Summary: Installing Oracle Database 19c and OBIEE 12c on Windows and Linux VMs in OCI
If you have been following my LinkedIn over the past month, you might have noticed that I have been sharing some tutorial blog posts that I have written. For many, this might seem random. Let me give some context.
I was recently hired as a cloud solution engineer at Oracle, where I work in pre-sales in the data analytics and AI pillar. In a nutshell, potential customers come to my team when they are strongly considering selecting OCI as a cloud provider for their businesses. It is my team’s responsibility to show potential customers what is possible and what could be if they take the next steps and decide to select OCI as a cloud provider. We accomplish this by presenting demos in the cloud. After a deal is signed and closed, our relationship with the customer does not stop there. It continues. Every step of the way, my team is there to support the customer, especially when it comes to what we like to call the “growing pains” associated with switching cloud providers and/or integrating OCI with their on-premises computer servers and/or other cloud providers.
I am still currently in training and am learning the ins-and-outs of Oracle Cloud. My manager wanted us to appreciate OCI and to understand thoroughly why it is so much easier to use and better in nearly all situations than an on-premise computer server, but what better way is there to understand the benefits of cloud than by experiencing first-hand why on-premise computer servers can be such a hassle?
The exercise was genius — create some virtual machines in OCI, treat these VMs as if they are on-premise servers, and install Oracle Database 19c and OBIEE 12c on the VMs. Sounds simple enough, right?
Nope…not in the slightest. And the documentation to do all of this? Few and far between. I believe that it has been almost one month to the day since I started this journey…and I am just now finishing these installations. This is what motivated me to write these blogs. I wanted to make sure that nobody else unnecessarily spends a month doing these installations. I have written blog posts documenting this entire process, from beginning to end. Each blog is extremely detailed and includes lots of pictures. Almost anybody should be able to follow them. I consolidated all of these links into a final blogpost. My hope is that this final blog will act as a homepage for you and that you can refer to it if you are needing to install Oracle Database 19c and/or OBIEE 12c on your on-premise servers.
Here are the links to my Linux blogs
- Step 1: Creating a Linux VM in OCI and Remotely Accessing its GUI in NoMachine
- Step 2: Oracle Database 19c Installation on Linux
- Step 3: Install and Configure OBIEE 12c on Linux VM
