Re: Solaris 9 and 10 within same RAC Cluster

On 5 April 2011 06:07, Bobak, Mark <Mark.Bobak_at_proquest.com> wrote:

> Paul,
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> I wouldn’t want to run Solaris 9 and Solaris 10 boxes in the same cluster
> indefinitely, however, I think it’s a reasonable thing to do, for the
> purposes of a rolling upgrade.
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> In fact, Oracle says it’s supported, in Doc ID 220970.1:
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> “The Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters both support
> rolling upgrades of the *OS software*when the version of the Oracle
> Database is certified on both releases of the OS (and the OS is the same, no
> Linux and Windows or AIX and Solaris, or 32 and 64 bit etc.). This can apply
> a patch to the operating system, a patchset (such as EL4u4 to EL4u6) or a
> release (EL4 to EL5). Stay within a 24 hours of upgrade window and fully
> test this path as it's not possible for Oracle to test all these different
> paths and combinations. “
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> So, there you go.
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> -Mark
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> *From:* oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:
> oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] *On Behalf Of *Paul Barrett
> *Sent:* Monday, April 04, 2011 3:38 PM
> *To:* Subodh Deshpande
> *Cc:* oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> *Subject:* Re: Solaris 9 and 10 within same RAC Cluster
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> I asked because I saw someone posted on a metalink forum that it is
> possible. Thread: "Oracle 10g RAC to 11g RAC Upgrade on Solaris". My gut
> feeling is that it is not possible but I would have to test it out... so
> short of actually doing it, I wanted to know if anyone on the list ever did
> it before.
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> On Apr 4, 2011 2:25 PM, "Subodh Deshpande" <deshpande.subodh_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> are you saying you want to upgrade OS from solaris 9 to solaris 10.
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> All nodes in RAC should have same OS, you can not have one node running
> on 9 and another on 10.
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> thanks..subodh
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> On 4 April 2011 22:09, Paul Barrett <tinojam_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Is it possible to run Solaris 9 a...
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