As part of our initiative to provide quality content to our community, Quest has teamed up with several PeopleSoft thought leaders who will be sharing their knowledge across our blogs. This week, Dan Iverson, PeopleSoft Administrator at psadmin.io writes about building PeopleSoft Images with DPKs.

Dan Iverson, Quest Guest Blogger | Blog content sourced from psadmin.io

Oracle released the first PeopleTools 8.55-based image, HR 9.2 Image 16. You can now use the Deployment Kits (DPKs) to install a PeopleSoft Image on your own platform and you can have a PeopleSoft Image on Windows.

Virtual Box or Native OS

When you visit the PUM Homepage, you have two options to download the PeopleSoft Image:

• The VirtualBox image
• The Native OS DPKs

The VirtualBox option is similar to past PeopleSoft Images. Download the .zip files, extract the bootstrap script, DPK zips and shell .ova file, and import into VirtualBox. This option might be appealing to organizations who aren’t ready to adopt the Native OS method yet.

The Native OS DPK’s will build a full PeopleSoft environment on your servers without the need for VirtualBox. The PeopleSoft Image environment can be normal server in your architecture. You have the option of Linux or Windows DPK’s too. For Windows shops, you can run PeopleSoft Images on the same OS your production systems use. But be aware, the DPK’s only support Oracle. If you run SQL Server, your PeopleSoft Images will still run Oracle.

Demo

Here is a demo installing the HR 9.2 Image 16 on Windows.

The sequences were shortened for the demo, but the PeopleSoft Image build took me less than 20 minutes on a brand new Windows server. That includes all software installation, building an entire database, and deploying the domains.

Interested in learning more? psadmin.io offers a free “Deployment Package Quickstart” online course.