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Many of you have asked this question to us whether you can provision additional module if you have selected only one module during provisioning process? Unfortunately, as on today the answer is NO

Currently due to limitation of Fusion Applications architecture, you cannot add an all new product offering to an existing Fusion Applications environment. But you can surely add/select a new option in existing offering by using Oracle Fusion Applications Functional Setup Manager. For example if you have provisioned and configured only Workforce Deployment in Fusion HCM then you can later configure other functionalities like Workforce Development or Compensation Management using Functional setup manager. But you cannot add Financials later (as on today) even though the interdependent functionalities are already enabled during installation. In Functional setup manager if you select the checkbox next to a product which is not PROVISIONED then it will show a message mentioning the consequences of doing so.

Oracle is already working on this and they will later enable adding new offering as well just like we do in eBusiness suite.

We are also checking with Oracle regarding when this will be available and will update you once we have a definite answer.

Hope this helps

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Fusion Applications 11.1.5 installation is not straightforward unlike E-Business Suite 11i/R12 installation. So we need to divide the installation into following main steps. Please note that we have changed the default order since we are going to host both RCU in one database which is fine since both have different schemas. This will save us a lot of Memory for the VM or Host. Please note that we will be performing single node installation so all components will be installed on single node. All steps are provided with detailed screenshots.

Note: If you are looking for Fusion Applications 11.1.7 installation steps then you can refer to following link.

http://www.oratraining.com/blog/2013/11/oracle-fusion-applications-installation-step-by-step-guide-11-1-7/

If you are looking for Fusion Applications 11.1.6 installation steps then you can refer to following link.

http://www.oratraining.com/blog/2013/03/oracle-fusion-applications-installation-step-by-step-guide-11-1-6/

Note: I could see that a lot of you were still referring to the installation steps in my older posts for FA 11.1.1.5 or 11.1.4 etc, I have redirected all those old posts to this now. Also please do not use a saved version of the posts since we keep updating the posts based on new findings, issues, workarounds and suggestion from fellow community members. If you still want the documents for older versions, please comment below so that I will provide alternate link to you.

Preparing for Oracle Fusion Applications installation

1. Downloading Oracle Fusion Applications media
2. Creating Oracle VirtualBox Virtual Machine with Oracle Linux/Solaris

   OR
   Install Oracle Linux or Solaris on a Physical machine (We are using physical machine this time)

3. Staging/Creating Oracle Fusion Applications provisioning repository

Installing Oracle Fusion Applications – steps

1. Install Fusion Applications Provisioning Framework
2. Install Oracle 11g Database (Applications Transactional Database)
3. Run Oracle Fusion Applications Repository Creation Utility (Applications RCU)
4. Create another database for Oracle Identity Management Infrastructure (optional)
5. Run Repository Creation Utility (RCU) for Oracle Identity Management components
6. Install Oracle Identity and Access Management Components
7. Apply mandatory Patches
8. Configure Oracle Identity and Access Management components
9. Integrate Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) and Oracle Access Manager (OAM)
10. Create new Response File
11. Provision an Applications Environment

We are going to install Fusion Applications 11.1.5 for Oracle Solaris Operating system. The installation is almost same as Linux installation so you can use this guide for any installation. So we will download the installation media for Oracle Fusion Applications 11.1.5 for Oracle Solaris SPARC from http://edelivery.oracle.com

Login to access the following screen.

Select “Oracle Fusion Applications” and required platform from the list. Click Go. Open the first pack.

Download the first 17 media files (excluding README). We will not need rest of the media for this installation. Unzip all these files into one Stage directory.

Important Note: Since some of the files have very long directory path (very close to 255 characters), please unzip these files into stage folder name to keep short name. At least 2 files have very long path so let us try to avoid this.

We must have OS installed either on physical or a virtual machine in order to proceed with the installation.

Note: We can also use VMWare to host the Virtual Machine. We will post another guide on setting up VMWare virtual machine. But the good thing is that the virtual machine/disks which we create in VirtualBox, same we can use in VMWare as well since we will create .vmdk format disks. This will add flexibility for you to use it anywhere later.

We are using following configuration for our single node installation.

Server: Oracle (Sun) Enterprise Server
OS: Oracle Solaris 10 64 bit
Memory: Recommended 64 GB. More the memory, smoother the installation
Swap disk: 80 GB
Local available Disk space: 300 GB
Processor: Sun SPARC Quod core processor

Next: Install Fusion Applications Provisioning Framework