Select a Product to Install

Select a product that you want to install, then click Next.

The following products are available. Refer to the appropriate sections for information about how to specify the information required by each option.

Oracle Database
Oracle Client
Oracle Clusterware

Oracle Database

Select this option if you want to install Oracle Database with any of the following options:

Create a custom or preconfigured starter database
Choose products from the available list
Install database with Management tools, such as Database Control
Configure Automatic Storage Management
Install networking services for database connectivity
Use various utilities with the database
Install basic client software for an Oracle database

Depending on the license type, this option enables you to choose from the following installation types:

Standard Edition: Installs an integrated set of management tools, full distribution, replication, Web features, and facilities for building business-critical applications. While performing a basic installation, you can also select Standard Edition One installation type. This installation type installs a full-featured database that is packaged and priced for small-to-medium businesses or departmental systems running on two-processor servers.
Enterprise Edition: Installs licensable Oracle Database options and database configuration and management tools in addition to all of the products that are installed during a Standard Edition installation. It also installs products most commonly used for data warehousing and transaction processing.
Personal Edition (Windows only): Installs the same software as the Enterprise Edition installation type, but supports only a single user development and deployment environment that requires full compatibility with Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition. Oracle Real Application Clusters is not installed with Personal Edition.
Custom: Enables you to select the individual components that you want to install from the list of all available components.

Oracle Client

Select this option if you want to install Oracle Database Client with any of the following options:

Install enterprise management tools
Install networking services for database connectivity
Use various utilities with database
Install development tools and precompilers
Install basic Client software

Depending on the license type, this option enables you to choose from the following installation types:

Instant Client: Enables you to install only the shared libraries required by Oracle Call Interface (OCI), Oracle C++ Call Interface (OCCI), Pro*C, or Java database connectivity (JDBC) OCI applications. This installation type requires much less disk space than the other Oracle Client installation types.
Included in the Instant Client installation is Instant Client Light. You may want to use this version of Instant Client if the application generates error messages in American English only.
The advantage of using Instant Client Light is that it has a smaller footprint than the regular Instant Client. The shared libraries, which applications must load, are only 34 MB as opposed to the 110 MB that regular Instant Client uses. Therefore, the applications use less memory.
Administrator: Enables applications to connect to an Oracle Database instance on the local system or on a remote system. It also provides tools that enable you to administer the Oracle Database.
Runtime: Enables applications to connect to an Oracle Database instance on the local system or on a remote system.
Custom: Enables you to select individual components from the list of Administrator and Runtime components.

Oracle Clusterware

Select this option to install the Oracle Clusterware components. You must install Oracle Clusterware to install Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC). You can also install Oracle Clusterware to protect the following from failure:

Single-instance Oracle Database
Oracle Application Server
Any other application running on the nodes within a cluster

If you configure Oracle Clusterware to support an application and it detects a failure, Oracle Clusterware restarts the application on the same node, or relocates the application to another node in the cluster.

Before installing Oracle Clusterware, you must complete the steps for configuring shared storage and network addresses. You must also complete the other tasks that are described in the platform-specific Oracle Clusterware installation guide. Oracle recommends that you use Cluster Verification Utility (CVU) to determine if the cluster configuration is suitable for an Oracle Clusterware installation.

Before you run CVU or continue with the Oracle Clusterware installation, you must have configured SSH between all of the nodes as described in the platform-specific Oracle Clusterware installation guide. You must also have loaded the SSH keys into memory for the terminal session in which you start Oracle Universal Installer.

During installation, be prepared to provide the following information:

Planned path to the Oracle software inventory (oraInventory) location if this is the first Oracle software installation on the system. Note that all Oracle software installations must use the same Oracle software inventory file (oraInventory).
Operating system group name of the group whose members have permissions to perform Oracle software installations. This is referred to in Oracle documentation as the oinstall group.
Path to the Oracle Clusterware binary home.
Network addresses for the public node name, private node name (interconnect), and virtual host name for each node that you want to make a member of the cluster.
Paths to shared storage devices on which you will place the Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR) and voting disk files.

Refer to the platform-specific Oracle Clusterware installation guide for more information.