1 Minimum Hardware and Software Requirements

This chapter describes the minimum hardware and software requirements for installing Oracle Health Sciences Information Gateway (OHIG).

This chapter includes the following sections:

Hardware Requirements
Software Requirements
Adding a VM Server

1.1 Hardware Requirements

OHIG relies on the prior installation of Oracle VM Manager Release 2.2, Oracle VM Server Release 2.2, and Oracle 11g Database. OHIG inherits the hardware requirements of these components. See the “Hardware Requirements” section in the component installation guides for more information.

With release 1.2 OHIG now supports 32 and 64 bits.

In addition, each OHIG Virtual Machine requires a minimum of:

2 GB (2048 MB) of RAM
12 GB of Disk Space
16 GB of disk space for 64 bit VMs

1.2 Software Requirements

OHIG relies on the prior installation of Oracle VM Manager Release 2.2, Oracle VM Server Release 2.2, and Oracle 11g Database. OHIG inherits the software requirements of these components. See the “Software Requirements” section in the component installation guides for more information.

Downloading and Installing Oracle VM Manager Release 2.2
Downloading and Installing Oracle VM Server Release 2.2
Downloading and Installing the Oracle 11g Database

1.2.1 Downloading and Installing Oracle VM Manager Release 2.2

The Oracle VM Manager provides the user interface, which is a standard ADF (Application Development Framework) web application, to manage Oracle VM Servers. It manages virtual machine lifecycle, including creating virtual machines from installation media or from a virtual machine template, deleting, powering off, uploading, deployment and live migration of virtual machines. It manages resources, including ISO files, virtual machine templates, and sharable hard disks.

To download Oracle VM Manager:

Navigate to http://edelivery.oracle.com/linux.
Enter your Registration information, accept the Agreement Terms by checking the checkboxes, then click Continue.
Select Oracle VM from the Select a Product Pack drop-down menu.
Select x86 32 bit from the "Platform" drop-down menu.
Click Go.
Click the Oracle VM 2.2.0 Media Pack (Part B56819-01) link.
Click the Download button for the following:
- Oracle VM Manager 2.2.0 (Part Number V18419-01)
Save the files to your system.

To install Oracle VM Manager:

Follow the instructions available at:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E15458_01/doc.22/e15439/toc.htm

Caution:

To avoid corruption we recommend allowing VM Manager to complete status transitions, by allowing interim statuses such as "Importing", "Creating", "Initializing", and "Shutting Down" to complete, before initiating other actions within the VM Manager.

1.2.2 Downloading and Installing Oracle VM Server Release 2.2

The Oracle VM Server allows a self-contained virtualization environment designed to provide a lightweight, secure, server-based platform for running virtual machines. Oracle VM Server is based upon an updated version of the underlying Xen hypervisor technology, and includes Oracle VM Agent.

To download Oracle VM Server:

Navigate to http://edelivery.oracle.com/linux.
Enter your Registration information, accept the Agreement Terms by checking the checkboxes, then click Continue.
Select Oracle VM from the Select a Product Pack drop-down menu.
Select x86 32 bit from the "Platform" drop-down menu.
Click Go.
Click the Oracle VM 2.2.0 Media Pack (Part B56819-01) link.
Click the Download button for the following:
- Oracle VM Server 2.2.0 (Part Number V18336-01)
Save the files to your system.

To install Oracle VM Server:

Follow the instructions available at:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E15458_01/doc.22/e15442/toc.htm

1.2.3 Downloading and Installing the Oracle 11g Database

To download the Oracle 11g database:

Navigate to http://edelivery.oracle.com.
Enter your Registration information, accept the Agreement Terms by checking the checkboxes, then click Continue.
Select Oracle Database from the Select a Product Pack drop-down menu.
Enter the appropriate Platform, then click Go.

Note:
The part number will change depending on the Platform you select.
Select the Oracle Database 11g option.
Click the Download button, then save the zip file to your system.

To install the Oracle 11g Database:

Follow the instructions in the Readme file located on the zip file.

Note:

Oracle 11g is also available as a VM template (see Appendix A, "References" for more information.)

1.3 Adding a VM Server

Prior to installing the OHIG Gateway and Adapter VM templates you must:

Create a VM Server Pool on the VM Manager.
Add a VM Server to the VM Manager.

Please see the following documentation for more information:
- VM Manager User Guide 2.2, Section 3.2, "Creating a Server Pool"
- VM Manager User Guide 2.2, Section 4.1, "Adding a Server"