Creating a Rapid Home Provisioning Server

The Rapid Home Provisioning Server uses a repository that you create in an Oracle ACFS file system in which you store all the software homes that you want to make available to clients.

To create a Rapid Home Provisioning Server:

  1. Use the Oracle ASM configuration assistant (ASMCA) to create an Oracle ASM disk group on the Rapid Home Provisioning Server to store software, as follows: 
    $ Grid_home/bin/asmca

    Because this disk group is used to store software, Oracle recommends a minimum of 1 TB for this disk group.

    Note:

    You must set Oracle ASM Dynamic Volume Manager (Oracle ADVM) compatibility settings for this disk group to 12.1.

    See Also:

    Oracle Automatic Storage Management Administrator's Guide for information about setting Oracle ASM disk group compatibility.

  2. Provide a mount path that exists on all nodes of the cluster. The Rapid Home Provisioning Server uses this path to mount gold images. 
    $ mkdir -p storage_path/images
  3. As root, create the Rapid Home Provisioning Server resource, as follows: 
    # Grid_home/bin/srvctl add rhpserver -storage storage_path
    -diskgroup disk_group_name
  4. Start the Rapid Home Provisioning Server, as follows: 
    $ Grid_home/bin/srvctl start rhpserver

See Also:

"SRVCTL Command Reference" for more information about the SRVCTL commands used in this procedure

After you start the Rapid Home Provisioning Server, use the Rapid Home Provisioning Control (RHPCTL) utility to further manage Rapid Home Provisioning.

See Also:

Rapid Home Provisioning and Server Control Command Reference for more information about RHPCTL