Pre-packaged Oracle VM's for Developers

Interesting. I remember that in order to make development effort faster, we used to make images of our development boxes with all the required software / applications installed on it. This was pre-virtualization era. But with virtualization, it became a common norm and easier. Now Oracle has also started packaging different development stack on a pre-built Oracle VM which one can simply download and start using it.

All you need to do is install VirtualBox to get these pre-built VM's working. Currently Oracle has the following development stacks bundled in a VM with more coming in future -

• Java Development
• Database App Development 
• SOA & BPM Development
• Oracle WebLogic Server Hands-on
• Oracle WebCenter Portal Framework 11g Hands-on
• Oracle Solaris 11 Express Developer
• Oracle Solaris 11 Express Network Virtualization 
• Oracle Solaris 10 9/10
• Enterprise PHP Development
• Oracle Tuxedo Web Application Server Demo

Refer to the following link for components that have been bundled in the above listed VM's and download them. Go download and speed up your development effort.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/community/developer-vm/index.html

In a previous post, I had covered the Oracle VM images with pre-installed Oracle Database (10g and 11g) and Oracle RAC (10g, 11g, and 11gR2) software.

Pre-packaged Oracle VM Images for Oracle Database and RAC

Oracle has made available pre-configured virtual machines containing pre-installed Oracle enterprise software stacks. These Oracle VM templates can be downloaded from Oracle's E-Delivery site.

Pre-packaged VM’s would greatly useful if you need to quickly test out or do a POC etc. You would anyways download the software so why not download a pre-installed VM image and get started immediately as opposed to going through painstaking process of installing it unless your POC is about installation and configuration.

All you would need is Oracle VM already installed on your server/desktop. Then you can simply download the VM images, import and deploy the template VM’s. However you do need to provide some basic information such IP (DHCP or static), passwords etc. and you will have a fully installed / configured Oracle environment ready without having to install products from scratch.

Currently, I could find the following templates for Oracle Database and RAC on both 32-bit and 64-bit (x86 platforms). All of these are based on Oracle Enterprise Linux version 5.2 onward. No pre-packaged VM’s are available for Windows or other UNIX flavors.

Database VM Templates for x86 (32-bit)

URL - https://edelivery.oracle.com/EPD/Download/get_form?egroup_aru_number=10551276

 

RAC VM templates for x86 (32-bit)

 

URL - https://edelivery.oracle.com/EPD/Download/get_form?egroup_aru_number=12356456

 

RAC 11gR2 Templates for x86 (32 bit)

 

URL - https://edelivery.oracle.com/EPD/Download/get_form?egroup_aru_number=12918773

 

Database VM Templates for x86 (64-bit)

 

URL - https://edelivery.oracle.com/EPD/Download/get_form?egroup_aru_number=10551278

RAC VM templates for x86 (64-bit)

URL - https://edelivery.oracle.com/EPD/Download/get_form?egroup_aru_number=12356458

 

RAC 11gR2 Templates for x86 (64 bit)

 

URL - https://edelivery.oracle.com/EPD/Download/get_form?egroup_aru_number=12918775

There are pre-installed/configured VM’s for other products as well e.g. Grid control, Fusion middle-ware, E-business suite etc. Get them @ Oracle E Delivery - https://edelivery.oracle.com/EPD/GetUserInfo/get_form?caller=LinuxWelcome