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Oracle says you can stand up an EnterpriseOne environment in about 3 days using their Oracle VM Templates. Anyone have success doing so? PS: Anyone in production on this type of setup?
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Eric
Stand up an environment in 3 days? What are they smoking? We are in the process of standing one up that will go live in January. It is taking MUCH MUCH longer.
1) It took our linux guru 10 days to setup OVM. There were quite a few back and forths with Oracle to get drivers right
2) It took our Linux admin several days to just get the templates to install correctly.
3) It is taking us the better part of a month to configure the six batch and weblogic servers.
4) The batch servers were fairly easy to configure after the first one.
5) The weblogic server templates install weblogic standard, not weblogic enterprise. If you want full clustering, you need to upgrade to weblogic enterprise edition (not a small chunk of change). The JDE install documents assumes that you are using weblogic enterprise. That is NOT part of the red stack. Don't use the clustering piece of weblogic (it's there in standard) unless you ALSO upgrade your license to enterprise edition. If you use the clustering, expect a bill from Oracle after your next Oracle audit.
6) We are planning on working with one of our architects to setup our F5s to cluster the farm of weblogic servers this morning, and attempt to cluster the batch servers.
7) Setting up active/active batch server clustering is NOT documented. It is a field innovation, not an Oracle procedure. A few of the top CNCs on this list know how to do this (Shoutout to Colin and Jon). We are muddling our way through it.
8) OVM has some stability issues and support issues. We lost the better part of a week waiting for Oracle to get back to our Linux guy. Our system crashed twice and took some tweaking to get back up. We had to jump up and down to get Oracle's attention on this.
9) We are standing up Oracle 11gR2 on an Exalogic server. That is a totally seperate effort that has been on-going since early July with a team of DBAs and Oracle consultants. Still not ready to go yet.
10) And one other minor detail, we are Windows, SQL, XE guys. So there is a minor little learing curve to get up to Oracle, linux, 9.0, server manager, and Weblogic.
So yea, three days, no problem.....