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Before starting you need to know what software will be installed. If attending an event, would be a good idea to download the software in advance to your laptop in order to avoid the download during the labs. The copyrighted software is not distributable so the volunteers will not be able to give you all the required software components. But organizers may have set up a proxy server to speed up downloads or provide at least the free software. Windows 7 64 bit This book covers Windows 7 64 bit as host even if all operating systems that can run VirtualBox 64-bit can be used. 64 bits are mandatory since Oracle 12c for Linux 32-bit is not available. The differences between Windows and OS X are highlighted in information boxes like this one. VirtualBox This book uses VirtualBox as many Oracle specialists consider it as a mature and free virtualization solution, fully compatible with Oracle Software: https://www.virtualbox.org/. The VirtualBox version 4.3.26 and older versions from 4.2.12 up to 4.2.18 have been tested successfully with OEL6 and Oracle 12c. The latest successfully tested VirtualBox version is 5.0.8 A few virtualbox versions (4.3.14 to 22 if I remember well ) had serious problems on Windows. EL 6.4 to 6.7 have been tried without problems. Putty One of the preferred SSH clients for Windows. You can download it here: http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty.exe OS X and Linux hosts can use their native ssh commandline command. Windows 10 users can also use a native ssh implementation starting with the April 2018 Update to Windows. Vnc Viewer The servers will be installed without X server, so you'll need VNC to get the graphics: http://www.realvnc.com/download/get/1295/ OS X and Linux hosts can use XQuartz and X Windows respectively instead of VNC. You just need to connect to your servers using ssh -X to enable X tunneling. Windows can also use X Windows emulation programs like XMing, provided that you are comfortable to install it and use it. This book however covers VNC as the preferred method. Oracle Software The latest tested versions are Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.7, and Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Database 12c (12.1.0.2) Oracle Enterprise Linux 6 Can be downloaded from http://edelivery.oracle.com/linux/. Login to: http://edelivery.oracle.com/linux with your Oracle Account On the Media Pack Search page, select: Product pack: Oracle Linux Platform: x86 64 bit Click GO Image:RA-Edelivery-Linux_Media_Pack_Search.PNG Click on: Oracle Linux Release 6 Update 4 Media Pack for x86_64 (64 bit) Image:RA-Edelivery-Linux_Media_Pack_Search_Result.PNG Click on the download button at the first line: Image:RA-Edelivery-Linux_Media_Pack_Download.PNG Once the download of the file V37084-01.iso is finished, rename it to Oracle_Linux_6_64.iso to distinguish it easily from other Oracle files. Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Database 12c (12.1.0.1) Can be downloaded from http://edelivery.oracle.com/. Login to: http://edelivery.oracle.com/ with your Oracle Account On the Media Pack Search page, select: Product pack: Oracle Database Platform: Linux x86-64 Click GO Image:RA-Edelivery-Database_Media_Pack_Search.PNG Click on: Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1.0.1.0) Media Pack for Linux x86-64 Image:RA-Edelivery-Database_Media_Pack_Search_Result.PNG Click on the download button for the following four packs: Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1.0.1.0) for Linux x86-64 (Part 1 of 2) Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1.0.1.0) for Linux x86-64 (Part 2 of 2) Oracle Database 12c Release 1 Grid Infrastructure (12.1.0.1.0) for Linux x86-64 (Part 1 of 2) Oracle Database 12c Release 1 Grid Infrastructure (12.1.0.1.0) for Linux x86-64 (Part 2 of 2) Image:RA-Edelivery-Database_Media_Pack_Download.PNG The following files are downloaded: V38501-01_1of2.zip V38501-01_2of2.zip V38500-01_1of2.zip V38500-01_2of2.zip After uncompressing them, there will be two folders: "grid" and "database" containing the full installation. Hardware Requirements VirtualBox Setup