Most noticeable points with respect to Fleet Maintenance and Rapid Home Provisioning!!
Database Fleet Maintenance ,It is a centralized mechanism which helps administrators in complete automation for patching or upgrading of Oracle homes and associated databases.
The advantages of fleet are :
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[+]Full Support - Support all DB's (Multitenant & Cloud Ready).
[+]Complete Automation - End to End, Covers Patching, Upgrades (Complete Database product family including Data Guard, DBs on ODA & Exadata.).
[+]Scale - Patch large no:of Databases with minimal downtime.
[+]Mass automation - Multiple targets with multiple patches in single downtime.
[+]Flexibility for application owners and Centralized Control for Administrators.
Database Fleet Maintenance is applicable on:
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[+]Single Instance Oracle Homes and associated databases.