System requirements

Make sure you have enough space to store, unzip the files, and install the following software:

• Zip files: 5.42 GB
• Unzipped files: 5.47 GB
• Recommended disk space: 20 GB

Note

This has been mentioned because if you attempt to perform this installation on Amazon's EC2 service, you are allocated 30 GB of space initially. You may have to add a second disk if you want to install all the components (database/RCU and OBIEE) on a single machine.

For a full list of system requirements--hardware, software, operating systems, and so on--see the following guide: http://book.obiee.info/sysrequirements.

That page links to the most up-to-date requirements and certification documents.

Tip

For our installation, we used a server that uses a Solid State Drive (SSD) and 14 GB RAM with an Intel i7 eight-core CPU. The machine hosts the database, as well as the OBIEE components, and performance is good.

Here's a quick checklist of items before you get started installing and configuring OBIEE...