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 In this blogpost we will see the benefits of migration of workloads from OCVS to OCI Native. First lets understand the offerings of OCVS and OCI Native: OCVS Solution: Oracle Cloud VMware Solution (OCVS) provides a fully customer-controlled, native VMware environment hosted on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). It enables enterprises to seamlessly migrate and run VMware-based workloads in the cloud without refactoring, using the same tools, processes, and policies they use on-premises. OCVS offers high performance, enhanced security, and integration with OCI services, supporting hybrid and multi-cloud strategies while maintaining full compatibility with existing VMware operations. OCI Native Solution: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute provides scalable, high-performance virtual machines (VMs), bare metal servers, and containerized compute environments to run a wide range of workloads—from enterprise applications to cloud-native services. With flexible shapes, automatic sca...

This a step by step article for configuring oracle 12c RAC on Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.1. Following software's used for this deployment: 1) Oracle Virtual Box 2) Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.1 (64-Bit) 3) Oracle 12c Grid Infrastructure (64-Bit) 4) Oracle 12c Database Virtual machines configuration: I used windows DNS Server 2008 for resolving scan IP to simulate it with real world deployments. You can use a single entry of scan in /etc/hosts file for TEST deployments. The high level steps for deployment: (assuming virtual box - already Installed) 1) Create Virtual machines 2) Install Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.1 3) Configure additional Hardware required for RAC (SHARED STORAGE) 4) Clone virtual machine 5) Perform all OS pre-requisites 6) Install Oracle 12c Grid Infrastructure 7) Install Oracle 12c RDBMS  home 8) Create RAC database 1) Create Virtual Mahcine: Follow step by step screens for creation of virtual machines: ...