Re: Cloning Oracle versus Installing from OUI

MVR, It is perfectly doable and in fact it is one of the good practice for large scale deployments. I have just implemented the CRS cloning (10gR2 RAC) for a customer (for large scale RAC deployments ) using a mixture of OUI , cloing and silent install scripts. I know few customers who deploy oracle as a package (install like a redhat RPM) and living happily with that.

Bottom line: It is technically possible and supported. However I would raise an SR and get an official blessings from OWS .

-Gopal

On 9/28/06, MVR <yoursraju007_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> All,
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> I proposed a plan to make a good working Oracle home(with all the
> patches installed) and making an image and using the same image for
> all other nodes with the same platform and hardware. The process is
> tar, untar them and to run clone.pl for the home on target node. This
> saves us lot of time(for installing 10g R2 using OUI). But my
> teammates are not okay with that stating that it may get us some
> problems. We have already cloned it for multiple boxes and ZERO
> issues. But still people are afraid to put that home in prod.
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> Any comments?
>
> Thanks
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