Install, Configure, and Run - Oracle WebLogic Server 12c Advanced Administration - page 2

Oracle WebLogic Server 12 c applications and systems deployed in production environments
normally require performance, scalability, and high availability; these are usually not needed
in a development environment. The recipes in this topic focus on achieving these objectives.
This chapter condenses the core tasks a WebLogic administrator should know, such as
downloading the correct package, installing it, and creating a WebLogic domain, configuring it,
and managing it.
Installing WebLogic Server 12c
You should already be familiar with basic WebLogic installation, so this recipe covers the steps
to a quick installation of WebLogic Server 12 c in production environments.
This recipe will focus on a new install rather than upgrades or migrations.
Getting ready
It is important to navigate through Oracle's website and check if the chosen hardware and
operational system architectures are supported in Certification Matrix before installing
WebLogic Server. You should look for system requirements and supported platforms for
WebLogic Server 12 c . This is crucial for a production environment since Oracle Support
verifies if you are running a supported configuration when an issue appears.
The topic assumes the following hardware and software architectures for WebLogic Server
12 c installations:
F X86-64 processor (such as Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron)
F Linux x86-64 architecture (such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Oracle Linux)
Operational systems based on Linux x86-64 (64-bit) are the most commonly used in production
environments, and these instructions should cover other Unix architectures as well.
The use of WebLogic Server in Microsoft Windows for production
environments will not be considered in this topic.
Oracle JRockit 6 for Linux x86-64 is the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that has been used
through the rest of this topic. Download it at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/
middleware/jrockit/downloads . The filename is jrockit-jdk1.6.0_XXX-
linux-x64.bin , where XXX stands for the JRockit release and JDK version.
The package WebLogic Server 12c (12.1.1) generic installer (997 MB) for use with
64-bit JVMs should also be downloaded at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/
middleware/weblogic/downloads . The filename is wls1211_generic.jar .