, every Oracle product becomes certified and is supported on Amazon Web Services, given that they run on an Oracle VM. There is a small glitch in the AMI that makes the server hang on restart. However, this glitch can be solved by removing a line from the HWADDR file.
As the product size is so big, the software should always be launched from the server which will contain all of the target media. You can do this by starting your browsing session on the server and then opt for the direct download. You will only be required to enter username, password and certain questions regarding the export limitations. After you do this, the provisioning framework is the first thing to be installed which has the provisioning wizard tool and other required tools.
You are then required to run the provisioning wizard tool. This tool will help you in performing various actions. You can maintain the existing environments, provision the transaction environment or create a transaction database. As the transaction database is a must for Oracle fusion applications, it should be installed first. First, you have to provide answers to questions related with Oracle Home, base, and the new data file locations. When you are done, the new database is created. The transaction database is created by using the templates provided, which are about 55GB in size. The database contains a lot of important structures that are required for the later installations.
Other Components
Once you are done with the transaction database, you need to install the Application RCU (Repository Creation Utility). This is important because the RCU helps you in creating tablespace and schemas that are specific to a particular application. You will need to install the Oracle Identity Management tool that is important for managing various user identities across the enterprise. You will also need to install the SOA suite, Oracle Forms, Reports, and Oracle HTTP server. A technical course will help with the new installations.
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