Oracle Virtualization Templates for Oracle Database - Single Instance, Oracle Restart (SIHA) and Oracle RAC (Doc ID 1185244.1)

Last updated on AUGUST 24, 2023

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Purpose

This document will provide information about the latest Oracle Virtualization Templates for Oracle Database.

Read about Virtrualization and Oracle VM.
Read about Oracle Clusterware.
Read about Oracle Real Application Clusters.
Read the Oracle RAC on Oracle VM Technical Brief.
Read on using the Oracle Deploycluster tool with Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager (OLVM) [deployment guide].

The Oracle Virtualization Templates for Oracle Database provide a framework that fully automates the creation of a Single Instance, Oracle Restart (Single Instance/HA) or Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) configurations in an Oracle VM and Oracle KVM/OLVM environments. In a matter of minutes the versatile and powerful Oracle VM Templates for Oracle Database can be cloned into any number of VMs which could be deployed as a Single Instance, Oracle Restart (Single Instance/HA) or Oracle RAC of any number of nodes.
Detailed steps for installation and usage are in the PDF documents available in the templates archives and the OTN Home Page.

Scope

Using Oracle Virtualization Templates for Oracle Database are useful for a wide variety of audience like System admins, DBAs, application developers, beginners and advanced users.  The templates are:

• 100% debugged and polished! Not some 'reference' template.
• 100% self-contained, no need to glue together an OS with scripts, Oracle software, etc.
• Same template is used for production or testing
• Templates are offered both for Oracle VM 3.x / Oracle VM 2.x as well as Oracle KVM/OLVM, subject to product support (e.g. RAC, etc.)
• Latest RUs/PSUs/patches included and other recommended fixes
• It is possible to customize the installed patches using opatch pre/post deployment
• No install/build failures, always works!

Oracle Virtualization Database Templates Highlights

 NEW in 2022 Templates:

Updated 12.1, 12.2, 19c for Oracle VM (See tables below)

NEW in 2021 Templates:

OLVM: Oracle Linux 7.9 UEKR6 Update 2 (UEK R6U2): 19.12.0.0.210720 Templates Released!
OVM: Oracle Linux 7.9 UEK Release 6 Update 2 (UEK R6U2): 19.12.0.0.210720 and 12.2.0.1.210720 Templates Released!
OLVM: Oracle Linux 8.4 UEKR6 19.11.0.0.210420 Templates Released!
OLVM: Oracle Linux 7.9 UEKR6 Update 2 (UEK R6U2): 19.11.0.0.210420 Templates Released!
OVM: Oracle Linux 8.3 UEK6 19.11.0.0.210420 Templates Released!
OVM: Oracle Linux 7.9 UEK Release 6 Update 2 (UEK R6U2): 19.11.0.0.210420, 18.14.0.0.210420 and 12.2.0.1.210420 Templates Released!
OVM: Oracle Linux 6.10 UEK4: 12.1.0.2.210420 Templates Released!

NEW in 2020 Templates:

• Oracle Linux 7.9 UEK Release 6 Update 1 (UEK R6U1): 19.9.0.0.201020, 18.12.0.0.201020 and 12.2.0.1.201020 Templates Released!
  Oracle Linux 6.10 UEK4: 12.1.0.2.201020 Templates Released!
• Oracle Linux 7.8 UEK Release 5 Update 3 (UEK R5U3): 19.7.0.0.200414, 18.10.0.0.200414 and 12.2.0.1.200414 Templates Released!
• Oracle Linux 6.10 UEK4: 12.1.0.2.200414 Templates Released!

NEW in 2019 Templates:

• Oracle Linux 7.7 UEK Release 5 Update 2 (UEK R5U2): 19.5.0.0.191015, 18.8.0.0.191015 and 12.2.0.1.191015 Templates Released!
  Oracle Linux 6.10 UEK4: 12.1.0.2.191015 Templates Released!
• Oracle Linux 7.7 UEK Release 5 Update 2 (UEK R5U2): 19.4.0.0.190716, 18.7.0.0.190716 and 12.2.0.1.190716 Templates Released!
  Oracle Linux 6.10 UEK4: 12.1.0.2.190716 Templates Released!
• Oracle Linux 7.6 UEK Release 5 Update 2 (UEK R5U2): 19.3.1.0.0, 18.6.0.0.190416 and 12.2.0.1.190416 Templates Released!
• Oracle Linux 6.10 UEK4: 12.1.0.2.190416 Templates Released!

NEW in 2018 Templates:

• 18.4.0.0.181016 (Oracle Linux 7.5 UEK5), 12.2.0.1.181016 (Oracle Linux 7.5 UEK5), 12.1.0.2.181016 (Oracle Linux 6.10 UEK4) Templates released
• 12.2.0.1.180417, 12.1.0.2.180417, 11.2.0.1.0.180417 Templates released
• Latest Oracle Linux 7 Update 5 & Oracle Linux 6 Update 9 with UEK4 QU7 includes latest fixes (Spectre/Meltdown).

NEW in 2017 Templates:

• 12.2.0.1.0 & 12.2.0.1.170814 (RU1) Templates released (ASM on NAS support, same template supports EE & SE)
• Latest Oracle Linux 7 Update 4 & Oracle Linux 6 Update 9 both with UEK4 Update 5 and latest Oracle Database/Grid Infrastructure PSUs

NEW in 2016 Templates:

• Latest Kernel UEK4 (4.1.12) enabled by default
• SSH key setup supports rsa, dsa, ecdsa or ed25519

NEW in 2015 Templates:

• Release both Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition 2 template
• Deploycluster support for Oracle VM 3.3/3.4 and higher, released October 2015.
• Yum@Deploy support(11gR2 & 12c) - Allows running yum install/update during first boot/deployment and subsequent re-builds.
• Bundled Swingbench upgraded to 2.5.0.971
• Multi-Diskgroup support for Oracle ASM
• Support for multiplexed Controlfile & REDO logfiles
• Default kernel boot is Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK3) 3.8.13-118, default boot in HVM mode
• Oracle Linux 7, BTRFS & KSplice Ready!

NEW in 2013 Templates:

• Automation support for 12c features:
  • Oracle Flex Cluster and/or Flex ASM (including automation of add/remove N-number of Hub/Leaf nodes)
  • Creation/deletion of Container Database with optional N-number of Pluggable Databases
  • DB Express configuration for database
  • Support for a dedicated ASM Network Interface
  • Database creation inside an ACFS Filesystem
• Automation support for Single Instance & Oracle Restart (Formerly known as Single Instance/HA)
• Automation support for databases on local & shared filesystems
• Automation support for Admin Managed or Policy Manageddatabase creation
  • Including basic Server Pool creation (for Policy Managed)
• OS disk comes with the OSRevert utility: making switching rpm footprints easier
• Default kernel boot is Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK2) 2.6.39-400, seamless transition to HVM mode
• Deploycluster tool provides fully automated end-to-end Single Instance and Oracle Real Application Clusters deployments on Oracle VM 3.2 and below
  

All of the 11.2/12.1 templates further allow:

• Building N-node clusters, not just 2 or 4 nodes
• Mix and match OS (Oracle Linux 7, Oracle Linux 6 or Oracle Linux 5) and Oracle disks
• Support role separation or non-role separation installation
• The install can run as root or grid/oracle (with sudo configured on one node only)
• Supports RAC One Node, see <Note:1232802.1> and FAQs in PDF
• Fully automated network & disk setup, including directly from Dom0 (automated dom0 build)
• Fully automated add/remove N-nodes or instances
• Fully automated ACFS FS creation/removal
• Fully automated EM dbconsole creation/removal
• Allow running in non-English Guest VMs (German, Italian, etc.)

Basic understanding of Linux, OVM and Oracle Database and Oracle RAC is expected.

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