DRD use case

Maintenance (slide 2 of 3)

Active

Apply patches & products

sync

Modified clone

1.Original system image is active

2.Create a clone of the original system image (drd clone)

3.When complete, two copies of system image exist (drd status)

4.Modify inactive image to reach desired state

– install patches & products

(drd runcmd

swinstall)

 

5.When modification completes, have an unmodified original image and a modified clone

6.Synchronize files from the active image to the clone – password files, log files, etc. (drd sync)

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The orange lightning bolt identifies increased feature support for 11i v3; in this case, product installation on a clone is supported only on 11i v3, with patch installation supported on 11i v3 and 11i v2