ora.rhpserver

Introduction
Rapid Home Provisioning (RHP) represents a standard way for provisioning, patching and update at organizational level, in a unified manner, across all architectural layers of software infrastructure – Oracle databases and custom software.

Rapid Home Provisioning is a method of deploying software homes from single cluster where you create, store and manage templates of Oracle homes as images - called gold images - of Oracle software. The DBA can make a working copy of any gold image and then provision that working copy to any RHP Client in a data center.
RHP is installed as part of Grid Infrastructure. Oracle Clusterware manages the components that form the Rapid Home Provisioning Server. These components include the RHP server itself, Grid Naming Service (GNS) which is used to advertise the location of the RHP server, a VIP to support HA-NFS (required if there are any clients that you want to provision to - whether you use NFS storage for the workingcopies or not) and Oracle ASM Cluster File System (ACFS) which is used to store snapshots of the working copies.
The gold images represent an installed home, whether that is an Oracle Database software home or some custom software home. The gold image is stored in an Oracle Automatic Software Management Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS).
Metadata describing an installed home is stored as an image series in the Management Repository. The Management Repository (or Management Database MGMTDB) is created when installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure.

RHP: Rapid Home Provisioning Server - Minimum Requirement (Doc ID 2126710.1)