The Rapid Home Provisioning architecture consists of Rapid Home Provisioning Servers and Rapid Home Provisioning Clients, and there is a Rapid Home Provisioning Server cluster and a Rapid Home Provisioning cluster.
The Rapid Home Provisioning Server cluster is a repository for all data, of which there are primarily two types:
Gold images
Metadata related to users, roles, permissions, and identities
The Rapid Home Provisioning Server acts as a central server for provisioning Oracle homes, making them available on Rapid Home Provisioning Client clusters.
Users operate on the Rapid Home Provisioning Server or Rapid Home Provisioning Client cluster site to request deployment of Oracle homes or to query gold images. When a user makes a request for 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 taking appropriate action to instantiate a copy of the gold image, and to make it available to the Rapid Home Provisioning Client cluster using available technologies such as Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS), network file systems (NFSs), and snapshots.
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