Adding Gold Images to the Rapid Home Provisioning Server

The Rapid Home Provisioning Server stores and serves gold images of software homes. These images must be instantiated on the Rapid Home Provisioning Server.

Note:

Images are read-only, and you cannot run programs from them. To create a usable software home from an image, you must create a working copy. You cannot directly use images as software homes. You can, however, use images to create working copies (software homes).

You can import software to the Rapid Home Provisioning Server using any one of the following methods:

You can import an image from an installed home on the Rapid Home Provisioning Server using the following command:

rhpctl import image -image image_name -path path_to_installed_home
  [-imagetype ORACLEDBSOFTWARE | SOFTWARE]

You can import an image from an installed home on a Rapid Home Provisioning Client, using the following command run from the Rapid Home Provisioning Client:
```
rhpctl import image -image image_name -path path_to_installed_home
```
You can create an image from an existing working copy using the following command:
```
rhpctl add image –image image_name -workingcopy working_copy_name
```

The preceding commands create an Oracle ACFS file system in the Rapid Home Provisioning root directory, similar to the following:

/u01/rhp/images/images/RDBMS_121020617524