Increase VirtualBox Hard Disk (VDI) Size

1. Shutdown the VM for which you want to increase the hard disk size.
2. Make sure PATH environment variable has VirtualBox location included:
C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox
3. In the command prompt, cd to location of .vdi file for the virtual machine and execute below command (size is in MB):
VBoxManage modifyhd ocm1.vdi --resize 30720
0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
This takes care of increasing size of vdi to 30GB.

http://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/extending-lvm

Install Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0(32-bit)

 

Documentation for Oracle Database 11gR2: http://www.oracle.com/pls/db112/homepage

Database Quick Installation Guide for Linux x86

Database Installation Guide for Linux

We will directly jump to creating OS groups and user for Database software installation.

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/install.112/e24321/pre_install.htm#BABHHEJD

1. OCM1 VM was configured to use DHCP for IP and hostname. It was showing localhost.localdomain as hostname.

2. I changed hostname using system-config-network and updated hostname to ocm1.example.com

3. I left DHCP for IP address assignment.

4. Create below groups for database. I am not going to create ASM related groups yet.

/usr/sbin/groupadd oinstall

/usr/sbin/groupadd -g 502 dba

/usr/sbin/groupadd -g 503 oper

5. Create software owner i.e. oracle user:

/usr/sbin/useradd -u 501 -g oinstall -G dba oracle

passwd oracle

6. Create Oracle Base Directory

as root:

# mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle

# chown -R oracle:oinstall /u01/app/oracle

# chmod -R 775 /u01/app/oracle

**added below lines because of INS-32031 and INS-32033… See details http://vishalorcl.blogspot.com/2013/09/ins-32031-ins-32033-while-installing.html

# mkdir –p /u01/app/oraInventory

# chown –R oracle:oinstall /u01/app/oraInventory

# chmod –R 775 /u01/app/oraInventory

7. Create software staging directory

as root:

# mkdir -p /sw

# chown -R oracle:oinstall /sw

# chmod -R 775 /sw

8. Login as oracle user and download “Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 (32-bit)”

11/10/11: Patch Set 11.2.0.3 for Linux, Solaris, Windows, AIX and HP-UX Itanium is now available on support.oracle.com. Note: it is a full installation (you do not need to download 11.2.0.1 first).

Download patchset 10404530 

(****OLD*** I realize the initial disk allocation of 12GB would not be enough as 11.2.0.3 software itself is 6GB. I currently have 4.5 GB free, so I would have to increase the hard disk size to 30GB so that I dont have to increase it so often as I will have to create a database later. Follow Increase VirtualBox Hard Disk (VDI) size )

9. unzip all the files in the same folder

10. It will generate: client, database, deinstall, examples, gateways, grid

11. Go to database and start OUI using:

./runInstaller

Screenshots:

==> Fixed this (http://vishalorcl.blogspot.com/2013/09/ins-32031-ins-32033-while-installing.html )

==> Installed all these missing packages using “yum install <packagename>”

 

11.2.0.3 software install is complete.

Export Virtual Appliance

Virtual Machine OCM1 will be exported as appliance so that I can import in future for creating another virtual machine and to avoid to do all the installation again.

-Shutdown the VM OCM1

File -> Export Appliance

Create Virtual Machine “OCM” & Install Linux Guest OS

  

 

   

Add two more virtual hard disks to ocm VM.

Similarly add ocmhd3. After adding ocmhd3, you will see:

Now add additional nework adapter: We will have 2 or more network adapters for each VM.

1) One with network mode of NAT

2)Another with network mode of Host-only Adapter

This is how it will look. Check storage and network.

 

Download OS ISO image from:

https://edelivery.oracle.com/linux

Select below as Exam environment suggests that the lab would be running Oracle Linux 5.4 32-bit.

V17793-01.zip will be downloaded. Extract it. It will extract below file:

Enterprise-R5-U4-Server-i386-dvd.iso

 

Click the CD icon and provide ISO image downloaded for Linux OS.

Then click “Start” for ocm.

 

          

  Few more tasks:

1. Don’t forget to install guest additions for linux to make sure higher screen resolution is available as well as some other features. Follow http://vishalorcl.blogspot.com/2013/09/install-virtualbox-linux-guest.html

2. Install oracle-validated rpm using yum install oracle-validated. Check the output here::

When it is installed, the Oracle Pre-Install RPM or Oracle Validated RPM does the following:

• Automatically downloads and installs any additional RPM packages needed for installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle Database, and resolves any dependencies

• Creates an oracle user, and creates the oraInventory (oinstall) and OSDBA (dba) groups for that user

  [root@ocm ~]# id oracle
  uid=54321(oracle) gid=54321(oinstall) groups=54321(oinstall),54322(dba) context=root:system_r:unconfined_t:SystemLow-SystemHigh

 

• As needed, sets sysctl.conf settings, system startup parameters, and driver parameters to values based on recommendations from the Oracle RDBMS Pre-Install program

• Sets hard and soft resource limits

• Sets other recommended parameters, depending on your kernel version

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/install.112/e47689/pre_install.htm#BABFBIDF

3. Modify /etc/hosts as shown below: 

[root@ocm ~]# cat /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1               ocm.vp.com ocm localhost.localdomain localhost
::1             localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6

[root@ocm ~]# cat /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
192.168.56.101 ocm.vp.com ocm
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
::1             localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6

VM OCM is ready for use.