The first production database in my company is just being upgraded from
9.2.0.8 to 11.2.0.2. It's a RAC, running on RH AS 2.1 (32bit) and OCFS,
being moved to RH 4.8, with OCFS2, RAC. That's the 1st step. The second
step will be to create a standby on 2 64bit nodes running RH 5.6 or RH
6.0, with ASM and get rid of that pesky OCFS and 32 bit OS. All of that
will be accomplished with 5 hours of downtime altogether. We're changing
OS version, DB version, architecture and SAN in the same migration. This
type of projects is why I love being a DBA.



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On Sat, 06 Aug 2011 20:53:14 +0000, Mladen Gogala wrote:

First step complete. All is well so far.



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On Sun, 07 Aug 2011 00:07:13 +0000, Mladen Gogala wrote:

HTMLDB doesn't work if there is no SCAN listener. I don't want SCAN, I
will have to cheat. fortunately, there is Apex listener. Oracle is
procreating more and more requirements for RAC. This thing SCAN is
useless and annoying as hell.



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On Sun, 07 Aug 2011 00:07:13 +0000, Mladen Gogala wrote:


Also, NetBackup 6.5 doesn't support Oracle 11.2. We needed to upgrade
backup software, too.



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Mladen:

# The first production database in my company is just being upgraded
from 9.2.0.8 to 11.2.0.2.

....

Good luck and have fun!

We are working on a 11.2 migration also ... starting to work on
getting ducks lined up.

No RAC here at all ... I ditched all that a while back. Like Moans
says "you probably don't need RAC" ...

We are going to be using ASM though which requires a separate grid
home from the oracle home. Just completed first setup testing on a
test machine of getting it all configured.

Putting the GI PSU 11.2.0.2.3 ( patchset update ) onto both homes is
also interesting.

Just because there is a 40 page README ( maybe more pages did not
count ) for the GI PSU ... you would not expect them to actually
document how to approach a standalone server would you now?

Some things like crsctl do not apparently work in a non clustered
configuration even though the doc tells you to run them ... nice eh?
So you get to fudge your way around *** Aka crsctl stop crs gives
CRS-4013: This command is not supported in a single-node
configuration. Of course one could open an SR with Oracle support so
that they could tell you to follow the README for the GI PSU. Oops
that's a closed infinite loop eh?

On 10.08.2011 13:58, John Hurley wrote:
That sounds scary. I wonder how Oracle's sales people justify the price
tags that they are holding up with stories like these in the wild - err
- public. Thanks for sharing!

Kind regards

robert

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On Aug 10, 9:15*am, Robert Klemme <shortcut... (AT) googlemail (DOT) com> wrote:
Direct attention away from question by selling consulting services, of
course.

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