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*    About the VMs     *
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Oracle Database 19c Primary and Physical Standby databases

The environment contains two Oracle VirtualBox appliances. They represent Oracle Database 19c Primary and Physical Standby databases.

DB Name: oradb
OS: Linux 7 (7.8)
CDB/non-CDB: CDB
RAC/non-RAC: non-RAC
ASM/ no ASM (Oracle restart): NO
Pluggable Databases: pdb1
Sample Schemas installed: YES
Primary hostname: srv1
Primary DB Unique name: oradb
Standby hostname: srv2
Standby DB Unique name: oradb_s2

Auto-startup script is configured in srv1
crontab job configured to delete archivelogs

The machines were built and tested using Oracle VirtualBox version 6.0.22

Passwords:
root password: baraka@2020
oracle password: baraka@2020
Database system user passwrods: oracle

To use the machines, in Oracle VirtualBox, go to File -> Import appliance. Import each machine.

Upload version: 1.0
Upload date: 4-Sept-2020

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* Recommended Actions Before Starting up the VM *
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Change the Adapter name in the Network Adapter 1 setting to match the network card in your environment.

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* How to Use the VMs *
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1. Extract the zip file
2. In Oracle VirtualBox, import the OVA file by clicking on File -> Import and then selecting the ova file. Do that for each file.
3. If you are using a VirtualBox of release later than 6.0.22, you need to update the Guest Additions in each node.

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* Actions Performed after VM installation *
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– Set SELINUX=permissive in /etc/selinux/config

– Disable firewall:
systemctl stop firewalld
systemctl disable firewalld
systemctl status firewalld

– set “UseDNS no” and “GSSAPIAuthentication no” in /etc/ssh/sshd_config (to fix the delay in the login to the system from Putty)

– disable automatic software updates:
systemctl status packagekit
systemctl stop packagekit
systemctl mask packagekit