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# 3 System Requirements

Various database and application components of Oracle Product Lifecycle Analytics outlined in the chapter Overview of Oracle Product Lifecycle Analytics on page 1 may be deployed in different hardware/machine configurations. This depends on performance criteria set based on the source (Agile PLM or Agile PLM for Process) database size, volume of data changes in the source database, IT network and infrastructure constraints, and business requirements. The amount of time required to complete an installation depends on the complexity of your deployment configuration.

This chapter describes the minimum software and hardware requirements for the Oracle Product Lifecycle Analytics installation.

## 3.1 Software Requirements for New Installation of OPLA

If you are installing OPLA for the first time, the table below lists all the software requirements for this type of OPLA installation.

Software Component | Name | Version
--- | --- | ---
Browsers | Internet Explorer | Refer to the Oracle Business Intelligence Infrastructure Installation and Configuration Guide for supported versions.
Firefox
Safari
Oracle Business Intelligence - BI server and Presentation services | Enterprise Edition | 11.1.1.6.3+ 11.1.1.7.x 11.1.1.9.0 12.2.1.0.0 12.2.1.1.0 12.2.1.3.0
Database server | Oracle Enterprise Edition | 11gR2 (11.2.0.3+) 12cR1(12.1.0.1+) 12cR2 (12.2.0.1)
Microsoft SQL Server (Agile PLM for Process only) | 2005 SP2 or higher, 2008 SP1 or higher, 2008 R2, 2012 R2
Data Integration Component | Oracle Data Integrator | 11.1.1.7.x 11.1.1.9.0 12.1.3.0.0 12.2.1.0.0 12.2.1.1.0 12.2.1.2.0 12.2.1.2.6 12.2.1.3.0
Software Development Package | Java Development Kit | 1.7 1.8
Operating Systems | Microsoft Windows Server | 2008 R2 2012 2012 R2
Oracle Enterprise Linux | 7.2, 7, 6, 5 (x86-64)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux | 6, 5 (x86-64)
SUSE Linux | 11 (x86-64)
Oracle Solaris | 11, 10 (SPARC 64, x86-64)
AIX | 7, 6 (POWER 64-bit)
HP-UX | 11 (Itanium64)
Data Source | Agile PLM Releases | 9.3.5.1, 9.3.5.2, 9.3.5.3, 9.3.5.4, 9.3.5.5, 9.3.6.1, 9.3.6.2, 9.3.6.3, 9.3.6.4, 9.3.6.5, 9.2.2.4, 9.3.x, 9.3.0.1, 9.3.0.2, 9.3.0.3, 9.3.1, 9.3.1.1, 9.3.1.2. 9.3.2, 9.3.3, 9.3.4, 9.3.5, 9.3.6
Agile PLM for Process | 6.1, 6.1.1, 6.2, 6.2.1
***Oracle Business Intelligence may have some restrictions on a 64-bit platform. Refer to the Oracle Business Intelligence Infrastructure Installation and Configuration Guide for additional details.

Higher patch releases or family pack releases within a minor release of OBIEE, ODI, Oracle Database, Agile PLM, and Agile PLM for Process listed in this document are also supported.

Note: ODI Studio is not supported on Solaris, AIX and HP_UX for ODI 11g &12c. Users must use a Windows/Linux machine to run ETLs.

## 3.2 Installation Notes

1. Make sure that sufficient disk space is available on the server(s) before you begin the installation of OPLA which includes both the database and ETL components.

2. It is recommended to have dedicated servers for OPLA. Try to avoid installing any other software which may cause conflict or consume a lot of disk space on the systems where OPLA is installed.

3. Do not use the OPLA database server as a Primary Domain Controller (PDC) or Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server.

4. Do not enable Disk Compression on OPLA database servers.

5. Disk compression should be disabled.

6. Virus protection should be disabled. If virus protection is enabled, components used in the Installer can be falsely identified as being infected and lock the installation. You can turn on virus protection after the installation is complete.

We recommend that the computer systems, on which you install Oracle Product Lifecycle Analytics and the Oracle Database, have at least two physical drives or two disk partitions. This enables you to install the Operating system and the Oracle installation components on separate drives/partitions, thus ensuring better performance.

Note: Install OPLA software on the database server. The DB client based installation is NOT certified by OPLA. The database server version must be the same for both Agile Source and OPLA.

## 3.3 Hardware Requirements

When you choose a hardware configuration, it is important to consider details such as the total number of users, the number of concurrent users, the size of your database, network and I/O configurations for optimal data throughputs, the number of objects processed per day, and the number of transactions in the database.

The following are the minimum hardware requirements for the Database Server that hosts the Data Mart Database schema components (Staging and MDS Schema):

Environment | CPU | RAM | Minimum Disk Space
--- | --- | --- | ---
Development (DEV) | 4 | 16 GB | 6 x Source DB size
Testing or Staging (STAGE) | 4 | 16 GB | 6 x Source DB size
Production (PROD) | 4 | 16 GB | 6 x Source DB size

The minimum hardware requirements provided in this document are not sized for optimal ETL and BI Reports performance. Appropriate data warehouse, ETL, and BI technical experts are required to evaluate performance criteria and then size the hardware configuration based on the source database size taking into account the volume of future data growth that will be attributed to changes in the source application.