Does OBIEE 12c supports shared binaries installation

Shyam-Oracle

Does OBIEE 12c supports shared binaries installation? If so Can you please point to any documentation.There is a document on Weblogic shared storage but no specific documentation with respect OBIEE 12c.

There is one MOS note which is again routing same Weblogic Documentation, One interesting they have mentioned in this which makes me confuse is in the below note.

OBIEE 12c FAQ: Is It Supported To Create Multiple Domains From a Single Oracle Home? (Doc ID 2198341.1)

Note:

From a single server, you may run the Configuration Assistant a second time to create a second domain. This would apply to local storage; however, creating multiple domains from single binaries would not be a best practice nor supported for a production server.

Does any one know if this supported in cloud? We are trying following setup and wanted to if this correct and will be supported by OBIEE team. We are using OBIEE 12.2.1.2 and we are facing issues while starting OBIEE managed Server with this setup.

Created two different file systems, /share (read-only) for binaries and /domains (read-write) for WebLogic domain hosting. Below are setup steps in detail.

       Mounted /share file system with Read-Write (first time)

1. Installed WebLogic and OBIEE binaries in /share/fmw
2. Took the tar ball backup of /share/fmw folder. So this backup can be used as a reference  to identify the files domain creation touches inside /share/fmw
3. Created an OBIEE WebLogic domain
4. Ran the diff command  to identify files that got changed in /share/fmw after domain creation

  For identified files and directories that got changed, created the softlink for them. Below is the softlink list.

Mounted /share file system with Read-only

1. After creating the softlink, mounted the /share file system with read-only mount
2. Created the 2^nd WebLogic domain and the domain got created successfully.