I am in the process of installing PeopleSoft HR 9.0 in a VMWare instance for development. I hope to give more details later in case I ever need to do any of this later on.

Here is what I started with:

• Windows 2003 Server installed in VMWare
• PeopleSoft HR 8.9/PeopleTools 8.46 installed
• Oracle 9.2 installed
• Weblogic

I uninstalled the PeopleSoft, Weblogic, and Oracle database to get back to just a basic Windows installation.

Everything is installed on the same virtual computer because this is just for testing and development. So, I am not worried about connections to/from any other computers with this instance. The PeopleSoft is a demo database so that we have some test data.

Here is what I have installed:

• Oracle 10g
• PeopleTools 8.49
• PeopleSoft HR 9.0
• Tuxedo 9.1
• Oracle SOA Suite

Here are some of the problems that I have had:

• Hard drive space — originally, the PeopleSoft fit on a 25 Gigabyte hard drive; I had to add another 80 Gigabyte drive for this version.
• Tuxedo Version: PeopleTools 8.48 will install with Tuxedo 8.1; PeopleTools 8.49 requires Tuxedo 9.1
• Services automatically starting: still working on this one (database, application server, process scheduler)
• Creating the PeopleSoft database (modifying scripts, running out of hard drive space, restarting the install, etc.)

I will try to blog what I have learned as I get time and as I work through the problems I still have left. Please let me know if there is anything in particular you are interested in in the meantime.