Wow … that was a hard piece of work. Roy put a lot of effort into getting our Hands-On-Lab on OTN for download. We promised to have it available after OOW – or at least a description how to create it by yourself. And finally it’s there. Find it here:
A few important things to mention before you start the download:
- It’s a Virtual Box image
- You will need to install Oracle Virtual Box first – and please install also the VBox Extensions
- Your PC must have a 64-bit host operating system
- You need to enable Virtualization options in your computer’s BIOS
- You PC should have at least 4GB of RAM – having 8GB is very helpful
- A fast disk (SSD) will speed up things
- The instructions are available for download but are included in the download as well
- The lab will guide you through the following tasks:
- Upgrade an 11.2.0.4 database to Oracle 12.1.0.2
- Plug in this database into a 12.1.0.2 CDB
- Migrate an 11.2.0.4 database with Full Transportable Export into another PDB
- Unplug an 12.1.0.1 PDB and plug/upgrade it into an 12.1.0.2 CDB
You’ll find a picture as screen background inside the VBox image always giving you guidance about “what to accomplish” and “how to switch environments”.
Enjoy 🙂
–Mike
Tell Roy he rocks as that ova was a huge help. I sat through the VTS as well and it was well worth the time.
Thanks,
Alan
Thanks Mike and also Roy – good job!