The Rapid Home Provisioning Client is part of the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installed on all servers in the cloud. Users operate on a Rapid Home Provisioning Client to perform tasks such as requesting deployment of Oracle homes and listing available gold images. When a user requests an Oracle home specifying a gold image, the Rapid Home Provisioning Client communicates with the Rapid Home Provisioning Server to pass on the request. The Rapid Home Provisioning Server processes the request by instantiating a working copy of the gold image and making it available to the Rapid Home Provisioning Client using Oracle ACFS (recommended), a different local file system, or through NFS.
The Rapid Home Provisioning Client:
Utilizes Oracle ACFS to store working copies which can be rapidly provisioned as local homes; new homes can be quickly created or undone using Oracle ACFS snapshots.
Note:
Oracle supports using other local file systems besides Oracle ACFS.
Provides a list of available homes from the Rapid Home Provisioning Server.
Allows high availability NFS (HANFS) mounts from the Rapid Home Provisioning Server to be provisioned as working copies on the Rapid Home Provisioning Client cluster.
The NFS home client is a Rapid Home Provisioning Client that does not have Oracle ACFS installed, but can still access the Rapid Home Provisioning Server through an NFS protocol. In an NFS protocol environment, the Rapid Home Provisioning Server must have a highly available NFS server configured so that the Rapid Home Provisioning Client will be highly available.
See Also:
"Creating a Rapid Home Provisioning Client" for more information