Requirements for Installing Oracle 11gR1 RDBMS on Solaris 10 SPARC 64-bit

1. Hardware Requirements

Oracle software requires a minimum of 1024 MB of RAM for successful installation.

* The following table describes the relationship between installed RAM and the configured swap space requirement:
RAM Swap Space
Between 1024 MB and 2048 MB 1.5 times the size of RAM
Between 2049 MB and 8192 MB Equal to the size of RAM
More than 8192 MB 0.75 times the size of RAM
* 275 Mb of free space in /tmp

* The disk space requirements for software files for each installation type:
Enterprise Edition - 4.68 GB
Standard Edition - 4.62 GB
Custom Edition - 4.71 GB (maximum)
* Between 1.5 GB and 2 GB of disk space is required for preconfigured database that uses file system storage (optional).

2. Software Requirements

* Solaris 10

* The following packages (or later versions) must be installed:
# SUNWarc
# SUNWbtool
# SUNWhea
# SUNWlibC
# SUNWlibm
# SUNWlibms
# SUNWsprot
# SUNWtoo
# SUNWi1of
# SUNWi1cs
# SUNWi15cs
# SUNWxwfnt
# SUNWuiu8 - refer Note 290034.1
# SUNWulcf - refer Note 290034.1
* The following are the compiler requirements for Pro*C/C++, Oracle Call Interface, Oracle C++ Call Interface, and Oracle XML Developer's Kit (XDK), and GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) with Oracle Database 11g Release 1:
Sun One Studio 11
* The following patches are required:
# 127111-02 SunOS 5.10: libc patch
# 137111-04 SunOS 5.10: kernel patch

3. OS Environment

* Modify your kernel settings in /etc/system as well as using the resource control.

Parameter Replaced by Resource Control Minimum Value

noexec_user_stack	NA	1
semsys:seminfo_semmni	project.max-sem-ids	100
semsys:seminfo_semmns	NA	1024
semsys:seminfo_semmsl	process.max-sem-nsems	256
semsys:seminfo_semvmx	NA	32767
shmsys:shminfo_shmmax	project.max-shm-memory	4294967296
shmsys:shminfo_shmmni	project.max-shm-ids	100

* The 'umask' setting for the "oracle" user has to be 022.

* Hostname command should return the fully qualified hostname as shown below:
% hostname
hostname.domainname