Chapter 1. Executive Summary
IT organizations face challenges of optimizing Oracle database environments to keep up with the ever increasing workload demands and evolving security risks. This reference architecture provides a step-by-step deployment procedure with the latest best practices to install and configure an Oracle Database 12c Release 2 with Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM). It is suited for system, storage, and database administrators deploying Oracle Database 12c Release 2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. It is intended to provide a Red Hat | Oracle reference architecture that focuses on the following tasks:
- Deploying Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c Release 2
- Deploying Oracle Database Software 12c Release 2
- Deploying an Oracle Database 12c Release 2 with shared iSCSI disks
- Using Oracle ASM disks with udev rules
- Securing the Oracle Database 12c Release 2 environment with SELinux

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