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Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning Overview

Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning is a software lifecycle management


method for provisioning and maintaining Oracle homes.

Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning (Oracle FPP) enables mass


deployment and maintenance of standard operating environments for
databases, clusters, and user-defined software types. With Oracle Fleet
Patching and Provisioning, you can also install clusters and provision,
patch, scale, and upgrade Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle Database
11g release 2 (11.2.0.4), and later. Additionally, you can provision
applications and middleware.

Note:

Starting with Oracle Grid Infrastructure 19c, the feature formerly known as
Rapid Home Provisioning (RHP) is now Oracle Fleet Patching and
Provisioning (Oracle FPP).

About Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning


Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning (FPP) is a service in Oracle Grid
Infrastructure.

Note:

 Oracle does not support Oracle Fleet Patching and


Provisioning on HP-UX or Windows operating systems.
 The Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning Server does not
manage operating system images.

You can use Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning in either of the
following modes:
 As a central server (Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning Server),
that stores and manages standardized images, called gold images.
You can deploy gold images to any number of nodes across a data
center. You can use the deployed homes to create new clusters and
databases, and patch, upgrade, and scale existing installations.
The server manages software homes on the cluster hosting the
Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning Server, itself, Oracle Fleet
Patching and Provisioning Clients, and can also manage installations
running Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g release 2 (11.2.0.3 and
11.2.0.4), 12c release 1 (12.1.0.2), and later releases. The server
can also manage installations running no grid infrastructure.
An Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning Server can provision new
installations and can manage existing installations without any
changes to the existing installations (such as no agent, daemon, or
configuration prerequisites). Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning
Servers also include capabilities for automatically sharing gold
images among peer Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning Servers
to support enterprises with geographically distributed data centers.
 As a client (Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning Client), that can
be managed from the central Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning
Server or directly by running commands on the Oracle Fleet
Patching and Provisioning Client, itself. As with the Oracle Fleet
Patching and Provisioning Server, the Oracle Fleet Patching and
Provisioning Client is a service built in to Oracle Grid Infrastructure
and is available with Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c release 2
(12.2.0.1), and later. The Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning
Client service can retrieve gold images from the Oracle Fleet
Patching and Provisioning Server, upload new images based on
policy, and apply maintenance operations to itself.
For patching operations, a third option is available with Oracle Database
and Oracle Grid Infrastructure 18c, and later. The procedures for updating
database and grid infrastructure homes have been modularized into
independent automatons that are included with Oracle Database and
Oracle Grid Infrastructure, and can be run locally without any central
Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning Server in the architecture. This
provides an immediate entry point to the capabilities of Oracle Fleet
Patching and Provisioning as soon as you bring up an Oracle Database or
cluster.

Note:

Combined Oracle FPP patching for Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle
Database is not supported for standalone configurations.

Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning


Advantages
Deploying Oracle software using Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning
has the following advantages:

 Ensures standardization and enables high degrees of automation


with gold images and managed lineage of deployed software.
 Minimizes downtime by deploying new homes as images (working
copies of gold images) out-of-place, without disrupting active
databases or clusters.
 Simplifies local maintenance operations by providing automatons
which are invoked with a simple, consistent API across database
versions and deployment models.
 Reduces maintenance risk with built-in validations and
a dry run mode to test the operations.
 Enables you to resume or restart the commands in the event of an
unforeseen issue, reducing the impact of maintenance operations.
 Minimizes and often eliminates the impact of patching and
upgrades, with features that include:
 Zero-downtime database upgrade with fully automated
upgrade, executed entirely within the deployment without
requiring any extra nodes or external storage.
 Adaptive management of database sessions and OJVM during
rolling patching.
 Options for management of consolidated deployments.
 The deployment and maintenance operations enable customizations
to include environment-specific actions into the automated
workflow.

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