The Rapid Home Provisioning Server is a highly available software provisioning system that uses Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM), Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS), Grid Naming Service (GNS), and other components. The Rapid Home Provisioning Server primarily acts as a central server for provisioning Oracle homes, making them available to Rapid Home Provisioning Clients.
Features of the Rapid Home Provisioning Server:
Efficiently stores gold images for the managed homes, including separate binaries, and metadata related to users, roles, and permissions.
Provides highly available network file system (HANFS) exports for homes accessed using mounts on remote clusters.
Provides a list of available homes to clients upon request.
Patch a software home once and then deploy the home to any Rapid Home Provisioning Client, instead of patching every site.
Provides the ability to report on existing deployments.