Adding Gold Images for Rapid Home Provisioning

1.10 Adding Gold Images for Rapid Home Provisioning

Create gold images of software home and store them on the Rapid Home Provisioning Server, to use later to provision Oracle homes.

Before You Begin

The Oracle home to be used for creating the gold image can be on the Rapid Home Provisioning Server, or Rapid Home Provisioning Client, or any target machine that the Rapid Home Provisioning Server can communicate with.

Procedure

Create gold images of Oracle homes in any of the following ways and store them on the Rapid Home Provisioning server:

Import an image from an installed Oracle home on the Rapid Home Provisioning Server:
```
rhpctl import image -image db12201 -path /share/software/122/dbhome -imagetype ORACLEDBSOFTWARE 
```
The gold image of imagetype Oracle Database 12c release 2 software is created and stored on the Rapid Home Provisioning Server.

You can also create by gold images of Oracle Grid Infrastructure or any other software by specifying -imagetype as ORACLEGISOFTWARE or SOFTWARE respectively.
Import an image from an installed Oracle home on a Rapid Home Provisioning Client by running the following command from the Rapid Home Provisioning Client:
```
rhpctl import image -image db12201 -path /u01/app/dbusr/product/12.2.0/
```
The command creates and adds the image db12201 based on the local Oracle home installed in the specified path.

Note:

You cannot directly use images as software homes. Use images to create working copies of software homes.

Parent topic: Rapid Home Provisioning Use Cases