Installing Oracle Fusion Applications: Where to start

On 22 May 2011 Oracle Fusion Applications (Beta version) was available for download on eDelivery.

What is Oracle Fusion Applications:

'Designed from the ground up using the latest technology advances and incorporating the best practices gathered from Oracle's thousands of customers, Oracle Fusion Applications are 100% open-standards-based business applications that set a new standard for the way we innovate, work, and adopt technology' (www.oracle.com)

To give you an impression of the end product see this demo.

To give an idea of the infrastructure of Oracle Fusion Applications, see the next picture.

This post and all posting still to come, will describe the installation steps to install Oracle Fusion Applications.

So where to start with the installation? First you need to download the installation files from eDelivery. On eDelivery you can find the sources via:

After hitting the Go button, you will see all the installation files needed to install Oracle Fusion Applications.

Start by downloading the 11 installation DVDs and the Documentation Library, marked by the red squares.

Oracle Fusion Applications is supported on the following platforms:

• Linux x86-64 (64 bit)
• Oracle Solaris SPARC (64 bit)
• Oracle Solaris x86-64 (64 bit)
• IBM AIX on POWER Systems (64 bit)
• Microsoft Windows x64 (64 bit)

However, at this time only installation files for Linux (64 bit) are available. To go for a full Oracle solution, I will use Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 Update 6 as OS.  Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 Update 6 can also be downloaded from eDelivery.

The main sequence for installing Oracle Fusion Applications is as follows:

1. Download and stage the Oracle Fusion Applications software and install provisioning framework


2. Install and configure Oracle Identity Management components


3. Install a transaction database


4. Create a provisioning plan for the new environment


5. Provision a new environment


6. Complete required post installation tasks

We have now completed the first part of step 1, downloading Oracle Fusion Applications software. The installation manual describes a tool - Oracle Fusion Applications Installation Directory Utility (IDU) - which should be used to unpack and stage the software. However this tool is not part of the the installation DVDs. Instead (after installing Linux) copy the 11 DVDs to a directory and submit

unzip *.zip

This will unzip all DVDs and create a following installation directory

It looks like Oracle has shipped all their software that might be needed. Most of the installation files are Fusion Middleware sources. The installation manual starts off by describing different versions for Fusion Middleware (11.1.1.4, 10.3.4) etc and continues with all Fusion Middleware on version 11.1.1.5. Most of the installation sources for Fusion Middleware shipped on the 11 DVDs come with version 11.1.1.4, while this should be 11.1.1.5!

At this point we have completed step 1.

For step two, we need to install and configure Oracle Identity Management. The installation files for Oracle Identity Management need to be at 11.1.1.5 and versions shipped with the 11 DVDs are not at this level. We need to download the following components from eDelivery and/or Technet (trust me, I had to find out the hard way!):

• Oracle Database 11.2.0.2


• Weblogic Server 10.3.5


• Webtier 11.1.1.2


• Webtier 11.1.1.5 patchset


• Identity Management 11.1.1.2


• Identity Management 11.1.1.5 patchset


• SOA Suite 11.1.1.5


• Oracle Identity and Access Management 11.1.1.5


• Oracle Fusion Middleware Repository Creation Utility 11.1.1.5


• Oracle JRockit JDK R28.1.3 for Java SE 6 with JRockit Mission Control 4.0.1 for Linux x86-64

Note that you need to download these installation files for the correct OS, in our case Linux 64 bit!

Now we have downloaded all the installation files and are ready to install and setup IDM.

In my next post I will first describe how to install Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 Update 6 to host IDM.

Note that my intention is to create a small sandbox to be able to get a taste of the 'Fusion vibe'. My installation will be the bare minimum and not a high available system. For example, just to install IDM you will need at least 7 high available servers. I will install all Fusion Middleware on one server and Oracle Fusion Applications (DB) on another server.


At the time of writing this post Fusion Applications was still a Beta release. Now Fusion Applications is general available as final state. See this post for further details.