Start your own Oracle Vision (Demo) instance R12.2.4 by transferring Oracle VM Virtual appliance image to Amazon AWS services

• Start a Windows instance from AWS Console using AMI "Windows_Server-2016-English-Full-Base-2017.01.11 (ami-7f2e031f)" with 500GB space.

• Download and start Firefox.

• Go to http://edelivery.oracle.com

• Sign up or log on to edeliver.oracle.com

• Search for “Oracle VM Virtual Appliances for Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.4”

• Select all files with the description "Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2.4 Single Node Vision Install X86 (64bit)".

• Once above files are downloaded, unzip all the files and run below command from Dos prompt to concatenate above files into one single ova file.  List all the file names separated by a space in below command.

                  type Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.4_VISION_INSTALL.ova.00 Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.4_VISION_INSTALL.ova.01 Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.4_VISION_INSTALL.ova.02 Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.4_VISION_INSTALL.ova.03 Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.4_VISION_INSTALL.ova.04 Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.4_VISION_INSTALL.ova.05 Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.4_VISION_INSTALL.ova.06 Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.4_VISION_INSTALL.ova.07 Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.4_VISION_INSTALL.ova.08 Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.4_VISION_INSTALL.ova.09 Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.4_VISION_INSTALL.ova.10 Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.4_VISION_INSTALL.ova.11 Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.4_VISION_INSTALL.ova.12 Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.4_VISION_INSTALL.ova.13 Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.4_VISION_INSTALL.ova.14 Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.4_VISION_INSTALL.ova.15>R1224.ova

• Log on to AWS and choose S3 service.

• Create a bucket with the name "r1224ovm" to store R1224.ova

• Upload R1224.ova  file to S3 Bucket r1224ovm.     

• Import the VM into AWS by following steps :

              1.  Create a file called contain.json with below contents:

                        [ 

                         {

                            "Description": "Oracle Demo Vision Instance R12.2.4",

                            "Format": "ova",

                            "UserBucket": {

                            "S3Bucket": "r1224ovm",

                            "S3Key": "R1224EBS.ova"

                          }

                         }]
               2.  On Windows Server, go to Start->Windows Powershell for AWS
               3.   Provide your Access key and secret access key (your AWS Account) at the prompts from "Windows Powershell for AWS".
               4.   Take care of creating role and policy as per steps given in http://docs.aws.amazon.com/vm-import/latest/userguide/vmimport-image-import.html#vmimport-iam-permissions
               5.   Run below command:
                        aws ec2 import-image --description "Oracle Demo Vision Instance R12.2.4" --disk-containers file://containers.json
               6.   Check the status of import with below command:
                       aws ec2 describe-import-image-tasks --import-task-ids import-ami-xxxxxx

• Go to EC2 service in Amazon AWS console.

• At this point, you can terminate your Windows instance in AWS, since we have the image imported into AWS.  You may also want to remove any storage associated with this Windows instance.

• Start an instance using the image imported in above steps.  I suggest using at minimum t2-large instance type.

• Once this instance is up, login as oracle by following instructions from this document: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/servers-storage-admin/evaluating-linux-vb-1934676.html

• Login to root using below command:

                su -

                You will be prompted to change the password of oracle, root and applmgr users.

• Note down the private IP Address on your ec2 instance. 

• Open /etc/hosts file in vi editor and add below entry:

• Your private ip_address ebs.example.com ebs

• Type below command to change your host name.

• hostname ebs

• Login as oracle

• ln –s /u01/install/VISION/EBSapps.env .

• Steps to startup the database:

              cd /u01/install/VISION/11.2.0

              . ./EBSDB_ebs.env

              sqlplus '/ as sysdba'<<EOF

              startup

              EOF

              lsnrctl start EBSDB

• Steps to startup the application:

              cd /u01/install/VISION

              . ./EBSapps.env run

              cd $ADMIN_SCRIPTS_HOME

              ./adstrtal.sh apps/apps

              Default password for weblogic is ‘welcome1’

• On your computer, open C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file in a notepad and add below entry so that your computer can reach ebs.example.com:

                xx.xx.xxx.xxx ebs.example.com ebs

                xx.xx.xxx.xxx is an ip address attached to your EC2 instance.

• Open a browser and login to application using url: http://ebs.example.com:8000

•  You are all set.