1 – Introduction
This tutorial is meant to guide people to install successfully a fully working OBIEE 11g environment on Windows platform.
I have faced several problems before complete the installation because of several prerequisites missed in the documentation.
The result of this tutorial is based on a step by step list of informations and screenshots collected during the installation phases; what a best way to inaugurate this blog!
2 – Installers
The following products (at the time I am writing, these are the latest versions) need to be downloaded from http://otn.oracle.com; bare in mind that the installers take more than 7 Gb!!!
- Oracle Database 11g R2
- Oracle RCU 11.1.1.3.3
- Oracle BI EE 11.1.1.3.0
3 – Preinstallation tasks
3.1 Install last version of JDK (probably not needed, but because the installers are Java based, I would suggest to do it)
3.2 Increase system virtual memory
3.3 Copy the content of win32_11gR2_database_2of2 folder into win32_11gR2_database_1of2 to avoid a “<DB_HOME>\oc4j\j2ee\oc4j_applications\applications\em.ear file not found error” while installing the database (I know, it’s a really funny issue… I took hours to find out why 
).
