Re: Install Oracle10g RAC on original Oracle9i RAC server with MC/Service Guard

From: Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:55:13 -0500
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Once you go to 10g, it is basically pointless to run 3rd party clusterware. It will integrate with 10g, but it really causes many more headaches than it solves.

Also, it is correct that you can only run one version of clusterware at a time.

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Leyi Zhang (Kamus) <kamusis_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi, Freek
>
> Thanks for your reply, but are you sure only one clusterware can run
> at the mean time?
> What I'm know is Oracle Clusterware can work with MC/Service Guard.
> Actually in our environment, MC/Service Guard has to be exists, since
> we are using RAW device instead of ASM, we have to use it to create
> Cluster VG (HP technologist tell me so).
>
> We are waiting for the 11.2.0.2 patchset released for HP-UX, maybe
> next year we would upgrade to 11gR2. You know, a lot of application
> testing has to be done before database upgrade. ;-)
>
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> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:51 PM, D'Hooge Freek <Freek.DHooge_at_uptime.be>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > You can only have 1 clusterware running at the time.
> > What you could try to do is to perform a rolling upgrade:
> http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/install.102/b14203/procstop.htm#BABFBBGE
> >
> > Any particular reason why you don't upgrade to the 11gR2 clusterware?
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >
> > Freek D'Hooge
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:
> oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Leyi Zhang (Kamus)
> > Sent: maandag 13 september 2010 16:39
> > To: oracle_l
> > Subject: Install Oracle10g RAC on original Oracle9i RAC server with
> MC/Service Guard
> >
> > Hi, lists
> >
> > We plan to implement an Oracle database upgrade work. Platform: HP-UX
> > PA-RISC 11i V1 (11.11),
> >
> > This is 2-nodes Oracle9.2.0.4 RAC with MC/Service Guard, sum(bytes)
> > from dba_segments is about 200G. To minimize database down time, we
> > are planing to install Oracle10gR2 RAC into new ORACLE_HOME while old
> > production 9.2.0.4 RAC is running, and using DBUA to upgrade whole
> > database after shutting down 9204 instance.
> >
> > I'm wonder is there anyone has such implementation experience, my concern
> is:
> > If new 10g Clusterware public IP (NIC interface) is the same as 9i
> > public IP, any problem? Or we have to use different NIC to complete
> > installation and change to the original one at the final stage?
> >
> > Any sharing is appreciated.
> >
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