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Clone database using Oracle 12c CloudFS Copy-On-Write snapshot without multitenant feature

Clone database using Oracle 12c CloudFS Copy-On-Write snapshot without multitenant feature Three Goals:          1.         Time Saving                     :                Clone big database in a few minutes, not hours. 2.         Storage saving                                 :                Clone database using less than 1% of original database space 3.         License Cost saving          :                Achieve the two goals above without Oracle multitenant feature Solution: Use Oracle 12c CloudFS Copy-On-Write snapshot feature and manually create clone database without using pluggable database feature. Pre-requisite requirement                :                Oracle ACFS 12.1.   How to create ACFS is covered by another document. This POC was done on Oracle 12c RAC flexible cluster on RedHat Linux server vdclracdev01 Reference : The two Oracle documents below are about how to do this using multitenant feature. http://www.oracle.com/techne