System Requirements

This section includes some general requirements for your Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub installation. For requirements on other products you need to install, see the documentation that came with them.

The general requirements topics include:

• Operating Systems
  
• Hardware
  

Operating Systems

To get the most current information on the Oracle LSH technology stack, see My Oracle Support article 180430.1, Oracle Life Sciences Applications Supported Technology Stacks.

This section includes the folllowing topics:

• Database Tier
  
• Application Tier
  
• Clients
  

Database Tier

The Oracle LSH database tier can be installed on the following platforms:

• Linux x86 (32-Bit)
  • Oracle Enterprise Linux 5
  • Oracle Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise AS/ES 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise AS/ES 6
• Linux x86-64 (64-Bit)
  • Oracle Enterprise Linux 5
  • Oracle Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise AS/ES 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise AS/ES 6
• AIX 6.1 (64-Bit)
• Oracle Solaris 10 on SPARC (64-Bit)
• Oracle Solaris 11 on SPARC (64-Bit)

Application Tier

You can install the Oracle LSH application tier on the following platforms:

• Linux x86 (32-Bit)
  • Oracle Enterprise Linux 5
  • Oracle Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise AS/ES 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise AS/ES 6
• Linux x86-64 (64-Bit)
  • Oracle Enterprise Linux 5
  • Oracle Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise AS/ES 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise AS/ES 6
• HP Itanium 11i v3 (11.31) (64-bit)
• AIX 6.1 (64-Bit)
• Oracle Solaris 10 on SPARC (64-Bit)
• Oracle Solaris 11 on SPARC (64-Bit)

Clients

Oracle LSH supports the following combinations of operating systems and browsers for clients:

• Chrome: 78.0.3904.97 Official Build (64 bit)
• Firefox: 68.3.0 ESR (32 bit)

For Oracle JRE, Oracle LSH supports the same versions as Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.3. To get the latest information:

1. Go to My Oracle Support at https://support.oracle.com and sign in.
2. Click the Certifications tab.
3. In the Search area, enter Oracle E-Business Suite for Product and 12.1.3 for Release, and click Search.
4. In the Search Results page, expand Management and Development Tools.
5. Check the Oracle JRE versions displayed and click the link to see more.

Hardware

Oracle Applications 12.1.1 and Oracle Database 11.2.0.4 can be installed on the same or different servers.

In addition, you need one computer running on Windows for use in installing Oracle Thesaurus Management System (Oracle TMS). You will not need this computer for Oracle LSH after installing Oracle TMS except to install any Oracle TMS patches that may be required in the future. See Installing the Oracle TMS Database Tier. You need at least one Windows computer if you plan to use Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) to define Business Areas and create data visualizations (OBIEE Answers); see Integrating Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Editions (OBIEE) for Visualizations. You can use the same Windows computer for OBIEE and Oracle TMS.

Note:

Oracle LSH does not support a Windows server for SAS.

In an installation where the application and database tiers are installed on different computers, those computers are typically connected by a local area network (LAN), while the application-tier computer is connected to clients in a wide area network (WAN).

Using Real Application Clusters (RAC) to install the database over several nodes is optional.

Oracle LSH uses Oracle XML Publisher (which is bundled with Oracle Applications) to generate PDF-format Report Sets. If you plan to use this feature and if your Report Sets are very large, you may want to dedicate one node to Oracle XML Publisher processing.

For system hardware requirements see the documentation for each component; see Assemble the Documentation.

In addition:

• The TCP/IP network connection to the server should be at least at 1 GB.
• Be sure to allow for growth in database storage capacity.
• Oracle recommends installing a test environment as similar as possible to the production environment, including all operating system and other patches and updates.