Hardware and Software System Requirement for OBIEE 11g

1.0 Oracle Business Intelligence Requirements This section contains important information for the system on which you are installing Oracle Business Intelligence and the database containing the schemas. 1.1 Installation System Requirements Below are the recommended hardware and system configuration requirements for an Oracle Business Intelligence installation on 32-bit Windows operating systems: Hardware Requirement: 1. Disk Space: 20GB or more 2. Available Memory: 4GB or more 3. Temp Space: 950MB or more 4. Swap Space: 3GB or more 5. CPU: dual-core Pentium, 1.5GHz or greater Software Requirement: 1. OS: Windows Xp SP2 above version 2. Microsoft .Net Frame Work 3.5 SP2 above 3. OBIEE 11g latest Version 4. RCU(Repository Creation Utility 11.1.1.3) 5. MS SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition 2.0 Database Requirements Below are the recommended disk space requirements for the database containing the Oracle Business Intelligence Scheduler database tables. 500MB on Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server databases for standalone and Business Intelligence applications and deployments. 500MB on IBM DB2 databases for standalone deployments. 3.0 RCU Supported Platforms RCU is available only on 32-bit Microsoft Windows operating system platforms. You can run RCU from these machines to connect to Microsoft SQL Server database in order to create the 20 schemas required by Fusion Middleware components. The database server can be running on any platform that is supported by its respective database.
OBIEE versions:

After installation is successful, the configuration process is starts and after completing 12% getting me error like :creating A SInstance fail Solution: This error is occurs because we have not set the computer IP address and also not assigned it into host file. OBIEE 11g installation failed at Configuration step 13 of 14 1. Error: CREATING ASInstance failed Cause: This is because of an invalid host file. Guys please note that a static ip is needed for the OBIEE instance creation and thus installation. Resolution: The usual entries in the host file is as below 121. 0. 0.1 localhost (default) Change this to The actual physical IP of the machine (set using the lookback adapter) 192.168.31.xxx sandeep-pc It can be of the any no routable IP given below: 10.10.10.10 or 192.168.1.XXX (0-255) DO NOT END the installation if this fails in this step . But make sure the host files are as below validate them. ping sandeep-pc (it should return the IP entered in the host file). Please check ur TNSNAMES.ORA and LISTNER.ORA files and replace localhost with the host name (sandeep-pc). Go to the LSNECTL.EXE from the ORACLE_HOME dir and run LSNRCTL.EXE as administrator (in win 7). execute the following: >LSNRCTL stop and

>LSNRCTL reload >LSNRCTL start Open a new command prompt and execute the following: c:\ tnsping orcl also verify the following: nslookup sandeep-pc nslookup 192.168.1.xxx Go back to the installation and click RETRY. the installation should go through. If it do not go through then quit the installation and clear the registries and do an new install in a new FMW home http://obieelive.blogspot.in/2012/06/obiee-11g-installation-failed-at.html

2. Error: Executing opmnctl reload failed

Solution: Just press Retry it will successful. Might be your right it is due to space,Minimum free disk space of 30gb is required ,minimum processor speed of 2ghz,3gb of ram is required to install it on vmware. I installed it on vmware it dint stop me from assigning 30gb or more hard disk space....while installing on vmware it will ask you how much memory you can increase it.Because OBIEE 11g requires what i specified above point.

Host Files for OBIEE 11.1.1.6.0 Installation

Applies to: Business Intelligence Server Enterprise Edition Version: 11.1.1.3.0 [1905] to 11.1.1.6.0 Release: 11g to 11g Information in this document applies to any platform.

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition

Goal How should the etc/hosts file be configured before Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) 11g Installation. Solution In OBIEE 11.1.1.3, the installation allowed the etc/hosts file to have an entry using the localhost IP address. For example:

[oracle@test ~]$ more /etc/hosts # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 host.oracle.com

If such a setting is in place in OBIEE 11.1.1.5, or 11.1.1.6, the install will fail, or components will fail to start after install. To prevent this from happening, you must modify the etc/hosts file before starting installation.

The etc/hosts file needs to be changed from local host (127.0.0.1) to the physical IP address. For example:
[oracle@host ~]$ more /etc/hosts # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 10.10.11.46 host.oracle.com host

On Windows 7, the etc/hosts does not need to include the domain:

10.10.11.46 host

Pre-installation checks for all platforms should include nslookups to confirm network and DNS settings. For example, the following command should return without error and the IP address and host should match those listed in the etc/hosts file:

nslookup host (where host is the short name or alias for the host machine) nslookup host.oracle.com (lookup on the actual host name and domain) nslookup 123.456.789.0 (where IP address specified is that of the actual OBIEE machine)

NOTE: Windows 7 is not a certified platform for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition versions 11.1.1.3 or 11.1.1.5. Starting with OBIEE 11.1.1.6, Windows 7 is supported for single user in a development only environment. For further information, please see the Certification Guide posted

Windows 7 related comments in this note are included because many customers are installing nonproduction instances of OBIEE on Windows7.