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Requirements for Installing Oracle 12.2 RDBMS on OL7 or RHEL7 64-bit (x86-64) (Doc ID
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Modified: Jul 29, 2019 Type: BULLETIN

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Scope
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References

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Linux x86-64

PURPOSE

This note explains the requirements that need to be met for a successful installation of Oracle 12.2 RDBMS release On
Oracle Linux 7 (or higher 7.x version) or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 64-bit (x86-64). These guidelines apply to cluster
(RAC) or standalone / single instances.

It is NOT the purpose of this NOTE to repeat every "how-to" step that is presented in the Oracle Database 12.2
Installation Guide. For example this NOTE does not include how to create the Linux OS account named "oracle", nor does
it cover how to set environment variables. Both are adequately covered in "Oracle® Database Installation Guide 12c
Release 2 (12.2) for Linux"

SCOPE

This procedure is meant for those Planning / Installing Oracle Database 12.2 on Oracle Linux 7 (or higher 7.x version) or
RHEL 7.0 on the 64-bit (x86-64) platform. Since it is the expressed goal to keep Oracle Linux (OL) functionally IDENTICAL
to RHEL, this NOTE is also completely applicable to 64-bit (x86-64) OL 7.0

This procedure is not meant for those Planning / Installing Grid Infrastructure (GI) or any other Oracle products.

DETAILS

Requirements for installing Oracle Database 12.2 release 64-bit on OL7 64-bit or RHEL7 (x86_64)

Before you proceed with Installation, please take time to review every below requirement carefully to avoid any obvious
issues during Installation of binaries.

- Download the Oracle Database 12.2 Software

-After you download the Software, Verify the integrity of the Downloaded Software
Note 549617.1 How To Verify The Integrity Of A Patch/Software Download? [Video]

-If you have downloaded the Software on other Machine, please transfer the zip file on the Server being Installed using
Binary Mode and unzip with the Oracle Software user.

I. Hardware:

1. Minimum Hardware Requirements

a. Ensure that your system meets the following Physical Memory requirements:
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Minimum: 1 GB of RAM
Recommended: 2 GB of RAM or more

b. Swap space allocation relative to RAM

RAM Swap Space

Between 1 GB and 2 GB 1.5 times the size of the RAM
Between 2 GB and 16 GB Equal to the size of the RAM
More than 16 GB 16 GB

NOTE: The above recommendations (from the Oracle® Database Installation Guide 12c Release 2 (12.2) for Linux) are
MINIMUM recommendations for installations. Further RAM and swap space may be required to tune/improve RDBMS
performance.

c. 1.0 GB (1024MB) of disk space (and less than 2TB of disk space) in the /tmp directory.

d. If the free space available in the /tmp directory is less than what is required, then complete one of the following steps:
- Delete unnecessary files from the /tmp directory to meet the disk space requirement.
- Set the TMP and TMPDIR environment variables when setting the oracle user's environment.

e. Approximately 6.5 GB of local disk space for the Database Software Files.

f. If you intend to create a preconfigured database during the installation, then the file system (or file systems) that you
choose must have at least 2 GB of free disk space.
For production databases, you must estimate the disk space requirement depending on the use of the database.

2. Oracle Database is supported on ext2, ext3 and ext4 file systems (see Note:236826.1 for further information)

II. Software:

1. Certified Operating System :

Oracle Linux 7
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

a. For Minimal Linux Installation :

A minimal Linux installation option is either a custom installation where you select the Minimal option from Package Group
Selection, or where you deselect all packages except for the Base pack. A minimal Linux installation lacks many RPMs
required for database installation, so you must use an RPM package for your Oracle Linux release to install the required
packages. The package you use depends on your Linux release

b. For a Default Linux Installation

Oracle recommends that you install your Linux operating system with the default software packages (RPMs).
A default Linux installation includes most of the required packages and helps you limit manual verification of package
dependencies. Oracle recommends that you do not customize the RPMs during installation.

2. Kernel requirements :

The following kernels are supported:

Oracle Linux 7 with the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 3: 3.8.13-35.3.1.el7uek.x86_64 or later.

Oracle Linux 7.2 with the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 4: 4.1.12-32.2.3.el7uek.x86_64 or later.
Oracle Linux 7 with the Red Hat Compatible kernel: 3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64 or later.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: 3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64 or later.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1: 3.12.49-11.1 or later.

It is observed there are hang issues in RHEL 7 with many CPU cores and more RAM, due NUMA was enabled. As a work
around it is recommended to turn off NUMA.
Note 1508516.1 Is It Mandatory To Install UEK Kernel Under RHEL?

3. Oracle Universal Installer requires an X Window System (for example, libx).

The libx packages are part of a default Linux installation.

If you perform an install on a system with a reduced set of packages, then you must ensure that libx or a similar X
Window System package is installed
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4. At least 1 GB of space in the /tmp directory.

5. Runlevel : 3 or 5

6. Oracle User Environment Configuration Checklist :

For new installs, if you have not configured an oraInventory directory, then the installer creates an Oracle inventory that is
one directory level up from the Oracle base for the Oracle Grid Infrastructure install, and designates the installation
owner's primary group as the Oracle Inventory group.
The OINSTALL group must be the primary group of all Oracle software installation owners on the server. It should be
writable by any Oracle installation owner.
Oracle recommends that you create groups and user accounts required for your security plans before starting installation.
Installation owners have resource limits settings and other requirements.

If you have an existing Oracle software installation, and you are using the same user to install this installation, then unset
the following environment variables: $ORACLE_HOME,$ORA_NLS10, and $TNS_ADMIN, $ORACLE_BASE, $ORACLE_SID

By default, your operating system includes an entry in /etc/fstab to mount /dev/shm. However, if your Cluster Verification
Utility (CVU) or Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) checks fail, ensure that the /dev/shm mount area is of type tmpfs and is
mounted with the following options:
rw and exec permissions set on it
Without noexec or nosuid set on it

Set the default file mode creation mask (umask) to 022 in the shell startup file.

7. Storage Checklist for Oracle Database :

At least 7.5 GB for Oracle Database Enterprise Edition.

At least 7.5 GB for Oracle Database Standard Edition 2.

8. Kernel Parameter Settings :

Minimum Operating System Resource Parameter Settings

semmsl 250
semmns 32000
semopm 100
semmni 128
shmall 40 percent of the size of physical memory in pages /proc/sys/kernel/shmall
shmmax Half the size of physical memory in bytes /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
shmmni 4096
panic_on_oops 1
file-max 6815744
aio-max-nr 1048576
ip_local_port_range Minimum: 9000
Maximum: 65500
rmem_default 262144
rmem_max 4194304
wmem_default 262144
wmem_max 1048576

UDP and TCP Kernel Parameters :

The /etc/sysctl.conf file has been deprecated in OL7 or RHEL7. Reference for Changing Kernel Parameter Values:
https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/12.2/ladbi/changing-kernel-parameter-
values.html#GUID-FB0CC366-61C9-4AA2-9BE7-233EB6810A31

9. a.) If the shell limits and kernel parameters are not set as recommended by Oracle, then during installation OUI will
generate fixup script which does the following tasks:

If necessary sets kernel parameters to values required for successful installation, including:
Shared memory parameters.
Open file descriptor and UDP send/receive parameters.
Creates and sets permissions on the Oracle Inventory (central inventory) directory.
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Creates or reconfigures primary and secondary group memberships for the installation owner, if necessary, for the Oracle
Inventory directory and the operating system privileges groups.
Sets shell limits if necessary to required values.

Use the following reference to set parameters manually if you cannot use the fixup scripts :

https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/12.2/ladbi/minimum-parameter-settings-for-
installation.html#GUID-CDEB89D1-4D48-41D9-9AC2-6AD9B0E944E3
https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/12.2/ladbi/checking-resource-limits-for-oracle-software-
installation-users.html#GUID-293874BD-8069-470F-BEBF-A77C06618D5A

b.) Verify the latest version of PAM is loaded, then add or edit the following line in the /etc/pam.d/login file, if it does not
already exist:
session required pam_limits.so

10. The following packages (or later versions) must be installed: :

bc
binutils-2.23.52.0.1-12.el7 (x86_64)
compat-libcap1-1.10-3.el7 (x86_64)
compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-71.el7 (i686)
compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-71.el7 (x86_64)
glibc-2.17-36.el7 (i686)
glibc-2.17-36.el7 (x86_64)
glibc-devel-2.17-36.el7 (i686)
glibc-devel-2.17-36.el7 (x86_64)
ksh
libaio-0.3.109-9.el7 (i686)
libaio-0.3.109-9.el7 (x86_64)
libaio-devel-0.3.109-9.el7 (i686)
libaio-devel-0.3.109-9.el7 (x86_64)
libgcc-4.8.2-3.el7 (i686)
libgcc-4.8.2-3.el7 (x86_64)
libstdc++-4.8.2-3.el7 (i686)
libstdc++-4.8.2-3.el7 (x86_64)
libstdc++-devel-4.8.2-3.el7 (i686)
libstdc++-devel-4.8.2-3.el7 (x86_64)
libxcb-1.9-5.el7 (i686)
libxcb-1.9-5.el7 (x86_64)
libX11-1.6.0-2.1.el7 (i686)
libX11-1.6.0-2.1.el7 (x86_64)
libXau-1.0.8-2.1.el7 (i686)
libXau-1.0.8-2.1.el7 (x86_64)
libXi-1.7.2-1.el7 (i686)
libXi-1.7.2-1.el7 (x86_64)
libXtst-1.2.2-1.el7 (i686)
libXtst-1.2.2-1.el7 (x86_64)
libXrender (i686)
libXrender (x86_64)
libXrender-devel (i686)
libXrender-devel (x86_64)
make-3.82-19.el7 (x86_64)
net-tools-2.0-0.17.20131004git.el7 (x86_64) (for Oracle RAC and Oracle Clusterware)
nfs-utils-1.3.0-0.21.el7.x86_64 (for Oracle ACFS)
smartmontools-6.2-4.el7 (x86_64)
sysstat-10.1.5-1.el7 (x86_64)

ADDITIONAL NOTES

1. Starting from Oracle Database 12.1 32-bit Oracle Database Software is not available.

2. Supported distributions of the 32-bit (x86) Oracle Database Client Linux OS can run on on AMD64/EM64T and Intel
Processor Chips that adhere to the x86_64 architecture. Oracle 32-bit Database Client running on AMD64/EM64T with 64-

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bit OS is expected to be supported, but is NOT covered by this NOTE.

3. Asynchronous I/O on ext2 and ext3 file systems is supported if your scsi/fc driver supports that functionality.

Note : Asynchronous I/O on Ext4 file system is supported with Oracle 10g onwards on OEL5.6 and later.
Reference : Oracle Linux, Filesystem & I/O Type Supportability (Note 279069.1)[This section is not visible to customers.]

4. No extra patch is required for the DIRECTIO support for x86_64.

5. No LD_ASSUME_KERNEL value should be used with the Oracle Database 12.2 product.

6. The following rpm command can be used to distinguish between a 32-bit or 64-bit package.

# rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE} (%{ARCH})\n" | grep glibc-devel

glibc-devel-2.12-1.7.el6 (x86_64)
glibc-devel-2.12-1.7.el6 (i686)

7. Oracle Universal Installer requires an X Window System (for example, libx). The libx packages are part of a default
Linux installation. If you perform an install on a system with a reduced set of packages, then you must ensure that libx or
a similar X Window System package is installed.

8. The Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel can be installed on x86-64 servers running either Oracle Linux or Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. As of Oracle Linux 5 Update 6, the Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel is the default system kernel. An
x86 (32-bit) release of Oracle Linux including the Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel is available with Oracle Linux 5
update 7 and later.

9. 32-bit packages (i686 rpm) in these requirements lists are needed only if you intend to use 32-bit client applications to
access 64-bit servers.

10. Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2) and later does not require the compiler packages gcc and gcc-c++
on Oracle Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Oracle Database or Oracle Grid Infrastructure
installations.

11. By default, RHEL 7 x86_64 Linux is installed with SELinux as "enforcing". This is fine for the Oracle Database 12.2
installation process.

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