This document discusses provisioning new pluggable databases in Oracle Database 12c. It describes four methods for provisioning new PDBs: creating a new PDB from the seed PDB; plugging a non-CDB into a CDB; cloning a PDB within the same CDB or into another CDB; and plugging an unplugged PDB into another CDB. Steps are provided for creating a new PDB from the seed using the FILE_NAME_CONVERT clause.