Oracle Database Setup and Upgrade Guide for Cisco IoT FND, Release 5.x.x and Later

Set up a virtual machine

Updated: October 17, 2025

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Provides instructions to prepare and install a virtual machine with the required hardware resources and RHEL ISO image before setting up Oracle DB.

Before you begin

The hardware requirements for setting up the virtual machine (VM) are:

Table 1. Hardware Requirements for Setting Up a VM
Hard Disk	200 GB (minimum 120 GB)
Memory	16 GB (minimum 4 GB)
vCPU	4

Use these steps to install a virtual machine with a RHEL 8.x ISO file:

Procedure

	1.	Download RHEL ISO image from Red Hat Customer Portal. Note You can download RHEL ISO image 8.9 for Cisco IoT FND release 5.0 and RHEL 9.5 ISO image for Cisco IoT FND Release 5.1.
	2.	Install RHEL 8.x with ISO file. For more information on how to install RHEL 8.x ISO image, see Interactively installing RHEL from installation media.
	3.	Create a VM using RHEL. For more information on how you can create a VM, see Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtual Machines.
	4.	Boot the VM using the downloaded ISO image file. Example ISO file: `rhel-8.5-x86_64-dvd.iso`.

What to do next

Refer to Set up Oracle DB.

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