Oracle 10g/11g installation on Windows 2008 Server

Posted by: andreiash in Database, Oracle

I ran a migration workshop last week and had a partner who tried to install Oracle on a Windows
2008 Server.
Here are the today’s certification status:
- Oracle DB 10gR2 is certified
- Oracle DB 11gR1 is NOT certified yet, but projected
- Hyper-V and Server Core in Windows 2008 are not supported by Oracle

According to the last statement of direction, the timeframe for certification/support of 11g on
Windows Server 2008 is 1st quarter 2009.

However, probably most of you know the difference between compatible and supported. In the
end we’ve got both 10gR2 and 11gR1 successfully installed.

Last but not least I want to share a specific issue that appeared (Metalink note 729744.1): when
trying to run DBCA to create the database, it get stucked at 2% and throws a strange ORA-12560
error. This is due to the AD controller installed on the same machine.
You’ll hit this issue when trying to install any OTN-downloaded version (10.2.0.3, 11.1.0.6).

How to overcome this:

1. save the AD settings, uninstall it, install Oracle Database and reinstall AD.
2. install on a non-controller machine
3. (recommended) install the Oracle DB software.
- If 10gR2 install 10.2.0.4 Patch 14 or patch 7677780 and then use DBCA to create the
database
- If 11gR1 install 11.1.0.7 Patch and then use DBCA to create the database (I didn’t test
this version, but should work).

Good luck! … and please share with me your experience