Anyone Experience WebCenter Suite 11g ins tall with UCM on Linux?

Question

I have been installing and facing several issues with this. It is extremely slow on weblogic server. starting weblogic server takes around 30 minutes. The deployer keeps deploying for ever. Not sure if I am doing something wrong.
Here are the steps I followed:
1. Installed 11g Database. Bumped the processes to 350 (else rcu would not work).
2. used rcu to create a DEV schema or webcenter, Portal and BI.
3. Installed Weblogic Server and ran config.sh and created a domain (with no managed servers).'
4. Installed webtier (OHS and WebCache) since WebCenter with UCM requires a HTTP Server URL (I was not sure if I could use the WebLogic Internal HTTP). and configured it. Made sure I was able to stop and star OHS.
5. Then installed WebCenter FrameWork with UCM. Then had to extend the above created domain and added 3 Managed Servers WLS_Services, WLS_Spaces, WLS_Portlets.
6. Tried to get Weblogic stopped and started (and it took for ever).
7. Tried to start each of the Managed Servers and again it seemed to take for ever.
8. Now I have a fusion control though it seems to take quite sometime to login to it or the console (especially the first time).
9. The fusion control still shows everything down inspite of the Managed servers being up.
10. Then I notice that the application webcenter, owc_discussions, owc_wiki all show failed state.
11. There are several errors in the logs and constant error that keep showing up on the console (vnc).
org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.bean.PropertyKey saveValue
WARNING: Unserializable value:oracle.sysman.core.view.tgtctls.common.DefaultTreeModel@2d867cb for key:UINodePropertyKey[value,17]
and logs show something like this (WLS_Spaces.log - similar errors on WLS_Services etc) and several others.
in the execution of deployment request with ID '1247722801817' for task '1'. Error is: 'weblogic.management.DeploymentException: '
weblogic.management.DeploymentException:
at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment.throwAppException(BaseDeployment.java:80)
at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment.prepare(BaseDeployment.java:187)
at weblogic.application.internal.EarDeployment.prepare(EarDeployment.java:53)
at weblogic.application.internal.DeploymentStateChecker.prepare(DeploymentStateChecker.java:154)
at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.AppContainerInvoker.prepare(AppContainerInvoker.java:60)
and also this:
<ava.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: oracle/webcenter/peopleconnections/profile/ootbview/beans/OotbViewEditSettingsTypeImpl : oracle/mds/melement/MElementBeanImpl
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:620)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:124)

Answer 1

1. This is a dev server and has around 4GB and 2 CPU's somewhere around 2.x GHZ (I guess). I monitored the system while I noticed slowness and did not find any issues I/O or memory and all I could notice in the logs are deployment going on. I sometimes however noticed warning on Thread stuck - not sure how to tune it or optimize threads (being new to weblogic).
2. Yes, I have tried deploying and it fails with errors again in deployment - again I probably have to read a bit about WebLogic deployments.
3. I am not sure how to avoid configuring atleast an empty domain in step 3. Would help if you elaborate. Here is my understanding:
a. To install webcenter with UCM, I need a running http url (address).
b. To get a HTTP running, I need webtier installed and configured. The configuration seem to ask for a weblogic domain. In which case I have to create a weblogic domain either by running config.sh on the WEBLOGIC_HOME or through the config.sh on WEBTIER_HOME/common/bin.
That was my understanding, I understand the best way to configure is to run config.sh from the WEBCENTER_HOME.
Looks like I might have to uninstall and try reinstalling.