4 Managing Gold Images and Working Copies
You can add new gold images to your Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning Server, create working copies from the gold images, and provision Oracle homes.
- Adding Gold Images to the Fleet Patching and Provisioning Server
Use RHPCTL to add gold images for later provisioning of software. - Provisioning Copies of Gold Images
Use RHPCTL to provision copies of gold images to Fleet Patching and Provisioning Servers, Clients, andrhpclient-less targets. - Provisioning Oracle Grid Infrastructure Homes
When you create a working copy of a gold image as part of a move or upgrade operation, Fleet Patching and Provisioning configures the operating system groups in the new working copy to match those of the source software home. - Provisioning Oracle Database Homes
Use therhpctl add workingcopycommand to provision a working copy of a database home on a Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning Server, Client, orrhpclient-less target. - Creating an Oracle Database
Create an Oracle Database on a working copy. - Archiving and Unarchiving Gold Images
Starting with Oracle Grid Infrastructure 23ai, you can archive the gold images to save disk space without deleting them and unarchive the gold images if you need to use them again.