E-Business Suite Release 12.2.4 Oracle VM Template

For those who love to experience latest on E-Business Suite here is the good news… Oracle has released its latest E-Business Suite 12.2.4 on VM Virtual Appliance. That means a preinstalled VISION / PROD environment ready to be used. Isn’t this a great!!!

The Virtual appliances provides full software stack, which includes Oracle Linux 6.5 operating system, Oracle E-Business Suite and additional required technology components.  These can be easily imported into Oracle VM Manager deploy E-Business Suite Linux 64-bit environments on compatible server-class machines running Oracle VM Server OR imported into Oracle VM VirtualBox to create virtual machines on a desktop / laptop. Just logon to https://edelivery.oracle.com/linux and select product pack as Oracle VM templates.

There are multiple appliances / VMs to choose from

• Single Node Vision Demo 
• Vision Demo Database Tier  
• Production (PROD) Database Tier
• Application Tier
• Sparse Application Tier

These appliances can be used to support the following scenarios:

• Single node E-Business Suite 12.2.4 installation: Choose the single node Vision Demo virtual appliance (Option 1 above) to create a unified virtual machine with the EBS 12.2.4 database and application tiers.
• Multi-node E-Business Suite 12.2.4 installation: Create a multi-node system using the database virtual appliance of choice (either Vision or PROD) and the application tier virtual appliance. That is, Option 2 or 3 above, followed by Option 4.  You can then add secondary application tiers using Option 5.
• Operating system-only installation (Oracle Linux 6.5): The sparse application tier virtual appliance (Option 5) includes the necessary operating system packages, kernel parameter settings, and users (oracle and applmgr) required to install Oracle E-Business Suite, providing benefit for customers who plan to use Rapid Install for their 12.2.4 installation.

Technology Components :-

Operating System

All appliances include the Oracle Linux 6 Update 5 operating system.

Database

The Single Node Vision Demo, Vision Demo Database Tier, and Production (PROD) Database Tier appliances include the following:

• Database: 11.2.0.4
• CPU Level: July 2014

Application Tier

The Single Node Vision Demo and Application Tier appliances include the following application tier components:

• Application Tier Code Level: AD and TXK Delta 5 plus Bundle Fixes
• Oracle Forms and Reports: 10.1.2.3.0
• Oracle WebLogic Server: 10.3.6.0
• Web Tier Components: 11.1.1.6
• JDK: JDK 1.7 build 1.7.0_67-b01
• Java Plugin: J2SE 1.7
• CPU Level: July 2014

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