Creating Golden Images in EM 12c Software Library

Rob Zoeteweij

Srikanth Mohan

Can you please provide some live example of how this Golden Image can be helpful?.

Thank You,

Srikanth M.

Guy-Oracle

Hello Srikanth

The Golden image (or Gold) image is used so that you can have an ORACLE_HOME and (if this is a RDBMS ORACLE_HOME) database which can be cloned to other targets. The benefit of doing this is that the image you've used could be one that's been patched to the level you required.

e.g.

You have a RDBMS ORACLE_HOME 11.2.0.4.0 and you've applied the 11.2.0.4.2 PSU patch

Rather than using the installation media to provision a new ORACLE_HOME (which would be 11.2.0.4.0) you could use the "Gold Image" and the new ORACLE_HOME would be 11.2.0.4.2

See -

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24628_01/em.121/e27046/prov_db_overview.htm#BABCEDFF

and

Overview of Database Provisioning

I hope this helps.

Guy