GDS Software Installation

Learn about the steps involved to set up the required GDS components so you can manage, balance, and optimize client connections and high availability.

The global service manager (GSM) is the central component of the Global Data Services framework, and you must install the global service manager using separate media. No other Oracle software is required to install and run the global service manager.

You can install the global service manager on a system where you have other Oracle products installed, but you must install the global service manager in a separate Oracle home directory. You can install more than one global service manager on a single system, but each global service manager must have a separate Oracle home directory. For optimal performance, deploy the global service manager on a dedicated host, especially if your Global Data Services configuration includes many databases.

You must install at least one global service manager for each Global Data Services region. Global service managers can be hosted on physical or virtual environments. For high availability, Oracle recommends installing multiple (typically three) global service managers in each region, and run each on a separate host.

Oracle Universal Installer does not currently support installing software on multiple hosts. You must install each global service manager on its own host.

The Global Data Services administrator installs the global service manager. The Global Data Services administrator is responsible for the following tasks:

Administering global service managers
Administering the Global Data Services catalog
Administering regions and database pools

The Global Data Services administrator must have an operating system user account on all hosts where global service managers are deployed, and you must run the installation under that user account. The installation must not be run by a root user.

Parent topic: Installation and Configuration